Women’s Wear Daily (WWD) was dubbed the “Bible of fashion” for a reason. Founded in 1910, WWD was known for “focusing on the human side of fashion,” so when retailers came up with the idea of declaring the day after Thanksgiving “Black Friday” to establish a holiday gift-buying launch, WWD was one of the first publications to promote the idea in the 1970s. The idea…
Scholars at Atlanta’s Georgia Tech University delved into a topic that few academic institutions have attempted: The origins of the term “going viral.” Their discovery, that going viral has been around for more than 120 years, came about as the result of access to databases covering more than 10 million newspaper pages. The first example? Presidential candidate William Jennings Bryan’s 1896 Democratic National Convention speech….