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Category Archives: Tech History
50th Anniversary of CES
The first CES took place June 25-28, 1967, and I wrote numerous (admittedly similar) pieces about it for: TWICE – CES Turns 50 Dealerscope – CES: The Summer of Love and the First CES Huffington Post – CES: Previewing the Future … Continue reading
Posted in CES, Huffington Post, Tech History, TWICE
Tagged Admiral, CES, Grateful Dead, Hitachi, Jack Wayman, Jefferson Airplane, Jimi Hendrix, Monterey Pop Festival, Panasonic, Philco, Philco-Ford, RCA, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, Sharp, Sony, The Beatles, The Who, Toshiba, Wink Martindale, Zenith
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Where Old TVs Go to Live
Here’s my story on Huff Post all about my visit to the Early TV Museum in Hilliard, OH.
Posted in Tech History, TV/4K/UHD
Tagged Admiral, Charles Francis Jenkins, CRT, David Sarnoff, DuMont, Early TV Museum, GE, John Logie Baird, Milton Berle, Philco, Philo T. Farnsworth, Red Skelton, TV, Zenith
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The Day Radio Died
The day the U.S. entered World War I a century ago, April 6, 1917, Woodrow Wilson also ended all amateur radio broadcasting in America for more than two years. I told this story on the CTA i3 Blog, which you … Continue reading
Top 10 Gadgets of the Last 50 Years
As part of the CES 50th anniversary commemoration, in my role as newly-minted historian for the Consumer Technology Association (CTA, the industry and lobbying group who produce CES), I helped collect around three dozen historically significant gadgets for display. … Continue reading
Posted in Apple, CES, Huffington Post, Tech History
Tagged 8-track, Apple, Beatles, CES, Diamond Rio, GPS, iPhone, iPod, Magellan, Magnavox, MITS Altair 8800, Motorola, Odyssey, Panasonic, plasma, RCA, SelectaVision, Sony, TiVo, VCR, VHS, Walkman
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Welcome to TV’s 5th Wave
A piece exploring the historical waves of country-dominated TV suppliers over the last 50 years from the U.S. to Europe to Japan to Korea and now, maybe China? – for Digital Technology Consulting. Read on here.
Happy 125th Birthday, David Sarnoff (David Who?)
It is so frustrating that people even within the consumer electronics industry don’t know who David Sarnoff is. I took the opportunity of his 125th birthday (Feb. 27) to explore Sarnoff’s unparalleled impact on technology for a huge chunk of … Continue reading
Posted in re/code, Tech History
Tagged ABC, David Sarnoff, Dwight Eisnehower, Henry Ford, NBC, Philo T. Farnsworth, RCA, Steve Jobs, television, Titanic
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Happy Birthday, Thomas Edison (Nikola Tesla Fans Exempted)
February 11 is Thomas Edison’s birthday, and in this year’s commemoration I report on the sudden surge in Edison vs. Nikola Tesla for re/code.
Posted in re/code, Tech History
Tagged incandescent light, light bulb, motion pictures, Nikola Tesla, photograph, Thomas Edison, war of the currents
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The Top 12 Technologies the Year eBay Was Born
eBay was born in 1995, and their editorial folks asked me to ruminate on the technologies that were prevalent that year. You can read the interesting state of 1995 technology here.
Posted in eBay, Tech History
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The History of DVD
There is a great deal of anticipation – in the industry, at least – of the next-gen video disc, Ultra HD Blu-ray. UHD Blu-ray is, of course, the proposed successor of Blu-ray, which itself was the HD successor to DVD. DVD … Continue reading
Do You Believe in Miracles? The History of HDTV
We are currently going through a second next-gen TV (r)evolution, from HDTV (2K) to UHD (4K) – and maybe even 8K. Much about this softer transition reminds me of the messy transition to HDTV back in the mid-1990s. In 2003, … Continue reading