Today is Debian‘s 20 anniversary. Debian is a free operating system (OS) for your computer. Debian started as Linux distribution, but Debian systems currently use the Linux kernel or the FreeBSD kernel (work is in progress to provide Debian for other kernels). Debian was begun in August 1993 by Ian Murdock, as a new distribution →
The History of CTRL + ALT + DELETE article tells that in spring 1981 David Bradley created a keyboard shortcut that triggered a system reset without the memory tests. In the fall of 1981, the IBM PC hit shelves. It wasn’t until the early 1990s, when Microsoft’s Windows took off, that the shortcut came to →
Retrotechtacular: First laser transmitter built 50 years ago article tells about a hack is as cool today as it was fifty years ago. It was an experiment performed May 3rd and 4th, 1963, which involved sending data (audio in this case) over long distances using a laser. The team had to hack together everything for →
Image of the Day: The World Wide Web celebrates its 20-year anniversary article tells that April 30, 2013 marks the 20 year anniversary of the World Wide Web. World Wide Web was put into the public domain on April 30, 1993. The World Wide Web was created few years earlier (1989) by British physicist, Tim →
The mobile phone turns 40 years old article tells that the first mobile phone was used by Martin Cooper to phone a rival at AT&T’s Bell Labs on 3 April 1973. Happy birthday mobile phone! Now it is estimated by the International Telecommunications Union that there are six billion mobile phone subscriptions in the world, →
Ethernet is 40 years old. In 1973, Bob Metcalfe sent an internal memo for a LAN design. Ethernet at 40: Its daddy reveals its turbulent youth is a well worth to read article that tells about the youth of Ethernet and why it became the dominant LAN standard. It also tells how much Ethernet owes →
At year 2011 we saw the passing of many of the electronics and computer industry’s greatest engineers and inventors. Several electronics great electronics inventors and related people died in year 2012. Here is my list of people that I have seen mentioned on different news sources: Hans Camenzind was Swiss emigre analog guru who invented →
Happy birthday, Transistor article tells that the first working version of transistor, the ubiquitous building block of all electronic circuits, was powered up 65 years ago today. The device is jointly credited to William Shockley (1910-1989), John Bardeen (1908-1991) and Walter Brattain (1902-1987), and it was Bardeen and Brattain who operated the first working point-contact →
The LED As We Know It Is 50 Years Old Today. In 1962, 50 years ago today, Nick Holonyak Jr. and his team at GE invented the Light Emitting Diode. While LED lights are almost everywhere today, their initial development was ripe with uncertainty and competitive research. A direct result of another groundbreaking technology of →