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For many, it seems as British as fish and chips and holidays by the seaside, but you might be surprised to learn that bingo history dates back over 450 years to Italy. The first recorded form of the game, called Lo Giuoco del Lotto d’Italia, was introduced after the unification of the country in 153 ...

Geek

Doctor Who Science Fiction Fans: Travel Through Time [Infographic]

Diana Adams

It's hard to believe there have been 792 total episodes of Doctor Who between 1963 and 2013. Of course, it wasn't on television all those years. It was cancelled in 1989 and then brought back again in 2005. It's the longest running science fiction show in television history. It even beat out Star Tr ...

Social Media History Started Years Before You Think It Did [Chart]

Diana Adams

My first experience ever with social media was on IRC in about year 2000. It makes me laugh when I think about how it was considered rude back then to talk to more than one person at a time. Everyone did it anyway, but if you accidentally typed the wrong thing in the wrong window, you were busted. T ...

50 Years Of Sci-Fi Interfaces & What They Predicted [Infographic]

How many times have you watched a science fiction movie and thought, "User interfaces doesn't look like that!" I would guess more than once, right? Would you be surprised if I told you that the sci-fi interfaces on the silver screen actually spawned what we are using today, so why wouldn't they look ...

The History Of Programming Languages [Infographic]

Did you know there are over 1.2 million programmers in the United States? That's a lot of people pushing code each and every day. No wonder the Internet's innovation level is so high. The multifaceted programming languages available today allow for pretty much anything to be created online or offlin ...

Video Game Evolution: From Pong To WoW [Infographic]

When the personal computer was introduced to us back in the day, all of us were mesmerized by the optimization it allowed. The computer was meant to make computation and writing easier. But with innovation comes inspiration and creativity, and that soon led to people starting to create video games. ...

YouTube Sensations: Where Are They Now? [Infographic]

The stunning truth about YouTube is that it has become an entertainment outlet that could rival even the cinema - maybe not in the experience, but definitely in the entertainment value. As a matter fact, YouTube probably surpasses any other media when it comes to that. There have been plenty of YouT ...

Get Early Access To Facebook’s New Timeline

Sida Li

On March 7th, Facebook held a press conference to announce their redesigned page layout and news feed. It represents their biggest overhaul since the Timeline was introduced in late 2011. Facebook is currently accepting requests from those who would like to get early access to the new layout. If you ...

iOS Version Timeline: Milestones Throughout The Years [Infographic]

It's funny to me how we blast Apple for not being innovative anymore. For a company that has introduced 9 new hardware devices and 51 total iOS updates in five and a half years, they are certainly not getting credit for what they do. Apple is a proactive company, and one that is way more innovative ...

The Search Engine Evolution Timeline [Infographic]

For a while, the Internet was just one giant document storage center. There was no optimized way to search for what you were looking for, and the Internet itself was sluggish, at best. When search engines started to become available to us, things changed significantly. The evolution of the Internet ...

The Ultimate History Of Facebook [Infographic]

I guess we have gone a few rounds when it comes to putting Facebook under the eye of a microscope. The public is constantly scrutinizing this global phenomenon looking for flaws, fails and ways to make other social networking services overtake their impressive success. That has always been the case ...

Cost & Tech Evolution Of RAM & Processors [Infographic]

It's easy to get blinded by the speed at which things become cheap once they are widely adapted into our world. The fact that one gigabyte of RAM cost $128,000 in 1988 is as mind-boggling as the thought of human kind sending a group of settlers to Mars. The price of different technologies is getting ...

Design

15 Years Of Apple Website History [Slideshow]