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- Jul 22, 2026 The Apollo guidance computer that landed astronauts on the Moon ran on 64 kilobytes of memory, and its… By Make Tech Easier Editorial
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- Jul 21, 2026 Voyager 1 is still transmitting from more than 25 billion kilometres away, powered by less than 250… By Make Tech Easier Editorial
- Jul 20, 2026 In September 1947, engineers at Harvard pulled a moth from a relay inside the Mark II computer, taped it… By Make Tech Easier Editorial
- Jun 15, 2026 When Sony shipped the first Walkman in 1979, chairman Akio Morita insisted on a second headphone jack… By Make Tech Easier Editorial
- Jun 12, 2026 Russia still custom-builds the Soyuz return seats for ISS crew members using plaster casts taken weeks… By Make Tech Easier Editorial
- Jun 11, 2026 The "CrackBerry" nickname stuck for a reason By Make Tech Easier Editorial
- Jun 10, 2026 In 1843, Ada Lovelace described a brass-and-punched-card engine that could act on symbols as well as… By Make Tech Easier Editorial
- Jun 9, 2026 ARPANET sent its first message on 29 October 1969 from a lab at UCLA to a machine at Stanford, and the… By Make Tech Easier Editorial
- Jun 9, 2026 In 1995, Microsoft shipped a cartoon-house interface called Bob, led by Melinda French, who married Bill… By Make Tech Easier Editorial
- Jun 9, 2026 The Greenland shark grows about one centimetre a year, does not reach sexual maturity until around age… By Make Tech Easier Editorial
- Jun 9, 2026 When Apple shipped iOS 12 in June 2018, a small feature called Screen Time slipped onto every iPhone… By Make Tech Easier Editorial
- Jun 9, 2026 When NASA lost contact with the IMAGE satellite in 2005, an amateur radio operator in Canada named Scott… By Make Tech Easier Editorial
- Jun 9, 2026 The original iPhone Steve Jobs unveiled in January 2007 could not record video, could not copy and paste… By Make Tech Easier Editorial
- Jun 8, 2026 In 1965, Joe Sutter’s Boeing team began shaping the 747 around a future they thought would belong to… By Make Tech Easier Editorial
- Jun 8, 2026 Apple’s original 1984 Macintosh keyboard had no arrow keys, no function keys, and no numeric pad because… By Make Tech Easier Editorial
- Jun 8, 2026 When the SS Great Eastern laid the first working transatlantic telegraph cable in 1866, a message that… By Make Tech Easier Editorial
- Jun 8, 2026 Masahiro Hara and Denso engineers built the QR code in 1994 to help Toyota suppliers scan car parts from… By Make Tech Easier Editorial