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The Sony Walkman

February 11, 2025

Revolutionizing Music Consumption: While the Walkman wasn’t the very first portable music player, it was the one that truly captured the public’s imagination. Sony’s brilliance lay not in creating a new technology, but in recognizing a shift in how people wanted to consume…
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The rise of IBM

February 11, 2025

From Punch Cards to Global Tech Giant: IBM’s journey is marked by its ability to adapt and innovate through various technological changes. Beginning with basic tabulating machines that utilized punch cards, they played a crucial role in helping businesses automate data processing, which…
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A Story of The Birth of Cloud Computing by Friyad

February 10, 2025

Nowadays we don’t have to worry about hosting an application. But, how did it become possible? After the Dot-com Bubble burst in the early 2000s, many companies, like Pets.com, shut down. But, in this challenging time, Amazon managed to survive and grow up.…
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From Passion to Profession: My Journey in Tech & Design

February 10, 2025

My name is Geoffrey, and my journey into graphic design and web development started in 2022. As a Computer Science student, I have always been passionate about technology, but I wanted to explore the creative side of it as well. That’s when I…
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My 3 Biggest Failures as a Software Developer by Adam Hughes

February 6, 2025

As programmers, we all know the story of the rockstar developer. She started coding young and had her first profitable website by age 11. College at 16; LLC at 17; billionaire at 23. We love these stories, these heroes; they inspire us with…
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The Science Behind Viral Apps (and How to Build One) by Josiah Humphrey

February 6, 2025

Despite a combined 5 million apps currently available for download on Google’s Play Store and Apple’s App Store, smartphone users allocate approximately 85% of their total usage time to 5 apps or fewer. Plus, nearly 4 out 5 users never use an app again 72 hours after first installing…
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From Rejection to Revolution: The WhatsApp Story

February 4, 2025

Let me share the inspiring short story of Brian Acton, the co-founder of WhatsApp, which highlights resilience, vision, and innovation in the tech world. In 2009, Brian Acton was an experienced software engineer with a solid background at Yahoo. After leaving Yahoo, he…
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