JR: Old twitter news e-mail from February 2008 - looking through e-mail from 2008 in my toledotalk.com account. this one is interesting: From: "Biz Stone" news@twitter.com Tue, February 26, 2008 9:26 pm. We haven't sent out a monthly email update since November of last year. We're excited ... more>>
- Jun 18, 2014 - #socialmedia #microblogging #history

JR: 2013 mayoral election results in Toledo and Perrysburg - (from my ToledoTalk.com post) Both cities held mayoral elections in November 2013. Summary: most residents don't give a damn. Toledo Elections results - vote count: Mike Bell 21,536 D. Michael Collins 28,002 49,538 votes cast. Wikipedia:... more>> 1 min read
- Apr 16, 2014 - #toledo #perrysburg #politics #history #blog_jr

JR: Lost Peninsula, Turtle Island, and the Toledo War - Interesting nuggets of info about the nooks and crannies of western Lake Erie near Toledo, Ohio. (My Apr 10, 2014 comment in a ToledoTalk.com thread.) Lost Peninsula is located in Michigan. With wide interpretation of this thread, I conclude th... more>> 3 min read
- Apr 14, 2014 - #toledo #lakeerie #history #blog_jr

JR: Computer industry inventor and thinker Douglas Engelbart dies - July 2013 - Augmenting Human Intellect Douglas Doug Engelbart, a legendary American inventor and computing icon who invented the computer mouse and helped develop much of the modern PC user interface, passed away last night, according to family sources.... more>> 3 min read
- Mar 27, 2014 - #technology #history #blog_jr

JR: History of Hypertext - On July 2, 2013, I began reading a used book that I bought five to eight years ago. The book is titled "HyperText and HyperMedia" by Jakob Nielsen of useit.com fame. The book, however, was published in 1990. The book discusses hypertext history and a... more>> 1 min read
- Mar 27, 2014 - #web #history #technology #blog_jr

JR: Another Facebook contribution to PHP - #todo finish editing It's possible that nothing fires up a fierce debate among computing programming geeks more than a discussion of the pros and cons of the PHP programming language. PHP may be the favorite language to hate, yet it continues to be... more>> 11 min read
- Mar 26, 2014 - #todo #programming #php #history #blog_jr

JR: Toledo and WiFi - A blast from the past: 2007 - Toledo Talk - Toledo Wi-Fi Debate - pros and cons Excerpt: Next-gen wireless technology is "right around the corner," which could make WiFi irrelevant. From the July 2007 Toronto Star article referenced in the 2... more>> 1 min read
- Mar 19, 2014 - #technology #toledo #history

JR: Top tech products from the past 20 years - Dec 17, 2013 - WSJ - Top Products in Two Decades of Tech Reviews - Walt Mossberg on the products that changed the digital industry 1. Newton MessagePad (1993) 2. Netscape Navigator (1994) 3. Windows 95 (1995) 4. The Palm Pilot (1997) 5. Google... more>>
- Mar 03, 2014 - #history #technology #blog_jr

JR: Toledo Neighborhoods - Dozens of neighborhood names exist in Toledo. Some are well-known and well-defined while others maybe obscure. Some neighborhood boundaries overlap. Related: Feb 2014 - WTOL confuses Olde Towne and Old West End neighborhoods in shooting story A... more>> 1 min read
- Mar 03, 2014 - #toledo #history #blog_jr

JR: Ohio Weather History - Christmas 1983 Blizzard and Cold - Source: Christmas of 1983 was the coldest Christmas ever with blizzard conditions across northeast Ohio and northwest Pennsylvania. The combination of the arctic cold temperatures and the wide open Great Lakes set the stage for the development of ... more>> 4 min read
- Jan 08, 2014 - #ohio #weather #history

JR: When did the Internet and the Web begin - Today, it's acceptable to use the terms "Internet" and "Web" interchangeably, although technically, they are dramatically different. Simple explanation: Internet - is the network Web (HTTP) - is a "program" that runs over the network Many othe... more>> 7 min read
- Dec 05, 2013 - #history #web #internet #technology #blog_jr

JR: My early introduction to Twitter - Like many people, I first learned about Twitter from news released during the March 2007 SXSW conference. Twitter launched in 2006, but I don't think I heard about it then. I don't remember. I could have read something about it in 2006 and glossed ov... more>> 4 min read
- Oct 19, 2013 - #socialmedia #twitter #technology #history #messaging #blog_jr

JR: Geeks excited about new products - Sep 20, 2013 qz.com story Apple's iOS 7 includes a surprise: a ticket to the next generation of the internet The photo in the story shows an excited consumer after buying a new iPhone. Some things never change. 2013 1995 #technology - #histo... more>>
- Oct 08, 2013 - #technology #history #humor #photo

JR: Aug 14, 2013 is the 10-year anniversary of the eastern U.S. power outage - Aug 14, 2003 - Toledo Talk - Eastern U.S. power outage Here in west Toledo, we had a strange power drain and outage at about 4:15 pm. The local AM radio stations, 1230, 1370, 1470, went off the air, and at 4:50 they are still off. Some of the local... more>> 4 min read
- Oct 08, 2013 - #energy #history #blog_jr

JR: 2009 - 40 Year Anniversary of the Apollo 11 Lunar Landing - (This content is copied from a July 2009 ToledoTalk.com thread.) Two Northwest Ohio residents played key roles in this historic event. Wikipedia: Apollo 11 Smithsonian: Apollo 11 Lunar and Planetary Institute: Apollo 11 Mission Boston Globe's 'B... more>> 3 min read
- Sep 08, 2013 - #history #science #space #blog_jr