Ernie Smith

The PC industry first landed on the FCC’s radar not for the computers themselves, but for the electrical noise they emitted. Blame the CB radio.

How a decision sparked by the death of one of the world’s biggest pop stars knocked the Billboard 200 out of alignment.

Handheld calculators saw a massive amount of innovation in the 1970s—thanks in no small part to LCD screens and a primitive form of typography.

One of the best-known icons of modern society is a classic example of a symbol—it’s easy to spot, but hard to explain. Who came up with it?

Corporate motivation isn’t enough when it comes to digital preservation. Here’s a case for creating a National Register of Historic Places for websites.