1889 – The first commercial jukebox was installed in San Francisco, CA. It was called the “Nickel-in-the-Slot”, and played wax cylinder records. Within 6 months it would earn $1,000. The word “Juke” – by the way – means ‘disorderly house’ – therefore this is a disorderly box of music.
Put another nickel in – in the [...]
We pull out and set up the Epson Artisan 810 All in one Printer. This is a fully functional copier / printer / scanner / Fax. We set up the printer to the network and make a couple print samples.
**Before we start, I have to say that this device was sent to me by Epson [...]
1994 – The Sega Saturn is released featuring 2 28.6 MHz processors running 32 bit. It had 2 video display processors, QSound surround and 2 MB of memory, with 1.5MB of video memory. It went for 44,800 Yen, or $450.
2005 – Microsoft launches the XBOX360. It contained a IBM PowerPC with 3 cores at 3.2 [...]
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1969 – The First ARPANET link is established
1995 – Toy Story is released to audiences. It is the first feature film created by computer animation
2008 – Abraham Biggs commits [...]
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Web Warfare
NSA and Windows 7
Always been working together
Big security risks
Take down old websites.
Google OS
Get rid of the Operating System
Computer on Internet
Application Tabs
Older programs = Windows
Microsoft Bing OS?
Computer on PS3
Firefox
Facebook
Catpaint
iPhone app 0.99
Cats meow as placed on
8 different cats
Email to friends
Black Friday
Amazon [...]
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On this day, the word “hacking” was used in an issue of “the tech”, which is a massachusetts institute of technology newspaper.
Here is a snippet of [...]
1993 – The Ionizer – Otherwise known as Michael Elanky, recieved 28 months in prison for posting bomb-making instructions on his BBS. There have been other instances of this throughout history, but Elansky was a member of the International Information Retrieval Guild, a computer group very much concerned with freedom of speech and freedom of [...]