On the 40th anniversary of the final moon landing, the past remains brighter than the future.
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Google Pays Tribute to Ada Lovelace
The “first computer programmer” is the star of Google’s home page today
Happy Birthday, Pong
Today is the official fortieth anniversary of Atari’s Pong, the video game which introduced the world to video games. (There were earlier ones, but Pong, which was created by Al Alcorn and Nolan Bushnell, was the first big hit.)
Behold, Some of the First Apple Computer Photos Ever
Apple’s first dealer shares his 1976 photos of the Apple-1, the company’s first product.
Windows 1.0: The Windows 8 of Its Time
The Verge takes a look back at Microsoft’s first graphical interface, and draws some parallels to its new one.
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Google Turns 14, Was Initially Called ‘BackRub’
Apparently today is Google’s 14th birthday. Though the company’s official history makes no mention of September 27, the birthday cake Google Doodle – complete with 14 candles and hovertext that reads “Google’s 14th Birthday” …
10 Questions for Sir Tim-Berners Lee
What do you do after you make that thing that changes the world? If you’re Sir Tim Berners-Lee, and you breathed life into the World Wide Web, you make sure it gets used properly. Hence the Web Index, a massive list of …
Confessions of a Left-Handed Technology User
When it comes to computers, southpaws are faced by a vast right-hand conspiracy.
In Memory of Nintendo Power
At the end of this year, the lights will turn off at Nintendo Power. Future US, which has produced the long-running magazine for the last five years, is pulling out, and Nintendo says it won’t seek a new publisher according to …
Top 10 Celebrity Tech Endorsements
Going viral in the past week are two celebrity tech ads — James Franco promoting the Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 and Penélope Cruz promoting the Nintendo 3DS. That’s a good enough excuse to re-watch celebrity-endorsed tech …
Technology in the 1990s, as Captured in Obsolete Computer Store Signs
On Saturday, my wife and I went to run some errands at a shopping center in Santa Clara, California, in the heart of Silicon Valley. As we pulled into the parking lot, we let out simultaneous little startled gasps: Micro Center, …