What Was Tech Journalism Like In 1876?

March 8, 2012Erik Kain

journalism was quite a lot different back when the telephone was the big story. Rebecca Rosen explains: On this day in 1876, the U.S. Patent Office awarded Alexander Graham Bell a patent for his “improvement in telegraphy,” or, as we now know it, the telephone (above). This anniversary seems like as good a day as […]

Erik Kain

Erik writes about video games at Forbes and politics at Mother Jones. He's the editor of The League though he hasn't written much here lately. He can be found occasionally composing 140 character cultural analysis on Twitter.