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Tag: history

  • Wayback Machine: Now with 240,000,000,000 URLs

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    Wayback Machine: Now with 240,000,000,000 URLs Today we updated the Wayback Machine with much more data and some code improvements.  Now we cover from late 1996 to December 9, 2012 so you can surf the web as it was up until a month ago.  Also, we have gone from having 150,000,000,000 URLs to having 240,000,000,000…

  • Game On 2.0

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    For those of you enrolling in Introduction to Game Programming this year stop playing Dwarf Fortress, and who isn’t, and get down to OMSI and see Game On 2.0!  Tell your parents it is educational, info from OMSI below: Play your way through the past, present, and future of global gaming. From Pong to Gran Turismo,…

  • The First Great Computer Game -> Lunar Lander

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    Forty Years of Lunar Lander In 1969, an Apollo-crazy high school student wrote one of the most influential computer games of all time. Benj Edwards of Technologizer has a nice summary of the history of Lunar Lander and the High School student who wrote one of the first computer games of all time. It started…

  • 20 years ago, the World Wide Web was born

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    20 years ago, the World Wide Web was born – SiliconValley.com By Elise Ackerman Mercury NewsPosted: 03/12/2009 01:24:59 PM PDT It all began 20 years ago today with a frustrated 29-year-old programmer who had a passion for order. Tim Berners-Lee, now famous as the founder of the World Wide Web, was working as an obscure…