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Back to the future with artificial intelligence
More than just an ancient legendary hero and a new AI tool: Aeneas is a symbol of how intelligently linking the past and the future can reveal new insights.
Caught in the data network
Der Mechanismus von Antikythera: von antiker Datenverarbeitung zu noch komplexerer Daten-Gegenwart.
Mobile Printers
Less is more. Printing in the year 2025.
Of BASIC and bytes: the history of digitization
Back to the roots! Join us on a discovery tour to the roots of the digital world. It all started quite simply: once upon a time there was a zero and a one ...
Today I'm going to the Prompt Library
Collected knowledge helps everyone, even artificial intelligence.
Editing meets technology.
Spelling isn't that important, specialized software proofreads. Is that enough? No! Good texts don't write themselves.
When the e-letter disappeared
A swan song to a letter that never really arrived and will not be missed - despite the puffery of the swan song headlines.
Preliminary stages of search engines
The search for information is a human need. You could also call it curiosity.
How long does a letter take to arrive?
Who still gets letters? Business communication is evolving, but sometimes it still plods along as it did in stagecoach days.
Digital awakening of the ancient world
The Romans really did leave their mark everywhere. In Germania, and now also in the exciting digitization of history.
When women were coding
Antonia Maury and Williamina Fleming are almost forgotten names. High time to pay tribute to Human Computers and their pioneering work.