In the early 1980s, computers were far from the light and thin machines they are today. While these models were no longer the room-size machines they had been decades prior, they were still clunky, ...

When you consider the leaps and innovations in computing from the 1980s to the modern day, it seems almost dizzying. We went from 8-bit processors to 64-bit processors in 20 years. If you told someone ...

When you think about today’s internet, it’s full of buzzwords like NFT, AI, SEO, IoT, Machine Learning, Blockchain, and the [ ...

One way or another, you’re interacting with operating systems. Your smartphone uses one, and your tablet and laptop do as well. However, little is said about how the ways we interact with our ...

When you think about how to communicate on today’s internet, places like Reddit and online forums are key. Unlike social media, which is more free-for-all, online forums allow a closed-loop ...

Exploring history's stories and how they shape us.

In 2024, the idea of a computer virus is nothing new, as these computer threats are, unfortunately, common enough. When it comes to cybersecurity, the idea of a computer virus is a major concern.

If you have ever owned a computer, especially over previous decades, you know that the type of storage used has changed many times. Thankfully, we’re long removed from the days of hard drives taking ...

Computers need programming languages to function. That’s just a simple fact of life. However, these languages didn’t just spring up out of nowhere. They were developed by people for explicit purposes.

Floppy disks, if you’re older than 30, you likely remember these from school. In the days before CD-Rs, thumb drives, and Dropbox, it was the only viable way to store data portable. Where did they get ...

BBS, or bulletin board systems, were one of the big reasons to hop on the internet in the 1980s. We didn’t have the means or ability to connect to media-rich sites. The tech simply wasn’t there.