The Day the Music Died?
It really wasn’t the day that the music died, although it may have been the end of an era. It was the day that three of Rock and Roll’s young stars (Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and J.P. Richardson, the Big Bopper) were involved in an early morning plane crash on February 3, 1959, in Clear [...]
I Don’t Like Mondays
On Monday January 29, 1979 the day was starting as usual for Cleveland Elementary School in San Diego, California. Then all of a sudden shots rang out. They were coming from the house across the street. During the 6 hour shooting spree and standoff Principal Burton Wragg and head custodian Mike Suchar were killed. Eight [...]
Established: 1972
One may think that Email is a fairly new form of communications however it is credited to have been invented in 1972 by Ray Tomlinson who worked for Bolt Beranek and Newman as an ARPANET contractor. By chance he picked the @ symbol to denote sending messages from one computer to another, name-of-the-user@name-of-the-computer. The Hewlett-Packard [...]
Apple’s 1984
During the third quarter of Super Bowl XVIII a commercial aired. The commercial has been considered a masterpiece in advertising and it also introduced the Apple Macintosh Computer. The commercial alluded to George Orwell’s classic novel 1984 and featured Big Brother on a screen speaking to an audience of drones. In runs a young lady [...]
John Jacob Astor
The first John Jacob Astor was an early 19th century businessman who when he died on March 29, 1848 was considered the richest man in America. Astor was born in Waldorf, Germany and moved to London when he was 16. Astor fortune was due to the business of buying and selling furs. He heard that [...]
The Apple II Computer
On June 5, 1977 the Apple II computer went on sale. The retail price for this early personal computer was $1298 for one with 4KB of Ram. A higher end one with 48 KB of RAM listed for $2638. This was without a video display. The Apple II was Apple’s second computerI. The Apple I [...]
Kellogg is Born
Kellogg cereal was not born on April 7th, but the man who the cereal company takes its name was. Will Keith (W.K.) Kellogg was born on April 7, 1860. The Kellogg Company came by accident. W.K. Kellogg’s older brother John Harvey Kellogg ran the Battle Creek Sanitarium. He believed in a vegetarian diet, one that [...]
A Ride to the Top
Many of the things that we take for granted today were not long ago new. Others may be older than we think. When we walk onto an elevator many times we see the name Otis. And we know that it was made by the Otis Elevator Company The company was founded by Elisha Otis in [...]
6 Ways to a Greener Office
Use Reusable Items Use Mugs with advertising for coffee and water. Give each employee two mugs, one to use at their office workstation and another to use at home. When serving coffee to a client or prospective client give them a mug promoting your business to take with them. Read Then Print For some it [...]
What’s Your Home Page
Every internet browser allows the setting of a home page. While I’m sure there are many who use the default that is set by the browser, many have selected their favorite page as their home. Here area few suggestions. Search Many times when we open our browser we are going to search for something on [...]
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