Category: History

  • What Internet search would have looked like when IBM System 360 ruled the world

    Google60 is Norbert Landsteiner’s art piece that tries to convey what google.com search would have looked like back in the 60’s — when IBM System 360 monsters ruled the machine rooms. An absolute gem for all the 360 nerds left out there.

  • Steve Jobs’ Speech From 1983 About Things That Didn’t Exist Until Now

    Steve Jobs’ Speech From 1983 About Things That Didn’t Exist Until Now | iPhone in Canada Blog – Canada’s #1 iPhone Resource: Back in 1983, Steve Jobs spoke at International Design Conference (IDCA) in Aspen. Now, the full 1-hour audio recording of Steve’s amazing speech discussing things like wireless networking, App Store and the iPad has surfaced, thanks to folks…

  • The Birth and Rise of Ethernet: A History – Input Output

    The Birth and Rise of Ethernet: A History – Input Output: Nowadays, we take Ethernet for granted. We plug a cable jack in the wall or into a switch and we get the network. What’s to think about? But it didn’t start that way. In the 60s and 70s, networks were ad hoc hodgepodges of…

  • Searching the Internet B.G. (Before Google) – Input Output

    Searching the Internet B.G. (Before Google) – Input Output: The first major search advance was Archie, which beginning in 1990 made it possible to search through a site’s file directories. Archie was painful to use, but compared to what we had been dealing with, it was wonderful. Archie was quickly followed by the University of Nevada…

  • The History of the Floppy Disk – Input Output

    The History of the Floppy Disk – Input Output: George Sollman, another Shugart engineer, took an early model of the 5.25” drive to a Home Brew Computer Club meeting. “The following Wednesday or so, Don came to my office and said, ‘There’s a bum in the lobby,’” Sollman says. “‘And, in marketing, you’re in charge of cleaning…

  • The new E-Book from Radio Shack!

     The Shack rocks….well it did back in 1978. Funny part is that the so called e-book was priced around $19.95 to $24.95, just about the same as a e-book today :-)

  • Miracle Memory…….

    The compact RAMAC 305……Love the part where the “Lady in Red” opens up the “Trim Gray Process Unit”……yeah baby :-)

  • Vintage Ad Browser…..

    If you have sometime and like the look of those old ads from days gone by, check out Vintage Ad Browser. They provide a great interface to browser through all sorts of Ad categories and further break them down by decades.

  • ASCII Art for all your N.E.R.D.ly needs :-)…..

    Yep, a whole archive of ASCII Art, brought to you by Christopher A. Johnson……Ahhh, just like heaven…. ..uu. ?$””`?i z’ `M .@” x” ‘Z :#” . . f 8M ‘&H?` :$f U8 < MP x#' d#` XM $5. $ M' xM" .!"> @ ‘f`$L:M R.@!` +` > R X “NXF R”*L k ‘f M “$$…

  • Berlin Wall, It’s been 20 years already…..

    Wow, I still remember this day. I was a first year Mathie at University of Waterloo and was having my “liquid lunch” at the bombshelter when the live coverage of “Mauerfall” started……What a amazing experience that was. Follow this link for a set of amazing pictures from past and present, from the fall of the…