I wonder whether it is a coincidence that so many interesting markers of technological advancement happened on Valentine’s Day.<\/p>\n
On Valentine’s Day in 1876, Elisha Gray filed for a patent on his invention of the telephone. So did another guy.<\/p>\n
On Valentine’s Day in 1899, the United States officially switched over to voting by machine. Things haven’t been the same since.<\/p>\n
On Valentine’s Day in 1924, IBM was born.<\/p>\n
On Valentine’s Day in 1990, the Voyager I spacecraft made history by taking a photo of our little planet from very very far away<\/a>.<\/p>\n On Valentine’s Day in 2000, one of our earth spacecrafts started orbiting an asteroid for the first time ever.<\/p>\n On Valentine’s Day in 2005, a certain popular video sharing website was launched. I’ll let you guess.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I wonder whether it is a coincidence that so many interesting markers of technological advancement happened on Valentine’s Day. On Valentine’s Day in 1876, Elisha Gray filed for a patent on his invention of the telephone. So did another guy. On Valentine’s Day in 1899, the United States officially switched over to voting by machine. … Continue reading “Valentines to technology”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24109"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24109"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24109\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24110,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24109\/revisions\/24110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}