The auto glass industry has expanded from its humble origins in 1913, when a very basic windshield was first installed in assembly-line vehicles, to a global sector with annual sales of $19 billion. Windshields shelter vehicle occupants from wind and flying debris like dust, insects, and rocks, and provide an…
The latest timeline highlights feature changes to Google’s entry into the website platform space, as well as it’s “origin story”. This timeline includes interesting factoids such as the fact Google Sites started out as JotSpot. On February 28, 2008, Google Sites was unveiled using the JotSpot technology for free with…
The Internet (or internet) is the global system of interconnected computer networks that uses the Internet protocol suite (TCP/IP) to communicate between networks and devices. It is a network of networks that consists of private, public, academic, business, and government networks of local to global scope, linked by a broad…
Ethereum is the second-largest cryptocurrency platform by market capitalization, behind Bitcoin. It is a decentralized open source blockchain featuring smart contract functionality. Ether is the cryptocurrency generated by Ethereum miners as a reward for computations performed to secure the blockchain. Ethereum serves as the platform for over 260,000 different cryptocurrencies,…
Histowiki launches a new timeline, History of Plumbing. That’s right, all the plumbers out there who have found this site now have a page dedicated to their industry. Highlights from this timeline: 1738 – The first valve-type flush toilet invented by J.F. Brondel. In that same year, John Harington…
Welcome to the History Of Credit Cards Corrections page. Please help us improve the timeline. This is the page to help us get the history right. Please recommend in the comment section below any helpful additions, subtractions, edits etc. that can help make this timeline accurate, fair, and comprehensive. The…