Google turns 28: from a garage in Stanford to the world's search engine
On 27 September, Google celebrates 28 years. The story begins in a Stanford dorm with a crawler called BackRub — and …
Technology History 3 posts
Information security in plain English: scams, hardening and privacy — plus retrogaming, games and geek culture.
Windows ME: 26 years of the OS Microsoft wanted to forget
On 14 September 2000 Microsoft shipped Windows ME. Fourteen months later it was scrap. The story of the most hated OS — …
YouTube at 21: the 19-second video that changed the internet
On 23 April 2005, Jawed Karim filmed 19 seconds at a zoo. That unscripted, unedited, unpretentious clip became the first …