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Reading: old computer manuals
Music: Angelina Carberry
TV/Movie: The Oblongs
Link o' the Day: Official Archie Comics website
The twelve original internet servers designated for ARPA-net across the United States are still in operation despite having half the processing power of an average modern desktop computer.
Speaking of which, the twelve servers are each named after the Signs of the Zodiac and hold Air Force ranks equivalent to captain. Despite holding Air Force ranks, only Captain Picses, the server located on Eielson Air Force Base outside of Fairbanks, has actually been on a plane. Each of the other servers were transported to their final destinations by truck.
The theoretical concept of the Internet has been described as early as the 1400s as a natural development of the moveable-type printing press.
Hypertext, which is a major component of HTML, was often bundled with early Macintosh computers as a multi-media tool. When the WWW was developed, Hypercard (which utilized the Hypertext language) essentially disappeared to all but Mac historians.
If every e-mail address in existence today were to send a one-word e-mail at exactly the same time (taking time zones into account), 99% of all processing servers across the world would suffer massive overheating resulting in a worldwide shut down of the Internet.
Kevin Steadier of Cleveland, Ohio locked himself in his room on October 31st, 2001 and lives solely through his internet connection--consulting for online security firms for money, pays all bills online, and makes all purchases, including groceries, via various web-based services. He married via webcast in 2005 a woman he met online but has yet to meet in person.
Search engines, prior to the WWW, were named after characters from Archie comics. The most popular ones were called Archie, Veronica, and Grundy.
The first transcontinental e-mail sent was from a Corporal Bell in Nevada to a Leiutenant Watson in London.
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Today's link, as a nod to one of the above items, takes you to the Official Archie Comics website. Comics. News. Downloadable images. Character blogs... and so much more. Yeah, I'm an Archie fan. Yeah, I still buy those double-digests from the supermarket stands. Okay, I prefer the old school character designs and stories, but this site has 'em all--old and new.
Enjoy!
Music: Angelina Carberry
TV/Movie: The Oblongs
Link o' the Day: Official Archie Comics website
The twelve original internet servers designated for ARPA-net across the United States are still in operation despite having half the processing power of an average modern desktop computer.
Speaking of which, the twelve servers are each named after the Signs of the Zodiac and hold Air Force ranks equivalent to captain. Despite holding Air Force ranks, only Captain Picses, the server located on Eielson Air Force Base outside of Fairbanks, has actually been on a plane. Each of the other servers were transported to their final destinations by truck.
The theoretical concept of the Internet has been described as early as the 1400s as a natural development of the moveable-type printing press.
Hypertext, which is a major component of HTML, was often bundled with early Macintosh computers as a multi-media tool. When the WWW was developed, Hypercard (which utilized the Hypertext language) essentially disappeared to all but Mac historians.
If every e-mail address in existence today were to send a one-word e-mail at exactly the same time (taking time zones into account), 99% of all processing servers across the world would suffer massive overheating resulting in a worldwide shut down of the Internet.
Kevin Steadier of Cleveland, Ohio locked himself in his room on October 31st, 2001 and lives solely through his internet connection--consulting for online security firms for money, pays all bills online, and makes all purchases, including groceries, via various web-based services. He married via webcast in 2005 a woman he met online but has yet to meet in person.
Search engines, prior to the WWW, were named after characters from Archie comics. The most popular ones were called Archie, Veronica, and Grundy.
The first transcontinental e-mail sent was from a Corporal Bell in Nevada to a Leiutenant Watson in London.
-=-=-=-=-=-=-
Today's link, as a nod to one of the above items, takes you to the Official Archie Comics website. Comics. News. Downloadable images. Character blogs... and so much more. Yeah, I'm an Archie fan. Yeah, I still buy those double-digests from the supermarket stands. Okay, I prefer the old school character designs and stories, but this site has 'em all--old and new.
Enjoy!
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