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August 2026

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How did a stray calico cat, handed a stationmaster's cap at the unstaffed end of a dying Japanese branch line, lift its ridership by 17 per cent and generate an estimated 1.1 billion yen for the local economy?

By How It Works · Aug 5, 2026

When you type bbc.com, the invisible DNS lookup that may end in a nearby cache or climb from one of 13 named root-server authorities through .com to the site's authoritative server, all before the browser has an IP address and can begin opening the page

By How It Works · Aug 4, 2026

How did one incorrect command input during a routine debugging task in February 2017 knock a large slice of the internet offline for about four hours?

By How It Works · Aug 4, 2026

How did one music video expose YouTube’s 32-bit ceiling at 2,147,483,647 views in late 2014 without actually breaking the counter?

By Make Tech Easier Editorial Team · Aug 3, 2026

Bluetooth was named after a 10th-century Viking king who united Denmark and Norway — the logo is his initials in Nordic runes, and Ericsson's engineers picked it in 1997 as a placeholder that stuck

By How It Works · Aug 3, 2026