Games used to be good then they took an arrow in the knee
I grew up in the good old 8-bit glory days of gaming when games were good and geeks weren’t chic. Now trend whores have hijacked ‘geek’ and made it ‘geeky’ apparently they decided that the geek look was in, to the ire of real geeks, ever since it became ok to be a real geek. [...]
The Future of the Internet — And How to Stop It
What!? Why would you want to stop the future of the internet!? Because the internet, PCs and technology in general is becoming more closed, we are drifting back to the walled gardens of the 80s internet services. In the 80s a time before before the World Wide Web (WWW) existed there were services like AOL, [...]
Saturday shorts: Sebastian’s Voodoo
Can a voodoo doll find the courage to stop his friends from being pinned to death?
Commercialising the internet
I don’t think that many people realise that the internet, as we know it today, wasn’t always commercial, i.e. that it wasn’t always accessible to the general public via an ISP by paying them a monthly fee for an internet access plan. The internet has been around for 42 years depending on when you start [...]
Saturday shorts
I’m still optimistic that Half-Life Episode 3 will be released in my life time. I’m likely to be 78 and my arthritis will be too bad for me to use a keyboard and mouse, that’s if we are still using keyboards and mice as input devices. But until then I’ll have to be content with [...]
Beastie Boys – Fight For Your Right (Revisited)
Back in April the Beastie Boy released this video to celebrate the 25th anniversary of their debut album. Be warned it’s NSFW in any way shape or form, but it is seriously hilarious, I was crying with laughter.
A short history of e-mail
E-mail, it was one of, if not, the first ‘killer app’ for the internet. Anyone that has an internet connection more likely than not has an email address, a lot of people have more than one email address. There’s the personal e-mail address, the work e-mail address and any other number of email addresses for [...]
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