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Postman started in 2012 as a side project of software engineer Abhinav Asthana, who wanted to simplify API testing while working at Yahoo Bangalore. [4] He named his app Postman – a play on the API request “POST” – and offered it free in the Chrome Web Store. As the app's usage grew to 500,000 users with no marketing, Abhinav recruited ...
19th-century English postman. A mail carrier, also referred to as a mailman, mailwoman, mailperson, postal carrier, postman, postwoman, postperson, person of post, [1] letter carrier (in American English), or colloquially postie (in Australia, [2] Canada, [3] New Zealand, [4] and the United Kingdom [5]), is an employee of a post office or postal service who delivers mail and parcel post to ...
PS3552.R4825 P6 1985. The Postman is a post-apocalyptic dystopian science fiction novel by David Brin. It is about a man wandering the desolate Oregon countryside who finds a United States Postal Service uniform, which he puts on and then claims he is a mail carrier and federal inspector for the "Restored United States of America".
Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business. Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business (1985) is a book by educator Neil Postman. It has been translated into eight languages and sold some 200,000 copies worldwide.
Neil Postman. Neil Postman (March 8, 1931 – October 5, 2003) was an American author, educator, media theorist and cultural critic, who eschewed digital technology, including personal computers, mobile devices, and cruise control in cars, and was critical of uses of technology, such as personal computers in school. [ 1]
Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology is a book by Neil Postman published in 1992 that describes the development and characteristics of a "technopoly". He defines a technopoly as a society in which technology is deified, meaning “the culture seeks its authorisation in technology, finds its satisfactions in technology, and takes its orders from technology”.
Media ecology. Media ecology theory is the study of media, technology, and communication and how they affect human environments. [ 1] The theoretical concepts were proposed by Marshall McLuhan in 1964, [ 2] while the term media ecology was first formally introduced by Neil Postman in 1968. [ 3]
In the variation "pony express", the "post office" is a closet or it is in some other dark room. The game is played the same, but can become more intense. It is described in the 1954 movie Phffft as "...the same as Post Office, but with more 'horsing around'". In Sweden, the game is referred to as ryska posten ("Russian mail/post office").