We're approaching the fifth anniversary of the World IPv6 Launch Day. This is reflects the day in which the Internet had a world-wide validation of the IPv6 protocol. IPv6 supports additional hosts,…
5 years of Raspberry Pi – Happy Birthday to the makers board of choice
Five years ago, my son obtained a Raspberry Pi. I'd heard a lot about the $35 board that had been in the news, and how it was supposed to bring…
Linux is 25 years old
It doesn't seem that long since I wrote this blog post: Happy Birthday: Linux is 20 years old. The time has come around again, and now today is Linux's 25th…
The Register: 40 years ago Vikings plundered Mars
An anniversary is marked by The Register, that of the NASA Viking missions to Mars, the first of which landed on July 20, 1976. And since I can just about…
LEO is 60 years old
The LEO Computers Society celebrated today with a lunch of at the Science Museum. The first regular business application used within the world was used 60 years ago today. This…
Happy anniversary – Android is 4 years old
I can't quite believe that the android platform is already four years old. (well I can, since the recent Android 4.0 (Ice-Cream Sandwich) announcement.) Google were expected to make an…
Happy Birthday: Linux is 20 years old
So Linux is 20.. It's come a long way from the home-brew operating system that was for IBM-AT clones that Linus Torvalds imagined back then. At the time he was…
A brief history of the IBM PC, thirty years on.
30 years ago today, a new office automation device was officially launched by IBM at the Waldorf Astoria hotel in New York. August 12, 1981, marked the launch of the…