When we post to a group chat or talk to an AI chatbot, we don't think about how these technologies came to be. We take it for ...
While we all brag about how fast social media travels, it wasn’t long ago when the fastest communication were wires strewn across the county. There were attempts as early as 1826 to create the ...
In the mid-1850s, Bloomington found itself hurtling into the machine age. The first railroads arrived in May and October of 1853 (the Illinois Central and what would become the Chicago & Alton ...
It was goodbye for "hello girls" in Fort Wayne a century ago when switchboards were replaced May 30, 1925, with an automatic telephone system. The cutover was made by the Home Telephone and Telegraph ...