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History: 5MB Hard Disk from 1956

April 12th, 2007

Did you know that hard disk were the size of cargo container when it first comes out? Yeah, the picture above is taken in the year 1956. Disks with multi-million byte capacity have been used since 1956, long before there were standard binary prefixes.

[via Techeblog]

History: Cynosphere the Dog Powered Tricycle.

February 6th, 2007

Animal powered transportation, the Cynosphere. In the year 1875, this tricycle was built in France, it was powered by two dogs. The development of this weird vehicle soon stopped when The Society for the Protection thought it was cruel.

[via Neatorama]