Tag: ANNIVERSARY

Whenever Google rolls out one of its quirky homepage redesigns, it's usually in commemoration of some famous event or celebrity birthday. Now, though, the search engine has decided to offer a special birthday doodle to each of its users -- even non-celebrity schmucks like us. To get your very own birthday doodle surprise, you'll have to first add your birthday to your Google Profile, and make ...

In the U.S., most Americans celebrate national anniversaries with fireworks and barbecues. North Koreans, on the other hand, are celebrating their ruling party's 65th birthday with something way more exciting: the Internet. According to IDG News, the hermetic communist country has reportedly made its first online connection with the outside world in celebration of the ruling Workers' Party of ...

In an attempt to make its platform more user friendly, the Internet Movie Database (IMDB) launched a major site redesign this week, with a particular emphasis on increasing video footage and streamlining site aesthetics. IMDB founder and CEO Col Needham tells the AP that his movie site underwent a makeover primarily to "emphasize the visual nature of film and TV." It's also no coincidence that ...

It's hard to believe that just 40 years ago, the Internet was but a glimmer in the eye of researchers at UCLA. On September 2nd, 1969, Len Kleinrock and his team successfully passed test data between two giant computers via a 15-foot cable. This small victory was just the beginning of what would eventually become Arpanet, the government project that eventually led to the creation of the Internet. ...

'The Matrix', 'Strange Days', and even 'Hackers' have all cribbed from William Gibson's cyberpunk masterpiece 'Neuromancer', which celebrated its 25th birthday on Tuesday. Written in 1984, Gibson's hyper-futuristic novel follows a super hacker named Case as he executes amazing cyber-feats, hired by a shadowy organization that immediately raise his suspicions. When a former employer rendered Case ...

In honor of their tenth birthday, Google has brought back the oldest version of its search page it could, from 2001. The older design, with its thick letters and the goofy exclamation point, isn't just old school on the surface either. Searching the anniversary edition of Google brings back results from the 2001 search index. That means searching for "iPod" brings up results for "Image Proof of ...

It was 60 years ago that the first modern computer -- at least according to some -- was born in a lab in Manchester, England. The Small Scale Experimental Machine, or Baby, as it was affectionately known, was the first truly reprogrammable computer that had an analog for RAM. Unlike its predecessors, the ENIAC and Colossus, Baby could accomplish a variety of tasks by inputting different ...

It's amazing how quickly pieces of technology can become not only an accepted, but also indispensable parts of everyday life. It's hard to believe, but the MP3 player, now more accurately called the Digital Audio Player (DAP) or Personal Media Player (PMP), is 10 years old. Of course, most people just call it the iPod, but that's a whole other story. It was back in March of 1998 that the world ...

It's hard to believe but this week Wikipedia is only 7 years old. Just 2,561 days ago the free and editable by every one encyclopedia that has become a staple in so many people's lives didn't exist. In that short time, Wikipedia has gone from interesting experiment, to a fairly reliable source on an absurdly broad range of subjects. As of this morning the English version counts over 2.1 million ...

Happy belated birthday, blogosphere! In case you didn't know, December 17 was the 10th anniversary of the term 'Weblog,' which was shortened to 'blog' at some point. The term started with a man, Jorn Barger, who used the phrase to describe his Web page where he posted links of interesting things he found around the Internet. Back in 1997, blogging was hardly the phenomenon it is today. Some of ...

Most of our readers are probably too young to remember the slide rule. An archaic device for doing arithmetic that was the standard before the arrival of high powered and practical pocket calculators. HP is continuing its year long celebration of its 35th anniversary by honoring the device that almost single-handedly killed the slide rule -- The HP 35. To mark the 35th anniversary of this ...