Over at Royal Pingdom there’s a fascinating little picture history of computer storage from the year dot nearly up to the present day. Who knew that hard disks were once the size of a small car? Not ...

Those old enough to have encountered punch cards in their lifetime are probably glad to be rid of their extremely low data density and the propensity of tall stacks to tip over. But obsolete as they ...

(1) See loyalty punch card. (2) An early storage medium made of thin cardboard stock that held data as patterns of punched holes. Also called "punched" cards, each of the 80 or 96 columns held one ...

Credit: Maria Dryfhout/Shutterstock.com. This month, the U.S. Census Bureau undertakes the 24th national census, beginning with Census Day on April 1. Today's tools for data collection include the ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. In 1840, the English mathematician ...

Selling the idea to the Gates Foundation was a little like peddling computer punch cards to Microsoft. Sure, bed nets and bug sprays protect people from malaria. But tools that pre-date the Eisenhower ...

From humble beginnings as a recycler of computer punch cards, Allan Company, Baldwin Park, Calif., has grown steadily to become the largest paper recycler in the Golden State. When Steve Young began ...

curated by Darko Fritz artists: Compos 68 (Jan Baptist Bedaux, Jeroen Clausman and Arthur Veen), Michael Fahres, Lambert Meertens and Leo Geurts, Samuel Meyering, herman de vries, Victor Wentink ...

It has been 25 years since Elkhart County used a newfangled voting system. It had an auspicious debut before things went sour both locally and then nationally. The 1982 Elkhart County primary election ...

In an optimistic move, you grabbed a loyalty card before the first exercise class you took. Interestingly, no holes have been punched here, because you left the gym during the class’s warmup, when ...