Tech Time Warp: Happy Birthday to pioneer in tech, Grace Hopper
Admiral Grace Hopper, one of the most legendary early females in the computer industry, would have celebrated her 118th birthday on December 9. Born in New York City in 1906, Hopper built a career in the U.S. Navy and computer...
Tech Time Warp: Recording industry takes on file-sharing pioneer Napster
Twenty-five years ago, a generation of college students hit the jackpot when it came to music. They moved to college dormitories with ethernet connections just as Shawn Fanning and Sean Parker launched Napster, the first mainstream peer-to-peer file-sharing service. Or,...
Tech Time Warp: A game “so simple that any drunk in any bar could play”
Sometimes the best ideas really are the simplest, and compared with the complexity of today’s video games or even some of its early pioneering contemporaries, that was the basis of Pong. Released on Nov. 29, 1972, Pong was—in the words...
Tech Time Warp: Conficker’s persistent ability to outsmart defenses
For the past 16 years, Conficker has been a virulent piece of malware. First identified in November 2008, it continues to persist in legacy operating systems (looking at you, Windows XP and Windows Server 2003). Take a look back in...
Tech Time Warp: Apple releases the revolutionary iPod
Before the iPhone, there was the iPod. On Oct. 23, 2001, Steve Jobs introduced the iPod to a small audience—nothing like the Apple release events of later years. But then, Apple was not the juggernaut in 2001 that it is...
Pioneers in Tech: Fred Begay, the first Navajo to earn a PhD in physics
Native American Heritage Month, celebrated annually in November, provides an opportunity to examine and recognize the work of indigenous peoples in technology history. One of these Pioneers in Tech is Fred Begay, the first Navajo to earn a PhD in physics....
Tech Time Warp: Lo! Unto us the Internet is born
Amid all the breaking news this week, the internet celebrated its 55th birthday on Oct. 29. Dive into this milestone and more in this week’s edition of Tech Time Warp. On Oct. 29, 1969, two computers were first networked to...
Tech Time Warp: Sony hack proves spear phishing can have embarrassing results
As Cybersecurity Awareness Month winds down, it’s worth noting the upcoming 10-year anniversary of one of the most notorious spear phishing incidents: the 2014 Sony Pictures Entertainment hack. Learn all about it in this edition of Tech Time Warp. Frankly,...
Tech Time Warp: A seriously cautionary tale of spear phishing
One of the major messages of the #SecureOurWorld Cybersecurity Awareness Month is for computer users to educate themselves on how to recognize and reporting phishing schemes. One of the most insidious forms is spear phishing, which uses social engineering to...
Tech Time Warp: Cybersecurity’s evolving role in homeland security
Although Cybersecurity Awareness Month has been observed in some fashion for more than 20 years, the federal agency leading the effort to #SecureOurWorld has only existed since late 2018. Let’s dive into this week’s Tech Time Warp. The origin story...
