tech history
From Sci-Fi to Reality: How GPS-Enabled Smartwatches Entered the Mainstream
From The Jetsons in the 1960s to Power Rangers in the 1990s, variations of smartwatches have been part of pop culture for decades. In the late 80s and early 90s, companies like Casio, Epson, and Seiko manufactured watches with features like keyboards, data transfer, and internal memory to store text and calendars. However, when GPS […]
Old Reliable: A History of MySQL
Imagine the Internet without Facebook, Twitter, or Wikipedia — impossible, right? All three of these platforms (as well as countless other platforms, including YouTube, LinkedIn, PayPal, and WordPress) were developed with MySQL, an open source relational database management system (RDBMS). Fundamental to the architecture of the modern Internet but rarely acknowledged outside of development circles, MySQL […]