This is the ninth, and last, in a series of articles looking back over ‘Geek Facts’. Today’s topic is ‘Geek Firsts’. Each day last year, I posted a Geek Fact for that day. A Geek Fact is something geeky that Read more
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Mar
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Feb
This is the eighth in a series of articles looking back over ‘Geek Facts’. Today’s topic is the ‘Geekiest Person’. Each day last year, I posted a Geek Fact for that day. A Geek Fact is something geeky that happened Read more
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Feb
This is the seventh in a series of articles looking back over ‘Geek Facts’. Today’s topic is the ‘Geekiest Decade’. Each day last year, I posted a Geek Fact for that day. A Geek Fact is something geeky that happened Read more
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Feb
This is the sixth in a series of articles looking back over ‘Geek Facts’. Today’s topic is the Geekiest Year. Each day last year, I posted a Geek Fact for that day. A Geek Fact is something geeky that happened Read more
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Feb
This is the fifth in a series about Geek Facts. Today’s topic is the Geekiest Month. Each day last year, I posted a Geek Fact for that day. A Geek Fact is something geeky that happened on that day in Read more
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This is the fourth in a series about Geek Facts. Today’s topic is the Geekiest Week. Each day last year, I posted a Geek Fact for that day. A Geek Fact is something geeky that happened on that day in Read more
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This is the third in a series about Geek Facts. Today’s topic is the Geekiest Day. Each day last year, I posted a Geek Fact for that day. A Geek Fact is something geeky that happened on that day in Read more
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Jan
This is the second in a series about Geek Facts. Today’s topic is, well, the most prevalent topic of the Geek Facts. Each day last year, I posted a Geek Fact for that day. A Geek Fact is something geeky Read more
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Jan
Each day last year, I posted a Geek Fact for that day. A Geek Fact is something geeky that happened on that day in history. I have to say that it was a pretty interesting exercise. I learned many things Read more
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Dec
In 1974, Popular Electronics released its January issue, featuring the Altair 8800 computer on its cover. Two years later, Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry Systems (MITS) announced that it had shipped over ten thousand Altair 8800 kits worldwide thus far. Learn Read more
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Dec
In 1924, astronomer Edwin Hubble announced that Andromeda was another galactic system outside the Milky Way. Originally thought to be a nebulae, Edwin Hubble was able to resolve images that showed individual stars. Learn more at http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aso/databank/entries/dp24ga.html.
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In 1987, Cosmonaut Yuri Romanenko ended his record 326 day mission orbiting the Earth in the Mir space station. Yuri Romanenko’s stay in space broke the previous Soviet record of 237 days and the U.S. space endurance record of 87 Read more