Red telephone: 63 years of the hotline that was never a phone
On 08/30/1963, the Moscow-Washington hotline went live. The first message was a test pangram. And there never was a red …
Today in History 6 posts
Information security in plain English: scams, hardening and privacy — plus retrogaming, games and geek culture.
Windows 95: 31 years of the OS that launched with the Rolling Stones
On August 24, 1995, Microsoft spent US$200 million to launch Windows 95 with Start Me Up playing in stores. Thirty-one …
Zotob: the worm that took CNN down live 7 days after the patch
On August 16, 2005, CNN's computers started rebooting on their own during live broadcasts — victims of Zotob, a worm …
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 …
Half-Life 2: Episode One turns 20 — Alyx and the episodic model
On 1 June 2006, Valve released HL2: Episode One betting on an episodic model. Twenty years on, we look at how that bet …