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Tech Time Warp: The history of the Computer History Museum
It might seem a bit meta (not Meta!) for a technology history blog series to cover the history of the Computer History Museum, but the Silicon Valley institution is the mothership, and we certainly rely on its incredible web presence....
Tech Time Warp: Welchia—when the remedy was as bad as the malady
August 2003 was already challenging for network administrators. They were busy fending off the Blaster worm, whose payload caused computers to reboot every 60 seconds, so initially they may have reacted positively to news of the Welkin worm. Welkin was...
Tech Time Warp: The TRS-80 makes its debut
It sounds like a joke today: A major retailer, concerned about waning interest in CB radio, decides to offer a new product line. But the retailer isn’t sure this new product line will have any staying power. Would the market...
Tech Time Warp: Slicing into the history of CT scans
A CT scan is so commonplace no one thinks twice about it anymore—but, as with all things technology, we really should. Take a look at the history behind CT scans in this edition of Tech Time Warp. Forty-two years ago,...
Tech Time Warp: The slide rule becomes obsolete
“150 Extra Engineers.” This 1952 IBM advertisement for the IBM Electronic Calculator is not dissimilar from today’s marketing for the latest artificial intelligence (AI) innovations: “An IBM Electronic Calculator speeds through thousands of intricate computations so quickly that on many...
Tech Time Warp: A eulogy for the Blue Screen of Death
The news that Microsoft will soon retire the infamous “Blue Screen of Death,” aka BSOD, in favor of an all-black “simplified UI for unexpected restarts” has inspired a wave of nostalgia for the screen every Windows user has learned to...
Tech Time Warp: 25 years of exploiting poor Pikachu
One of the first pieces of malware designed to target children turns 25 this month. Take a look back in this edition of Tech Time Warp. First detected in June 2000, the Pikachu Pokémon or “Pokey” virus played on a...
Tech Time Warp: The secrets to the Apple II’s success
The Apple II, designed by Steve Wozniak in 1977, was a groundbreaking self-contained machine, with screen, keyboard, power supply, and electronics all in a single plastic unit. The first Apple IIs were shipped on June 10, 1977, and cost $1,298....
Tech Time Warp: Celebrating milestones in Sims history
This year marks the 25th anniversary of the release of The Sims, an occasion the gaming company Electronic Arts Inc. (EA) marked with a re-release of The Sims, The Sims 2, and their respective collections of expansion packs, along with...
Tech Time Warp: Thank you, Steve Wilhite, for the best GIFt ever
Chances are, you shared or received a GIF today, whether on social media or a messaging application. In 1987, developer Steve Wilhite and his team at CompuServe had no idea the impact they would have on modern communication when they...
