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Tech Time Warp: When Internet Explorer Was Cool
Let’s time-travel back to August 1995, when Bill Gates and his company introduced the world to Internet Explorer 1.0. Making its debut on August 16, 1995, this wasn’t the IE you later spurned for Chrome and Firefox. No, this was...
Tech Time Warp: The story behind five everyday tech terms
Given technology’s fast pace, it’s easy to forget someone in 1995 would look at you like you were from Mars if you mentioned your Bluetooth. Turns out the stories behind commonly used tech terms are fairly fascinating. For instance, thank...
Tech Time Warp: Koobface worm begins to spread
Back in August 2008—when you were still juggling Facebook and MySpace profiles—unsuspecting social networkers found their machines infected by Koobface, a particularly nasty computer worm. Koobface (an anagram for Facebook) caught its victims by tempting them with tantalizing Facebook links...
Tech Time Warp: Apple begins work on the Lisa
While everyone else was at the beach during the summer of 1979, Steve Jobs began work on—you guessed it—another product that would change the world. The Lisa, introduced to the marketplace in 1983, was Apple’s first foray into personal computers...
Tech Time Warp: Email Outage Chaos
The Internet makes life so much easier … except when it doesn’t. Just like a bad cold makes you appreciate breathing through your nose, an Internet outage makes you realize your reliance on email and texts and streaming services. The...
Tech Time Warp: The First Case of Ransomware
The WannaCry ransomware attack once again brings the need for backup and security solutions into focus, but ransomware is nothing new. The first case of ransomware, chock-full of “truth is stranger than fiction” details, occurred in 1989. The PC Cyborg...
Pioneers in Tech: Remembering Dado Banatao, designer of the first PC chipset
You probably haven’t thought about your chipset lately—but if you were missing it, you would notice. Dado Banatao, who was born in 1946 in a Filipino farming village that lacked electricity, was the designer behind the first PC chipset. (For...
Pioneers in Tech: Charles Geschke and the desktop publishing revolution
The PDF is ubiquitous — such a workhorse of modern life that you might not often think about its origin story or how remarkable it is. It’s only been since 1992 that you could create a document with any application...
Pioneers in Tech: Happy 80th birthday to Dr. Shirley Ann Jackson!
A very happy birthday to Dr. Shirley Ann Jackson, who turned 80 on Aug. 5. Jackson — whom Time magazine once called “perhaps the ultimate role model for women in science” — was the first Black woman to earn a...
Pioneers in Tech: A new future for computer-generated graphics
Jurassic Park. The Abyss. Beauty and the Beast. And, 35 years ago this month, Terminator 2. In this edition of Tech Time Warp, we look back at the contributions of Dr. Marc Regis, co-founder of Silicon Graphics Inc. (SGI), whose...
