The result is the next step in the development of Unix, and in this era of spiralling software complexity and bloat, it's time to examine it afresh and see if the geniuses who invented Unix didn't ...

Berners-Lee invented the WWW, which is what most think of when they ... but true tech enthusiasts have long worshipped at the altar of UNIX, which Thompson had a large hand in developing back in the ...

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There are good reasons why this wasn't the case with Unix – it was being designed and built at the same time as local area networking was being invented. UNIX Fourth Edition, the first version ...

It is widely agreed, for instance, that William Shockley, John Bardeen and Walter Brattain invented the first transistor in 1947. Such inventions and discoveries were based on research conducted ...

James Goodfellow invented the automated cash machine but received just a £10 bonus The world's first ATM was unveiled 50 years ago today but the inventor of the bank cash machine has been a ...

Who invented Bitcoin? That question has become a captivating mystery for the digital age along the lines of whatever happened to D.B. Cooper or who was Deep Throat in the Watergate scandal.

Hard hats are the team headgear of working-class America — the people who built the United States with their bare hands. The people who still build the USA today. Tip your safety cap to Edward W ...

In fact, the design for the first tablet PC was set out in 1968, long before most of the technologies necessary to build it were even invented. That design was the Dynabook, and its author was ...

But, believe it or not, waterbeds weren't actually invented to make bedtime bouncier. They were intended to help people get better sleep. Waterbeds, as we know them, were invented in 1968 ...

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Discover how Epic founder and CEO Judy Faulkner paved the way for modern interoperability in the late 1990s, allowing physicians to access charts from home.