Tied Up Today

My tie today features IBM "AT" desktop computers, which were sold from 1984-1987. The letters "AT" stood for Advanced Te...

 On 20 November 1985, Microsoft introduced " Windows 1.01 ," the first graphical user interface designed for IBM personal computer...

On this date in 1935, William Coolidge received a patent for the cathode ray tube, the major display element for televisions, oscilloscopes...

Thirty-eight years ago today, International Business Machines introduced the first personal computer , with the operating system PC-DOS 1.0....

A somewhat-convoluted connection for a computer tie: 1984 should probably be known as the foundational year for personal computers, because ...

I have no special event for 20 April, so I'll recap some history to justify wearing this computer-themed tie, "because it's tim...

Next year maybe I'll find another great occasion for 29 October. This time I'm celebrating the usual Internet tidbit (or should I sa...

This is the day when the net-magic all began, 44 years ago, with the first message successfully delivered from one host computer to another....

Happy Birthday, Computer Mouse! Thirty years ago today, Xerox PARC introduced the mobile input device with a tail. Thirty years from now, co...

I usually resist being categorized as a geek. But on "Embrace Your Inner Geek Day" I think it is appropriate to recall the days in...

Today was another day to be a computer geek, distributing information about how Information Technology fits into the general EKU project to ...