BBC Celebrates 90 Years Of Innovation By Asking 'Where Next?'
The BBC has become iconic in British culture and worldwide media. To celebrate over 90 years of innovation, they have launched a new campaign telling the story of broadcasting, engineering and technological progress since 1922.
The 60-second launch film shows a timeline throughout the Beeb's broadcasting history, using archive footage of highlight significant milestones and moments in television. Combine this with a mixture of animation techniques and an original musical composition formed from non-instrumental sounds, including finger-tapping, footsteps, heavy-breathing & singing, and you have something that sums up the corporation rather nicely.
"The BBC is innovating for everyone and we hope this powerful untold story will capture the imagination of audiences and make them wonder…'where next?'" Philip Almond, Director of Marketing and Audiences said.
'The WITCH.' World's Oldest Digital Computer Resurrected
After a three-year restoration project at The National Museum of Computing, the 61 year old Harwell Dekatron (aka WITCH) computer has been successfully rebooted, becoming the world's oldest original working digital computer.
How Memes Occur And Spread Online
Rickrolling, The Success Kid and The Trololo guy. Not only are they subject to 'Cat-breaded Taylor Swifting' parody on South Park; but they appear within the viral public space without much public knowledge as to how they got there.
The History Of Animated GIFs
Ever wandered where the craze began that led to animated images of Nigel Thornberry as Disney princesses in your Tumblr feed? Look no further than the Animated GIFs: The Birth of a Medium, a rather in-depth and hugely informative six and a half minutes of the history behind some of the strangest imagery on the internet.
Infographic: A History of Western Typefaces
Google shows us the evolution of search
Google posted a blog a couple days ago taking users for a peek 'under the hood' of the mechanics of its search engine: talking about the origins, improvements and the future of search, all from what started as a research project in 1996.
Infographic of the day: The History of Digital Storage
Infographic of the day: The History of Beer
Infographic of the day: A Costume for every era
Struggling with what to wear for Halloween? Your choice of attire to Halloween at Rock City being a brain-teaser? Facing a writers block-esque sensation of selecting appropriate costume for the Lincoln Halloween weekend befuddling you? We'd like to help! Here's a costume for every era of history all the way up to the 2010s, courtesy of Halloween express.