Throwback Thursday: Video Over Dial-Up
For most people today, streaming video over the Internet is easy. There are dozens of apps and websites where you can watch anything from college courses to music videos. You can watch your favorite movie on your smartphone, pause it,…
Throwback Thursday: Teens React to Windows 95
Watch as teenagers interact with a 21-year-old OS for the first time. <iframe width=”640″ height=”360″ src=”https://www.youtube.com/embed/8ucCxtgN6sc” frameborder=”0″ allowfullscreen></iframe> The teenagers are working on what looks like an early 1990s desktop with a Dell CRT monitor. The poor kids don’t even…
10 Best Reads of 2015
These are the best reads of 2015. The articles listed below come from a wide variety of sources. Some are from mainstream media outlets, others from independent outlets. Some are opinion pieces, some are news articles. But they all have…
Flashback Friday: The Zip disk
The late ’90s, when floppy disks were still in common use. Of course, the average formatted floppy disk only held 1.44MB of data. How would you store massive amounts of data in a portable format? Enter Iomega’s Zip disk. The…
The Greatest Enemies of Electronic Devices
In my post Why I Call Myself a Digital Hygienist, I promised to show you how to keep your electronic devices safe from harm. Today, I will write about the greatest enemies of electronic devices. These three things will drastically shorten…
Throwback Thursday: Toys “R” Us Website Disaster
The year was 1999. Online commerce was hitting its stride and the dot com bubble was still growing. Amazon was beginning its ascent to the top of the food chain. As Americans began to embrace the idea of doing all…
Flashback Friday: The Clipper Chip
The recent terrorist attack in France has once again reignited debate over encrypted communications. Many people in law enforcement and government have come out in favor of building a “backdoor” accessible only to authorities. This recent controversy over cryptography and the…
Why I Call Myself a Digital Hygienist
Many articles about interviewing for a job will tell you that one of the oldest clichés is to describe yourself as a “detail-oriented perfectionist.” This is to be avoided because the use of this phrase makes the interviewer think that…
Apple: Luxury Computing
This is part one of a series on the parallels between computers and clothing. Pre-orders for the Apple Watch began April 10. The first review I read was not from a tech website, but from the fashion website Style.com. The reviewer compared the Apple Watch to the luxury watches some of her acquaintances wore…
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