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Just ask the people of Yap, writes Dr Karl.</span><span class="tags"><br> <strong>Subjects: </strong><a href="/science/tag/browse.htm?tag=business-economics-and-finance">business-economics-and-finance</a>, <a href="/science/tag/browse.htm?tag=information-and-communication">information-and-communication</a>, <a href="/science/tag/browse.htm?tag=internet">internet</a>, <a href="/science/tag/browse.htm?tag=computers-and-technology">computers-and-technology</a>, <a href="/science/tag/browse.htm?tag=internet">internet</a>, <a href="/science/tag/browse.htm?tag=mathematics">mathematics</a>, <a href="/science/tag/browse.htm?tag=greatmomentsinscience">greatmomentsinscience</a>, <a href="/science/tag/browse.htm?tag=drkarl">drkarl</a>, <a href="/science/tag/browse.htm?tag=podcast">podcast</a> </span></p> <h4 class="item002"><a href="/science/articles/2016/06/14/4475800.htm"><img src="https://www.abc.net.au/reslib/201606/r1574222_23716673.jpg" align="left" alt="">Bitcoin: from the beginning</a></h4> <p class="item002 itemList"><span class="txdate">Tuesday, 14 June 2016 <span class="hasComments"><a href="/science/articles/2016/06/14/4475800.htm#artComments" class="comments">[an error occurred while processing this directive] comments</a></span><img src="/science/css/img/icon.audio.png" alt="Article has audio" title="This article has audio attached" class="hasAudio"></span><span class="description"><br><span class="slug">Great Moments in Science</span> How did the Bitcoin virtual money system get started? Dr Karl takes a bite out of history.</span><span class="tags"><br> <strong>Subjects: </strong><a href="/science/tag/browse.htm?tag=business-economics-and-finance">business-economics-and-finance</a>, <a href="/science/tag/browse.htm?tag=information-and-communication">information-and-communication</a>, <a href="/science/tag/browse.htm?tag=internet">internet</a>, <a href="/science/tag/browse.htm?tag=computers-and-technology">computers-and-technology</a>, <a href="/science/tag/browse.htm?tag=internet">internet</a>, <a href="/science/tag/browse.htm?tag=mathematics">mathematics</a>, <a href="/science/tag/browse.htm?tag=greatmomentsinscience">greatmomentsinscience</a>, <a href="/science/tag/browse.htm?tag=drkarl">drkarl</a>, <a href="/science/tag/browse.htm?tag=podcast">podcast</a> </span></p> <h4 class="item003"><a href="/science/articles/2016/05/31/4470866.htm"><img src="https://www.abc.net.au/reslib/201605/r1571072_23650602.jpg" align="left" alt="Behind the cloud is a bank of computers">How clean and green is our digital world?</a></h4> <p class="item003 itemList"><span class="txdate">Tuesday, 31 May 2016 <span class="hasComments"><a href="/science/articles/2016/05/31/4470866.htm#artComments" class="comments">[an error occurred while processing this directive] comments</a></span><img src="/science/css/img/icon.audio.png" alt="Article has audio" title="This article has audio attached" class="hasAudio"></span><span class="description"><br><span class="slug">Great Moments in Science</span> Today's technology looks so slick and clean as it brings magic to your screen. But behind the scenes, our data comes at a cost, says Dr Karl.</span><span class="tags"><br> <strong>Subjects: </strong><a href="/science/tag/browse.htm?tag=environment">environment</a>, <a href="/science/tag/browse.htm?tag=information-and-communication">information-and-communication</a>, <a href="/science/tag/browse.htm?tag=internet">internet</a>, <a href="/science/tag/browse.htm?tag=computers-and-technology">computers-and-technology</a>, <a href="/science/tag/browse.htm?tag=internet">internet</a>, <a href="/science/tag/browse.htm?tag=greatmomentsinscience">greatmomentsinscience</a>, <a href="/science/tag/browse.htm?tag=drkarl">drkarl</a>, <a href="/science/tag/browse.htm?tag=podcast">podcast</a> </span></p> <h4 class="item004"><a href="https://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-10-16/video-from-the-vault-welcome-to-the-world-wide-web/6838408"><img src="https://www.abc.net.au/reslib/201510/r1486972_21856208.JPG" align="left" alt="The advent of World Wide Web made it easy to use the internet ">The World Wide Web explained</a></h4> <p class="item004 itemList"><span class="txdate">Friday, 16 October 2015</span><span class="description"><br><span class="slug">Video from the vault</span> In 1996, ABC TV's Http:// program ran a story explaining a popular new thing called the World Wide Web.