Tagged: history

The great panic: the world’s first computer virus (Video)

“The Only thing we have to fear is fear itself” – Franklin D. Roosevelt How do you respond when a seemingly safe and impenetrable system is penetrated? We all know now to be wary of internet data, and that everything on the connected web is vulnerable, but this fascinating clip from 1988 exemplifies this issue at its heart, when we had just realized the...

How the BitCoin Crash is the Opposite of Modern?

Today’s post is written by guest author, Simon Burns. Over the course of the 1630’s, tulips grew in value for no apparent reason. The resulting “tulipmania” built prices up to 10 times the salary of a skilled worker or several thousand times their original trading price. This exponential run was much more to do with the perceived investment value of tulips than the market...

Happy International Pi Day

Happy National Pie Day! Today (at least in the world of mm-dd-yy dates) is 3/14/13, a time when we celebrate pi, everyones favorite number. Enjoy this video on the history of pi, and those of you who are nerdy enough can point out that this post was published at 3/14 at 1:59:26, getting as close to Pi as possible. That’s actually called International Pi...

Apple Co-founder “Steve [Jobs] Didn’t Have To Be So Much of a Bastard (video)

Usually Apple’s co-founder Steve Wozniak has only good things to say about Steve Jobs, but in this in video he  leaks some of his true feelings and tensions on the deceased Apple cofounder. Towards the end, when asked about the departure of Apple’s Scott Forestall, he says “I don’t believe Steve had to be as much of a rugged bastard, putting people down and...

How Macs are Made [Video Factory Tour]

There once was a time when the Macintosh was manufactured in the USA, in Fremont, California. At the time, Apple was a more transparent company, and they made a video showcasing the process by which the mac was made and tested in that factory. This factory was Steve Jobs’s pride and joy. He built it from the ground up to look good, instead of...