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Printing office, c1600.Printing office, c1600. On the left compositors are at work setting up text using letters from a 'case' in front of them. In the centre background type is being inked ready to be printed on to paper in a flatbed screwjack press at centre right. Paper is hung up to allow ink to dry before being stacked in a pile by a boy at centre front. A master printer in a fur-lined gown supervises the enterprise. From Nova reperta by Joannes Stradanus (Jan van der Straet). (Antwerp, c1600). (Photo by Ann Ronan Pictures/Print Collector/Getty Images)

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Printing Press

When Was the Printing Press Invented? No one knows when the first printing press was invented or who invented it, but the oldest known printed text originated in China during the first millennium A.D. The Diamond Sutra, a Buddhist book from Dunhuang, China from around 868 A.D. during the Tang Dynasty, is said to be […]

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Nintendo game consoles In Japan circa 1992

Video Game History

The Early Days Though video games are found today in homes worldwide, they actually got their start in the research labs of scientists. In 1952, for instance, British professor A.S. Douglas created OXO, also known as noughts and crosses or a tic-tac-toe, as part of his doctoral dissertation at the University of Cambridge. And in […]

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The Jonestown Radio Network: How Jim Jones Spread His Message Of Death

Chilling audiotapes tell the story of the Jonestown massacre.

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Why It Took 17 Years to Catch the Unabomber

After a long, desperate search, it would be Ted Kaczynski’s own words that would lead to his capture.

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Steve Jobs Originally Envisioned the iPhone as Mostly a Phone

The origin story of the first iPhone reveals that Jobs was just trying to make a really cool phone.

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Zachary Quinto Breaks Down Aliens, Superhumans and Artificial Intelligence

Zachary Quinto looks into the plausibility of interplanetary life, otherworldly strength and robotics with the capacity for reasoning.

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First U.S. ATM opens for business

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1998

President Bill Clinton signs the Digital Millennium Copyright Act into law

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