In an Internet age when no one is truly anonymous, I recall the days of Internet Relay Chat (IRC), which offered all the fun of communication on the Internet without the fear of handing your entire life over to unknown and often malicious parties.
One of the ways we track typhoons today is through weather satellites, which bring some form of predictability to weather patterns and allow us to plan accordingly to reduce damage and casualties caused by typhoons. But who made this possible, and what did it take to accomplish this? My research led me to the Television Infrared Observation Satellite (TIROS-1), also known as TIROS-A, which was the first weather satellite in existence.
One of the methods libraries use to classify and organize books is the Dewey Decimal System. Who made this method of searching for books in the library, and why is it so integral to our educational experience?
Phonebooks were once a great repository of information to find anyone and anything, but the Internet has largely taken its place. The biggest book in your house may be long gone, but you can now find all that data online.
Pan Am was one of the first international airlines in the world and truly stretched the limits of going anywhere you wanted — if you had the money, that is.