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The Golden Gate Bridge, or the engineer the plaque forgot original ↗

13 Aug 2026

MapQuest, then Google Maps: the web learns where it is original ↗

13 Aug 2026

Matter 1.0, or how the smart lock stopped choosing sides original ↗

13 Aug 2026

The last Olympiad, 393 CE original ↗

12 Aug 2026

Peter Henlein's pocket watch, or how time learned to travel original ↗

12 Aug 2026

The Nike Air sole: Frank Rudy's twenty-fourth pitch original ↗

12 Aug 2026

Apple Intelligence, or the phone that learned to write back original ↗

12 Aug 2026

A large shop in Tahtakale: Istanbul's first coffeehouse original ↗

11 Aug 2026

Pitman's shorthand, or writing faster than speech original ↗

11 Aug 2026

Backpropagation, 1986: the algorithm that revived neural networks original ↗

11 Aug 2026

Python: born in an empty office over Christmas 1989 original ↗

11 Aug 2026

Ford's moving assembly line: 12.5 hours to 93 minutes original ↗

10 Aug 2026

The Mother of All Demos, or the ninety minutes nobody was quite ready for original ↗

10 Aug 2026

Kubernetes: the helmsman Google almost didn't ship original ↗

10 Aug 2026

Visual Studio Code: how a failing browser editor became the one everyone uses original ↗

10 Aug 2026

The Federal Reserve, or the duck hunt that never happened original ↗

7 Aug 2026

Diffie, Hellman, and the key two strangers can share original ↗

7 Aug 2026

Half-Life, or how Valve put the story inside the corridors original ↗

7 Aug 2026

Al-Idrisi's silver map, or how a Norman king bought the world original ↗

6 Aug 2026

Harley-Davidson and the ten-by-fifteen shed original ↗

6 Aug 2026

No springs: Emil Henriksson's disc detainer lock, Helsinki, 1907 original ↗

6 Aug 2026

Sydney's Iron Lung original ↗

6 Aug 2026

Seiko Astron: the wristwatch that rewrote time original ↗

5 Aug 2026

The waffle iron that launched Nike original ↗

5 Aug 2026

The phone learns to think for itself original ↗

5 Aug 2026

Braille, or how six dots in two columns gave the blind a language original ↗

4 Aug 2026

The espresso machine Moriondo kept to himself original ↗

4 Aug 2026

Cyc: Douglas Lenat's thirty-year project to hand-write common sense original ↗

4 Aug 2026

Perl: what Larry Wall built when nothing else was quite right original ↗

4 Aug 2026

Ford Model T: the car for the great multitude original ↗

3 Aug 2026

The IBM System/360, or how IBM sold a computer it hadn't finished building original ↗

3 Aug 2026

The article that named microservices original ↗

3 Aug 2026

Atom: the hackable text editor that accidentally built a platform original ↗

3 Aug 2026

Not worth a Continental original ↗

31 Jul 2026

Shannon's 1949 paper, and the price of a perfect cipher original ↗

31 Jul 2026

GoldenEye 007: the movie tie-in that built the console shooter original ↗

31 Jul 2026

The Forth Bridge: steel, cantilevers, and a lesson from the Tay original ↗

30 Jul 2026

Springfield, 1901: the birth of Indian Motorcycle original ↗

30 Jul 2026

Navstar 1 and the clock that tells you where to turn original ↗

30 Jul 2026

The key in your phone: digital car keys and Apple HomeKey original ↗

30 Jul 2026

Pankration: the sport with one rule (well, two)original ↗

29 Jul 2026

Chopines, or the politics of walking tall original ↗

29 Jul 2026

Essen's Flying Bedstead and the death of the astronomical second original ↗

29 Jul 2026

Samsung bets $1,980 on a crease original ↗

29 Jul 2026

Gutenberg's press: forty-two lines that changed Europe original ↗

28 Jul 2026

Tea at the bottom of Boston Harbour original ↗

28 Jul 2026

MYCIN, or the physician who never saw a patient original ↗

28 Jul 2026

C++: the language Simula made necessary and C made possible original ↗

28 Jul 2026

The Curved Dash Oldsmobile: America's first mass-produced car original ↗

27 Jul 2026

UNIVAC predicts an Eisenhower landslide original ↗

27 Jul 2026

Sublime Text, or the text editor that left Google to reinvent itself original ↗

27 Jul 2026

Docker: the container that shipped the machine original ↗

27 Jul 2026

Newton's guinea, or how a mathematician's arithmetic error invented the gold standard original ↗