</span><span class="tags"><br> <strong>Subjects: </strong><a href="/science/tag/browse.htm?tag=information-and-communication">information-and-communication</a>, <a href="/science/tag/browse.htm?tag=internet">internet</a>, <a href="/science/tag/browse.htm?tag=science-and-technology">science-and-technology</a>, <a href="/science/tag/browse.htm?tag=computers-and-technology">computers-and-technology</a>, <a href="/science/tag/browse.htm?tag=video">video</a> </span></p> <h4 class="item005"><a href="https://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-09-11/first-wristwatch-computer-1984-video-from-the-vault/6767654"><img src="https://www.abc.net.au/reslib/201509/r1473207_21558111.JPG" align="left" alt="Carmel Travers demonstrating the wristwatch computer (1984)">The first wristwatch computer from 1984</a></h4> <p class="item005 itemList"><span class="txdate">Friday, 11 September 2015</span><span class="description"><br><span class="slug">Video from the vault</span> Earlier this week, Apple was talking up its new smartwatch models, but the concept of this product category started back in the early 1980s.</span><span class="tags"><br> <strong>Subjects: </strong><a href="/science/tag/browse.htm?tag=information-and-communication">information-and-communication</a>, <a href="/science/tag/browse.htm?tag=science-and-technology">science-and-technology</a>, <a href="/science/tag/browse.htm?tag=video">video</a>, <a href="/science/tag/browse.htm?tag=indepthfeature">indepthfeature</a> </span></p> <h4 class="item006"><a href="/science/articles/2015/08/21/4301913.htm"><img src="https://www.abc.net.au/reslib/201509/r1470413_21495828.JPG" align="left" alt="Preparing for a jamming session on the internet ">1996: where the online music revolution began</a></h4> <p class="item006 itemList"><span class="txdate">Friday, 21 August 2015</span><span class="description"><br><span class="slug">Video from the vault</span> The music industry has undergone massive change since the arrival of the internet, and most of those changes were predicted in a funky little TV show called "http://".</span><span class="tags"><br> <strong>Subjects: </strong><a href="/science/tag/browse.htm?tag=information-and-communication">information-and-communication</a>, <a href="/science/tag/browse.htm?tag=science-and-technology">science-and-technology</a>, <a href="/science/tag/browse.htm?tag=information-technology">information-technology</a>, <a href="/science/tag/browse.htm?tag=inventions">inventions</a>, <a href="/science/tag/browse.htm?tag=indepthfeature">indepthfeature</a>, <a href="/science/tag/browse.htm?tag=video">video</a> </span></p> <h4 class="item007"><a href="/science/articles/2015/08/21/4297576.htm"><img src="https://www.abc.net.au/reslib/201508/r1464619_21372939.JPG" align="left" alt="Testing early image manipulation software in the 1980s">In the days before Photoshop</a></h4> <p class="item007 itemList"><span class="txdate">Friday, 21 August 2015</span><span class="description"><br><span class="slug">Video from the vault</span> Today, it doesn't surprise most of us to hear that pictures in a fashion magazine have been retouched, but it was the breakthrough of 1984.