Apple Computer hires Tony Fadell in early 2001 and assigns him a team of designers, programmers and hardware engineers to develop a new music player called the iPod. Fadell’s idea is to take an MP3 player, build a music sale service to complement it, and build a company around it. Apple CEO Steve Jobs is [...]

How does a web interface designer determine in which order to place the “OK” and “Cancel” buttons in their web applications? One of my favorite blogs, Konigi, talks about it.

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When I introduced the computer history quotes that I began publishing recently, I mentioned that I participated in the Texaco Star Academic Challenge. I think it was my Sophomore or Junior year at Scarborough Senior High School in northwest Houston. I can’t remember her name, but one of the History/Social Studies teachers was the faculty [...]

The modern programming language Ada is named in 1979 to honor the first known computer programmer Augusta Ada Byron. Born in 1815, Augusta Ada Byron developed a computer program to run on Charles Babbage’s Analytical Machine computer. The program was designed to compute the mathematical sequence known as Bernoulli numbers.
- The “Computer History Daily Quote”
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“He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.”
- Albert Einstein
- http://www.quoteworld.org/quotes/4094

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