As with every great scholar birthday, quirky holiday or honoring a moment in history Google has always featured these celebrations by modifying their homepage search logo. Today what some say is officially Google’s birthday, an array of colored balls organized like the logo with hint of interactive. The slightest movement of your cursor near the more »

Those of us old enough to remember Aol. (or AOL before re-branding), today marks a milestone for a service that brought e-mail, web browsing and introduced to the masses instant messaging by celebrating 25 years of service. Rise to popularity for the time period was quite remarkable considering home computing was not widely popular and more »

On January, 26th, 1926 there was a demo of a new device called a “television.” John Logie Baird gave the public a demo in his lab in London.

The television has come a long way in 83 years. Once a device owned by a few, by the year 2000, 98% of the United States households owned at least one television. We’ve seen a lot of progress in the past few years with the widespread adoption of high definition televisions with a new aspect ratio.

Continue reading to take a look at a graphic made by Sony detailing television’s history. Of course, they toot their own horn by mentioning their stuff, but Sony TVs are pretty sweet.

Contrary to popular belief, the first laser wasn’t really reverse-engineered from Megatron of the Transformers. It was actually created by a guy named Theodore Maiman by shining a high-power flash lamp on a ruby rod with silver-coated surfaces. And if he hadn’t made the first laser work on May 16, 1960 at the Hughes Research more »

Alltel, thanks to the two-year anniversary of MyCircle is giving a little something back to the loyal and long-term customers. Sadly all of the customers will not be getting the goods, as this offer applies only to users who are on the MyCircle 10 or MyCircle 20 plan. Those lucky customers who are celebrating two more »