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It wasn’t until March 1980 that Osborne approached engineer Lee Felsenstein with his idea. Like Steve Jobs, Felsenstein was a member of the HomeBrew Computer Club and an ex-Intel engineer. Osborne proposed that a company create affordable, portable computers with installed software. And he wanted Felsenstein to develop the hardware.
We recently published a post detailing a selection of ecommerce trends predicted to dominate the landscape in 2021. Outlined in brief below, you’ll find several additional trends we’re expecting to…
In 1994, Haartsen took on a project related to indoor wireless systems and attempted to find a way to enable short-range radio connections. He eventually developed this system, which became the daily Bluetooth technology.
In 1971, Baer and Sanders Associates filed the first-ever video game patent, eventually granted in 1973. The patent held the legal monopoly on any product that included a regular TV with circuits capable of producing and controlling dots on the screen.
The Turing Machine was ground-breaking because of its simplicity. Because it was clear about what it could and could not compute, it is still considered the most powerful machine in the world. Any modern computing system as powerful as Turing Complete is called Turing Complete.
Online shopping, or e-commerce, is precisely what it sounds like—buying and selling services via the Internet. You might have looked at the title of this post and thought, wait - we didn’t have the internet in 1982. That's true, but it doesn’t mean e-commerce wasn’t possible.
2020 brought about one of the most dramatic shifts in the ecommerce landscape since the advent of online retail. The unfortunate and completely unforeseen events of the year spurred an…
The time has come for us to once again share a few interesting and important facts and figures regarding the world of digital marketing. This time, there are snippets in…
Joseph Marie Charles, known as Jacquard, might not be a name that springs to mind when you think of early computers, particularly when you consider that he was born in Lyon, France, in 1752. Jacquard’s innovative loom engineering led to the technological revolution of the entire textile industry.
