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A Brief History Nowadays, there are few things in life that could compare to the joys of being out there on a motorbike, with nothing ahead, but an open road and the wind in your hair –– or rather helmet. You have seen them thousands of times on the streets, but believe it or not, motorbikes have been around for over 100 years! The first ones were produced in 1894 by Hildebrand & Wolfmüller, and since then, there have been hundreds of different companies releasing them with all sorts of features.  Yet, if you are going on a long-distance ride,…

A Brief History Nowadays, to march with the current market conditions and the clients’ needs, all accountants should stay updated on technology. In the current accounting field, all accounting is based on technology and innovation. There are numerous digital resources and online materials. Most of the manual accounting processes and procedures have replaced by computerized accounting. Some of the advantages of technology are that it has reduced errors, made accounting better, and reports are more accurate. It is the reason why all accountants should switch to modern technology and adapt to new processes and procedures. Digging Deeper Technology has been…

A Brief History On January 20, 2020, we take a meandering mid-winter look at some of those things you seldom if ever encounter anymore, things that were once commonplace and even in their time examples of cutting edge technology.  We might even throw in a phrase or word that has become passé.  We are not saying these things have totally disappeared, just so greatly diminished that seeing or hearing one is an oddity. (See our previous articles on this subject, including:  “Things That Did Not Exist (Or Were Different) on July 1, 1957,” “May 16, 1960: 10 More Things That…

A Brief History Many people do not know that auto mechanics started as early as the 1800s in Europe, and the first-ever automobile was perfected in 1901. While a lot of things happened throughout automobile history, early car owners always had difficulty in finding people to fix and maintain this newly invented machine. In the early 1900s, Henry Ford perfected the efficient way of automobile making by releasing cars that had standardized parts, hence, it was cheaper and faster to make. As more automobiles were produced using standardized parts that were easy to learn and use, professionals and private businesses…

A Brief History Nowadays, it seems that the Internet is constantly expanding and evolving. We are used to Google, which sees five million searches daily, and WhatsApp, with fifty million active users each day, but the Internet infiltrates our lives much further than that.  It is unrecognisable from the early days of the Internet, Tim Berners-Lee’s World Wide Web, and even the social networking platforms of the early 2000s. The statistics show just how vital the Internet is to our lives, and how much of our lives we end up living through it. As well as the likes of Google…