In January 1970, President Richard Nixon signed the National Environmental Education Act, which framed the issue of ...

From AT&T to NASA, women working as computers performed the calculations that made modern science possible. In the early ...

In 1976, 14-year-old Chris Espinosa rode a moped to his job demonstrating computers made in Steve Jobs’s childhood home. The ...

Apple was founded on April 1, 1976, meaning the company is officially 50 years old as of today. To honor the occasion, we ...

In the early 1970s, the idea of an ordinary person owning a computer sounded absurd. Computers back then were more like ...

Apple would never have survived a decade without Steve Wozniak’s marvelous machine. This is part of our package about Apple’s 50th anniversary, read more here. When you think of Apple, you probably ...

BOZEMAN, Mont. — A computer designed at Montana State University landed on the moon last spring as part of ongoing space exploration research. The computer, called RadPC, is designed to withstand high ...

On October 6 1973, the Yom Kippur War – mainly involving Egypt, Syria and Israel –triggered one of the biggest energy crises of the 20th century. Eleven days later, several Arab members of the ...

We independently review everything we recommend. When you buy through our links, we may earn a commission. Learn more› By Kimber Streams Kimber Streams is a writer who has been covering laptops and ...

The Iran war has revived the specter of a 1970s bogeyman known as stagflation — a period of high inflation and miserable economic growth. A Dow Jones Company ...

Americans suffered a collective shock—to both their wallets and mindsets—when, in October 1973, oil-producing Arab states initiated an oil embargo of the United States and a few other countries for ...

Singer-songwriters ruled the 1970s. Musicians who’d come up through the coffeehouses and clubs of the folk scene were coming of age. Writers who’d cut their teeth churning out hits in Tin Pan Alley ...