For simple or complicated math calculations, pencil and paper, and perhaps a slide rule, were must-have supplies. I was ...

The Salt Lake Tribune reports a University of Utah associate discovered a rare 1973 UNIX V4 software tape, believed to be the ...

Above, The Enterprise headline Dec. 31, 1999 — there was no Enterprise on Jan. 1, 2000. But boy, did they do a bang-up job on the issue at hand, all about celebrations in Saranac Lake, Tupper Lake, ...

Remember the last weeks of 1999? The air was thick with anticipation and, for many, panic. Here in Central Texas, some people were stocking up on bottled water and canned goods like the end of the ...

From all the low-rise jeans to the chainmail tops, the 2000s were a wild time in fashion. Yet there may be no trend that better defines that lawless era than layering a dress over jeans. At the height ...

Yesterday, Tyla—exciting pop star, equally-exciting fashion star—was spotted touching down at an airport in Mumbai, India. Her off-duty outfit had all the makings of a great (and cozy) plane outfit: ...

The angst of nu metal is being discovered by Gen Z, but with digital eyes always looming, the ephemeral catharsis of collectively going mad is a thing of the past. Credit...Illustration by Trevor Shin ...

The whiteboard in Professor Mark Stehlik’s office at Carnegie Mellon University still has the details of what turned into a computer science program for high school students. Stehlik and colleague ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Imagine that someone gives you a list of five numbers: 1, 6, 21, 107, and—wait for it—47,176,870. Can you guess what comes next? If ...

Taco Bell is reaching into the back of its virtual pantry and pulling out five discontinued items from yesteryear, such as Cool Ranch Doritos Locos Tacos and Chili Cheese Burritos. The Irvine-based ...

Did you know that, between 1976 and 1978, Microsoft developed its own version of the BASIC programming language? It was initially called Altair BASIC before becoming Microsoft BASIC, and it was ...

Taco Bell is throwing its menu back to when “Say My Name” by Destiny’s Child was dominating the airwaves. Tex Mex-inspired chain just announced this year’s old-school offerings: the Decades Y2K Menu, ...