Decades

Snake

1997

Programmed in 1997 by Taneli Armanto of Nokia and introduced as a pre-loaded game on the Nokia 6110. The player must keep the snake from colliding with both other obstacles...

Trans engineer democratizes chip design

1978

Fired from IBM after disclosing her gender transition, Lynn Conway went on to help democratize chip design at Xerox Palo Alto Research Center in the “VLSI revolution.” Very...

First mobile phone call

1973

Did you know the first mobile phone call was a troll? In 1973, Martin Cooper, an engineer at Motorola, used his prototype of the DynaTAC 8000x (the "brick phone") to call...