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Bell Labs: An Institute of Creative Technology

This week I finished the most recent book in my self-guided study of 20th century technology, namely The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation, by Jon Gertner. As the title implies, it’s a chronicle of research and development wing of AT&T, a history that lasts...

Confessions of an Admissions Mistake

A Brief History of Computing - Everything2.com

Really early computational devices The earliest computational devices were actually memory aids in the form of wet clay tablets or even pebbles organize...

'Boston Made': Authors chronicle Boston's history of innovation

In the 1970s, Email Was Special

In the 1970s, Email Was Special Gizmodo 2/9/2021 Matt Novak © Photo: Hulton Archive/Getty Images (Getty Images) Computers and magnetic tape storage at the U.S. Department of Justice circa 1973. What was the internet like in the 1970s? It was an incredibly small community of university researchers, government employees, military contractors, and more than a few spies. But those people all built and tinkered with the earliest technologies to create something that would transform the lives of everyone reading this message today. One of the most vital technologies to emerge from this period was electronic mail or “network mail” as it was known at the time—something we call email today. And while we may think of email as integral to our experience of the internet, it wasn’t always a given. Email had to be invented, but once it was, people loved it.