24 Jul 2026

Colossus, and the operator who handed Bletchley Park a crowbar original ↗

24 Jul 2026

The PlayStation: how humiliation in Chicago gave Sony its most profitable product original ↗

24 Jul 2026

The Garabit Viaduct, or the bridge that proved the Tower original ↗

23 Jul 2026

Hildebrand & Wolfmüller: the first motorcycle you could buy original ↗

23 Jul 2026

Landsat 1: the satellite that corrected the charts original ↗

23 Jul 2026

The August lock, or the year the key went digital original ↗

23 Jul 2026

The pentathlon at Olympia, and a jump no one has explained original ↗

22 Jul 2026

The Dassler brothers' shoe factory, and the feud that split a town original ↗

22 Jul 2026

The quartz clock and the wobbling Earth original ↗

22 Jul 2026

There's an app for that: Apple's App Store and the invention of the platform economy original ↗

22 Jul 2026

SHRDLU, 1970: the blocks world where a machine first appeared to understand original ↗

21 Jul 2026

Paris–Rouen, 1894: the race that decided what a car should be original ↗

20 Jul 2026

The Manchester Baby and the first stored program original ↗

20 Jul 2026

TextMate: the grammar every editor learned to speak original ↗

20 Jul 2026

The machine that learned to break itself original ↗

20 Jul 2026

The Bank of England, or the twelve-day loan that never ended original ↗

17 Jul 2026

Turing's Bombe: the machine that solved by elimination original ↗

17 Jul 2026

Myst and the CD-ROM that changed who played games original ↗

17 Jul 2026

The Brooklyn Bridge, or how Washington Roebling directed the world's longest span from a sickroom original ↗

16 Jul 2026

Aerial photogrammetry: the camera that replaced the surveyor original ↗

16 Jul 2026

The transponder key, or how Ford put the lock inside the engine original ↗

16 Jul 2026

The first Olympic footrace, and the cook who won it original ↗

15 Jul 2026

The wristwatch goes to war original ↗

15 Jul 2026

The Converse All-Star, or what forty years on the road built original ↗

15 Jul 2026

The G1, or what happens when you give a phone OS away for free original ↗

15 Jul 2026

Hangul, or the alphabet that came with a user manual original ↗

14 Jul 2026

Minsky and Papert draw the line a perceptron cannot cross original ↗

14 Jul 2026

SQL, or the language that outlived one of its authors original ↗

14 Jul 2026

The Duryea Motor Wagon: the first American gasoline automobile original ↗

13 Jul 2026

The transistor: a razor blade, some gold foil, and the death of the vacuum tube original ↗

13 Jul 2026

IntelliJ IDEA: the IDE that knew what you meant original ↗

13 Jul 2026

Amazon's API mandate original ↗

13 Jul 2026

The Amsterdam Wisselbank, or where money learned to live in a ledger original ↗

10 Jul 2026

Marian Rejewski breaks Enigma original ↗

10 Jul 2026

DOOM: the midnight upload that crashed a university server and founded a genre original ↗

10 Jul 2026

The Menai Suspension Bridge, or how Telford hung a road from iron chains original ↗

9 Jul 2026

The Daimler Reitwagen original ↗

9 Jul 2026

Beck's Underground map: the diagram that replaced the map original ↗

9 Jul 2026

The hotel cardkey, invented because someone forgot to fix a lock original ↗

9 Jul 2026

The bull-leaper of Knossos original ↗

8 Jul 2026

The Waltham watch factory, or how time stopped being a luxury original ↗

8 Jul 2026

The shoe that earned its name in silence original ↗

8 Jul 2026

Three products in a pocket: the original iPhone original ↗

8 Jul 2026

Carolingian minuscule, or how a monk from York gave us lowercase letters original ↗

7 Jul 2026

John McCarthy builds LISP, and AI gets its first native language original ↗

7 Jul 2026

Bertha Benz and the first road trip original ↗

6 Jul 2026

The report that named an architecture and killed a patent original ↗

6 Jul 2026