How do you get the kids interested in old technology? By connecting it to a phone, obviously. Those kids and their phones. When [Marek] got his hands on an old-school teletype, he hooked it up to a ...

It was exciting to read Twitter when it first began sharing breaking news in 2006. In the early part of the 20th century, newsrooms must have felt the same excitement as the first (and often loud) ...

How do you get the kids interested in old technology? By connecting it to a phone, obviously. Those kids and their phones. When [Marek] got his hands on an old-school teletype, he hooked it up to a ...

Ten bells, and not seven trumpets, announced the apocalypse on February 20, 1971. It was 10:33AM, and teletypes in every single radio and TV station across the country rang those bells to announce an ...

This just in! Breaking news arrives in many ways in the 21 st century. Early newsrooms I worked in had noisy wire service teletype machines that would spit out rolls and rolls of arriving news and ...

"All the President's Men," as you may remember, is the book and film about Washington Post reporters Robert Woodward and Carl Bernstein and their efforts, with the clandestine assistance of "Deep ...

Text has been updated to restore the audio/video link at the end of the story. For several years in the 1970s I commuted from near Camden, N.J., to Baltimore, usually in the middle of the night. As I ...