Posts Under General Geek Culture Category

Linux legend Lars Wirzenius takes a stroll down memory lane and recounts some great anecdotes about his university friend Linus…

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A statement from a new Wired News article on Sweden’s pro-piracy movement suddenly made sense of a whole lot of…

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On Tuesday 6 August 1991, Tim Berners-Lee responded to a message posted on alt.hypertext by Nari Kannan. Asked Kannan: Is…

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Everybody loves a Hoff story, and if it’s scandalous that makes it even better. Under the classic headline, “He’s Hoff…

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You know you’re a confirmed geek if you risk your life using a mobile phone to take a photograph of…

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A mail server attempting delivery of a message to Hotmail’s servers receives the following standard legalese: Connected to: hotmail.be (65.54.244.200…

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So Akeva rocks up with the latest online referral/pyramid scheme, known as Autosurfing. You download something, it takes over Internet…

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If there’s one thing I hate (among the thousands of other things) it’s Site of the Year nominations. The Webbies…

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Another excellent website on urban exploration: www.opacity.us. Several mental hospitals, a disused jail or two, and several industrial sites, all…

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The beginning of the end? Or at least the beginning of the end of the Google we used to know?…

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At last, more vindication for my unhealthy lifestyle. Coffee, it seems, is a good source of antioxidants. No, it won’t…

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First they brought us 43 Things, a community of people who have identified 43 things they would like to do….

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