Trivia
13 Pivotal Internet Moments That Forever Changed How We Live, Work and Play
From indexing the web to breaking it, here are the online moments that changed everything.
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11 min read
Oops, IOU? How the World's First Modern Credit Card Was Invented.
The scrappy entrepreneur who created the credit card, as legend has it, might have experienced an embarrassing situation that led to inspiration.
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5 min read
The Seriously Unsexy Origins of the Graham Cracker
The dry, plain crackers were invented to cool certain urges. You know the ones.
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3 min read
How an Industrial Oops Led This Gunk to Become a Stretchy Smash-Hit Toy
The surprising story of how Silly Putty accidentally sprang from a wartime dilemma.
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6 min read
The Fasten-ating History of the Humble Zipper
In which we unzip the up-and-down origins of the little mechanical wonder that keeps your pants from falling down.
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5 min read