In 2005, IBM sold the business that defined the personal computer for $1.75 billion. The company that built the machine ended up owning almost nothing about it. The decision that guaranteed that outcome was made in a hurry,...

Hay vídeos que no solo se ven… se sienten. Hoy el canal recibe un regalo muy especial: la colaboración de un seguidor que ha querido compartir con todos nosotros una auténtica cápsula del tiempo. En este vídeo podrás disfrutar de...

From the 1920s to the 1950s, thousands of US shoe stores used shoe-fitting fluoroscopes, X-ray machines that let customers, often children, watch their toe bones wiggle inside new shoes. By the 1940s there were about 10,000 of them....

In 2016, hackers targeted Bangladesh Bank and sent dozens of fraudulent transfer requests through the SWIFT banking network. About $81 million was successfully transferred, while hundreds of millions more were stopped. But one tiny spelling mistake in a $20...

Automatic elevators existed by around 1900, yet many riders still wanted a human operator. In September 1945 a strike by about 15,000 New York building service workers stranded roughly 1.5 million office workers and pushed buildings toward automation....

Today, "Google" is not just a company; it is a verb used by billions every day. But did you know that the name of the world's most powerful search engine was born out of a simple typo? Watch...

In August 2012, Knight Capital deployed new code to 8 production servers — but missed one. That single untouched server ran deprecated dead code tied to a reused flag, triggering thousands of reckless market orders per second. 45...

In 1992, the world's most famous OS professor told a 22-year-old student his kernel was obsolete, badly designed, and would never be portable. The student was Linus Torvalds. 34 years later, the professor's own design — the microkernel...

Leo Fender ran a radio repair shop in Fullerton, California. He designed the Telecaster, the Precision Bass and the Stratocaster, but he never learned to play the guitar. Musicians tested his prototypes for him. #LeoFender #Stratocaster #Telecaster #GuitarHistory...

# How the iPhone Changed the Game and Left BlackBerry Behind 📱🍎 In 2007, BlackBerry was one of the biggest names in mobile phones. Its physical keyboards and email-focused devices were essential tools for professionals around the world. ⌨️📧 Then...

Welcome to the channel, where we explore fascinating stories about history, geography, countries, people, businesses, and the events that shaped our world. A smartphone used to be something almost anyone could afford. Today, some phones cost more than a...

YOU USE NETFLIX, YOUTUBE AND ZOOM… BUT YOU PROBABLY NEVER HEARD HIS NAME. Meet Arun Netravali, a scientist from Udupi, Karnataka, whose work at Bell Labs helped advance modern video compression. His research on motion-compensated video coding helped computers send...

How Slow Were 2000s PCs? #WindowsME #RetroComputing How slow were 2000s PCs compared to today? 🖥️🐌 Take a quick trip back to the Windows ME era and see what computing was like with slow processors, limited RAM, and mechanical...

Around 1900, about a third of US motor vehicles were electric, and Ferdinand Porsche's very first car, the 1898 P1, was fully electric. Cheap Texas oil, the Ford Model T and the electric starter pushed them off the...

Microsoft is shutting down Publisher in October 2026 — 35 years after it launched as the clear underdog against PageMaker and QuarkXPress. The real question isn't why it's dying now. It's why it took this long. ☕ Support Macro...