Antonio Meucci
Antonio Meucci. Antonio Meucci Florence April 13 1808 – October 18 1889 was an Italian born inventor who developed a form of voice communication apparatus in 1857. Many believe that he should be credited with the invention of the telephone i.e. e..
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Closed-circuit television camera
CCTV cameras can produce images or recordings for surveillance purposes and can be either video cameras or digital stills cameras.The graphic for a CCTV Camera. Early Development and Demand for Closed circuit television systems . . Before the i..
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Early IBM disk storage
The IBM 350 RAMAC was introduced in 1956 and was the world's first disk drive. This unit is being restored at the Computer History Museum 50 years later. The invention of magnetic disk storage pioneered by IBM in the 1950s was a critical componen..
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Internet pornography
Internet pornography is pornography that is distributed via the Internet primarily via websites peer to peer file sharing or Usenet newsgroups. While pornography had been traded over the Internet since the 1980s it was the invention of the World ..
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Internet protocol suite
The Internet protocol suite is the set of communications protocols that implement the protocol stack on which the Internet and most commercial networks run. It has also been referred to as the TCPIP protocol suite which is named after two of the ..
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InvisiClues
InvisiClues were hint booklets sold by Infocom to help players solve puzzles in their interactive fiction computer games. Before Infocom's games exploded in popularity players could request hints by mail and receive a type written sheet in respon..
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Jefferson disk
Jefferson's disk cipher The Jefferson disk or wheel cypher as Jefferson named it is a cipher system using 26 wheels each with the letters of the alphabet arranged randomly around them. First invented by Thomas Jefferson in 1795 it did not become ..
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Lulu Blooker Prize
Lulu Blooker Prize is a literary award for "Blooks" books based on blogs inaugurated in 2006 to coincide with the 450th anniversary of Gutenberg's invention of moveable type. It is sponsored by Lulu.com a print on demand publisher and the name is..
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Prototype (disambiguation)
Look up Prototype in Wiktionary the free dictionary. A prototype is something that is representative of a category of things. This french word comes from latin prototypus and means :"the first type of". Usually used in industry to label the first..
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Steampunk
For the comic book see Steampunk comics. Steampunk is a subgenre of fantasy and speculative fiction which came into prominence in the 1980s and early 1990s. The term denotes works set in an era or world where steam power is still widely used—usua..
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Steve Wozniak
Stephan Gary "Woz" Wozniak born August 11 1950 in San Jose California is an American computer engineer and the co founder of Apple Computer now Apple Inc. with Steve Jobs. His inventions and machines are credited with contributing greatly to the ..
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Tim Berners-Lee
Sir Timothy John Berners Lee OM KBE FRS FREng FRSA born June 8 1955 is an English developer who invented the World Wide Web in March 1989. With the help of Robert Cailliau and a young student staff at CERN he implemented his invention in 1990 wit..
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Victorian Internet
The Victorian Internet is a term coined in the late 20th century to describe advanced 19th century telecommunications technologies such as the telegraph and pneumatic tubes. The idea embedded in the phrase is that instantaneous global communicati..
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