(YouTube link) Mickey Mouse made his public debut in the cartoon Steamboat Willie on November 18, 1928 -81 years ago! The character appeared in Plane Crazy a few months earlier, but the Walt Disney Company doesn't cou...

UCLA's Leonard Kleinrock remembers sending the first message over the Internet 40 years ago this week; the first word sent host-to-host was supposed to be "login," but the receiving computer crashed after the first two l...

Our very own Stacy Conradt wrote a neat article ov...  ...at mental_floss about 10 people who died on their birthdays (full circle!) Here's one that particularly inter...  ...icture). He died on his (and his brother’s) birthday