</span><span class="tags"><br> <strong>Subjects: </strong><a href="/science/tag/browse.htm?tag=information-and-communication">information-and-communication</a>, <a href="/science/tag/browse.htm?tag=science-and-technology">science-and-technology</a>, <a href="/science/tag/browse.htm?tag=breakthroughs">breakthroughs</a>, <a href="/science/tag/browse.htm?tag=information-technology">information-technology</a>, <a href="/science/tag/browse.htm?tag=inventions">inventions</a>, <a href="/science/tag/browse.htm?tag=software">software</a>, <a href="/science/tag/browse.htm?tag=indepthfeature">indepthfeature</a>, <a href="/science/tag/browse.htm?tag=video">video</a> </span></p> <h4 class="item008"><a href="/science/articles/2015/08/14/4262324.htm"><img src="https://www.abc.net.au/reslib/201506/r1441745_20882114.JPG" align="left" alt="The original ABC home page on the World Wide Web (1995)">20 years of ABC Online</a></h4> <p class="item008 itemList"><span class="txdate">Friday, 14 August 2015</span><span class="description"><br><span class="slug">Video from the vault</span> ABC Online launched its first website 20 years ago today.</span><span class="tags"><br> <strong>Subjects: </strong><a href="/science/tag/browse.htm?tag=information-and-communication">information-and-communication</a>, <a href="/science/tag/browse.htm?tag=science-and-technology">science-and-technology</a>, <a href="/science/tag/browse.htm?tag=internet">internet</a>, <a href="/science/tag/browse.htm?tag=information-technology">information-technology</a>, <a href="/science/tag/browse.htm?tag=indepthfeature">indepthfeature</a>, <a href="/science/tag/browse.htm?tag=video">video</a> </span></p> <h4 class="item009"><a href="/science/articles/2015/05/07/4184086.htm"><img src="https://www.abc.net.au/reslib/201502/r1391591_19791667.JPG" align="left" alt="CSIRAC is the only first generation computer still intact today">CSIRAC: The world's first computer to play music</a></h4> <p class="item009 itemList"><span class="txdate">Thursday, 7 May 2015</span><span class="description"><br><span class="slug">Video from the vault</span> It filled a room the size of a double garage and had only a fraction of the brainpower of the cheapest electronic organiser, but it could play...</span><span class="tags"><br> <strong>Subjects: </strong><a href="/science/tag/browse.htm?tag=electronic">electronic</a>, <a href="/science/tag/browse.htm?tag=information-and-communication">information-and-communication</a>, <a href="/science/tag/browse.htm?tag=science-and-technology">science-and-technology</a>, <a href="/science/tag/browse.htm?tag=computers-and-technology">computers-and-technology</a>, <a href="/science/tag/browse.htm?tag=information-technology">information-technology</a>, <a href="/science/tag/browse.htm?tag=indepthfeature">indepthfeature</a>, <a href="/science/tag/browse.htm?tag=video">video</a> </span></p> <h4 class="item010"><a href="/science/articles/2015/01/30/4167302.htm"><img src="https://www.abc.net.au/reslib/201501/r1380798_19555396.JPG" align="left" alt="Computers in an Issaquah classroom, 1995">The Issaquah experiment: an inspiring use of computers in education</a></h4> <p class="item010 itemList"><span class="txdate">Friday, 30 January 2015</span><span class="description"><br><span class="slug">From the vault</span> Educators have been grappling with the question of how best to deploy computers in schools for a very long time. But what if we thought of the students as IT workers?</span><span class="tags"><br> <strong>Subjects: </strong><a href="/science/tag/browse.htm?tag=education">education</a>, <a href="/science/tag/browse.htm?tag=information-and-communication">information-and-communication</a>, <a href="/science/tag/browse.htm?tag=science-and-technology">science-and-technology</a>, <a href="/science/tag/browse.htm?tag=internet">internet</a>, <a href="/science/tag/browse.htm?tag=information-technology">information-technology</a>, <a href="/science/tag/browse.htm?tag=indepthfeature">indepthfeature</a>, <a href="/science/tag/browse.htm?tag=video">video</a> <strong>Locations: </strong><a href="/science/tag/browse.htm?tag=united-states">united-states</a></span></p> <h4 class="item011"><a href="https://www.unsw.edu.au/top5under40"><img src="https://www.abc.net.au/reslib/201412/r1365180_19216564.jpg" align="left" alt="top 40">Calling young scientists with a passion for communicating!</a></h4> <p class="item011 itemList"><span class="txdate">Wednesday, 3 December 2014</span><span class="description"><br><span class="slug">Top 5 under 40</span> Applications for this new UNSW/ABC initiative are now open. 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