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Friday, April 4, 2025
Captain Kirk’s communicator inspired Cooper’s vision
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@Mark Ollig Southwestern Bell launched its mobile telephone service (MTS) June 17, 1946, in St. Louis, MO. Using a centralized radio network...
Friday, March 28, 2025
SA-4: groundwork for Apollo’s ‘giant leap’
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@Mark Ollig The Saturn project was begun Aug. 15, 1958, by the Army Ballistic Missile Agency (ABMA) to develop heavy-lift launch vehicles. A...
Friday, March 21, 2025
Ranger 9’s lunar impact
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@Mark Ollig The Soviet Union’s Luna 2 became the first spacecraft from Earth to impact the moon Sept. 14, 1959. It was not equipped with ca...
Thursday, March 13, 2025
Remember ping and nslookup?
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@Mark Ollig The ping command tests a remote computer’s connectivity by sending a small data packet and measuring the response time. Mike Muu...
Friday, March 7, 2025
Alexander Bell’s phone freed dad from the Pony Express
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@Mark Ollig The telephone revolutionized global communication and reshaped the world. Controversy still exists over who actually invented th...
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