From the rise of credit cards and the first computer modems to the birth of microchips, video games, Lego, and even ...

Was the world's first computer invented over bourbon, under a painting of a nude woman, after midnight at Rock Island's Hunter's Club? Kirwan Cox, a documentary filmmaker from Montreal, Canada, thinks ...

Late one evening, UCLA graduate student Charley Kline sat in front of a refrigerator-sized computer and sent the message "lo" to a rack of computers operated by systems engineer Bill Duvall at the ...