We can still see it in action: in 1536, an Italian merchant, Francesco Lapi, wrote from Seville to Rome, pricing wine at 70 ...

The keyboard that gave us the standardised layout on both sides of the Atlantic, with its quintessential 100% form factor and ...

The # has a name you’d never guess. Developed for touch-tone telephones in 1968, that little hex is called an octothorpe.

However, it wasn’t until July 6, 1785 that the Continental Congress established the dollar as the official currency of the United States: the first step towards creating a national monetary system.