Sputnik Turns 69: The Beep That Led to ARPA and the Internet
On October 4, 1957, an 83.6 kg sphere beeped over the Earth. Sputnik 1 started the space race and led to the creation of …
Internet 7 posts
Information security in plain English: scams, hardening and privacy — plus retrogaming, games and geek culture.
Project Gutenberg: how the first ebook appeared in 1971
On 6 September 2011 Michael Hart died — the student who typed up the Declaration of Independence in 1971 and created the …
Netscape IPO — 31 years since the Big Bang of the commercial internet
On August 9, 1995, Netscape went public without ever having turned a profit and closed the day worth $3 billion — the …
The GIF turns 39: from CompuServe to today's memes
On 15 June 1987, Steve Wilhite released the GIF on CompuServe. On the same date, 35 years later, Internet Explorer was …
LAN houses: the room that connected a generation to Counter-Strike
Today is World Internet Day. Time to remember the LAN houses: CS 1.6, Ragnarok, Tibia and the noisy internet we shared …
The Web free for 33 years: the day CERN gave it all away
On 30 April 1993, CERN released the World Wide Web into the public domain. Without that signature, the internet you use …
Mosaic 1.0: 33 years of the browser that invented the visual web
On 22 April 1993, Mosaic 1.0 was released and turned the internet from plain text into something anyone could use. 33 …