Geeky Holidays Party excuses for the geek in everyone.

Geek Holiday: International Pixel-Stained Technopeasant Day. Created in 2007 by Jo Walton in response to a rant by Howard V. Hendrix about people publishing their works for free on the internet. Geek Events to celebrate on April 23: 1867 – William Lincoln patents the zoetrope, a machine that shows animated pictures by mounting a strip […]

Geek events to celebrate on April 14: 1828 – Noah Webster copyrights the first edition of his dictionary. 1894 – Thomas Edison demonstrates the kinetoscope, a device for peep-show viewing using photographs that flip in sequence, a precursor to movies. 1956 – In Chicago, Illinois, videotape is first demonstrated. 2003 – The Human Genome Project […]