How the UK was connected to the Internet for the first time
Later, we connected the first multi-service heterogeneous network outside the US ( Janet, the UK’s academic network ...
How Britain got its first internet connection – by the late pioneer who created the first password on the internet
Peter Kirstein had to overcome various hurdles to connect the UK to the internet, including intransigent governments, ...
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Britain's First Internet Connection: Password Pioneer
British computer scientist and Internet Hall of Fame inductee Peter Kirstein died in January 2020 at the age of 86, after a nearly 50-year career at ...
Whatever Happened to Unix Workstations?
Unix workstations were powerful computers that ran some variant of Unix. As the name implies, they were meant for serious work such as software development, CAD, or graphics. They were widely used by ...
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MITS Altair 8800 – Complete History of the MITS Altair 8800
Facts About The MITS Altair 8800 The MITS Altair 8800 was the first customizable microcomputer. It can be thought of as the predecessor to the Arduino and Raspberry Pi microcomputers. The Altair ...
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What does it take to get a 47-year-old printer working? [Usagi Electric] shows us it’s not too hard, even if you don’t exactly know what you’re doing. When we last left this project, he ...
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Age Calculator
Welcome to our versatile age calculator! This tool calculates your current age when you input your date of birth. You can use it to find out your age on a specific past or future date by entering that ...