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  • Cave paintingIn January 2026, researchers announced a hand stencil in Muna Island that dates to at least 67,800 years old. This finding now holds the title of the oldest…
  • InternetIn the 1960s, computer scientists began developing systems for time-sharing of computer resources. F. J. Corbató and his team at MIT published The Compatible…
  • TelecommunicationsIn 1849, Paul Julius Reuter launched a pigeon service to fly stock prices between Aachen and Brussels. This operation ran for one year until the gap in the…
  • Information AgeIn 1947, a team at Bell Labs in New Jersey created the first working transistor. John Bardeen and Walter Houser Brattain built this germanium-based…