I probably have the same ritual as everyone else. As I get ready to start my day, I check the news feed on my phone. Today was like most others; what did the President do or not do today, blah blah blah. But, a story that cheered me up was the fact that Voyager II …
Quicktime Saves Apple’s Bacon Today in tech history, Apple sews the seeds to sue the crap out of Microsoft, Intel, and a “little guy” caught in the middle. Why dyou ask? Well, back in 1994, you couldn’t just stream video in your browser. You needed a player, much like a virtual DVD player that lived …
The 1991 movie Terminator 2 Judgment has a quote: “ The Terminator: The Skynet Funding Bill is passed. The system goes on-line August 4th, 1997. Human decisions are removed from strategic defense. Skynet begins to learn at a geometric rate. It becomes self-aware at 2:14 a.m. Eastern time, August 29th. In a panic, they try …
December 4, 2001 Disguised as a screen saver and spread through an infected user’s Microsoft Outlook e-mail software, the Goner worm spreads through the Internet at a pace second only to the Love Bug virus the previous year. Goner was estimated to cause about $80 million dollars in damage Similar to the UPS virus we see today, the Goner …