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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: 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...
Pioneers in Tech: Happy birthday, Telle Whitney!
A very happy birthday to Telle Whitney, whose experiences as a female computer scientist in 1980s and 1990s Silicon Valley inspired work that has made her one of the foremost champions for women in the tech industry. Born June 5,...
Pioneers in Tech: Why you should know Ida Rhodes
The Jewish calendar has been closely tied to mathematics for centuries—but it wasn’t until 1977 that Hebrew dates could be calculated by a computer program. The breakthrough was the work of retired human “computer” Ida Rhodes, born Hadassah Itzkowitz in...
Pioneers in Tech: Frances “Poppy” Northcutt, the first woman in Mission Control
All eyes have been on Artemis 2 this week and its many firsts. These include the first woman to fly to the moon (Christina Koch) and the first female launch director of a crewed launch (Charlie Blackwell-Thompson). That’s why this...
