In late April of 1968, a computer conference in Atlantic City, N.J., got off to a rocky start. A strike by telephone operators prevented exhibitors from linking their terminals to off-site computers, ...

Wall panel from the 1971 Manfred Mohr solo exhibition "Computer Graphics - Une Esthétique Programmée," various inks on paper, 30.51 x 110.83 (photo by the author) The most commanding visual in Manfred ...

The Living Computers Museum celebrates modern computers with a wide range of technology from the 1960s to now. Executive Director Lath Carlson shows us some of the museum's historic pieces like like ...

In the 1960s, computer science students didn’t program behind a computer screen. Instead, they wrote their programs on paper and then sent them to be processed by a computer. As a result, said ...

Back in the 1960s, you couldn’t go on the internet to look at porn or play mini-golf. Instead you had to use this thing some once called imagination. This guy had a really nice father back in the day ...

In the early 1960s, Fernando Corbató helped deploy the first known computer password. He acknowledges the password's flaws -- there seems to be a major breach each month -- and the public's ...

Back in the early '60s, computer dating was a pretty new idea. Only a handful of services existed and they used massive computers — the size of an entire room — to calculate compatibility. But John ...

An early computer program built in the 1960s has beaten the viral AI chatbot ChatGPT at the Turing test, designed to differentiate humans from artificial intelligence. Researchers from UC San Diego in ...

In 2013, the artist Aram Bartholl installed a massive, red upside-down teardrop in Kassel, Germany. It was designed to look like a pin from Google Maps. While Google Maps is a digital representation ...

Researchers have successfully revived "ELIZA," the world's first chatbot, utilizing original computer code that had been forgotten for nearly 60 years. Found in dusty printouts within the MIT archives ...

The Internal Revenue Service is running on a 1960s computer system. Funding from the Inflation Reduction Act is helping the agency upgrade. If you asked for an extension on last year’s taxes, the bad ...