The timeless genius of a 1980s Atari developer and his swimming salmon masterpiece
In 1982, while most game developers were busy with space invaders and maze ghosts, Bill Williams created something far more ...
An artist’s vision that transformed technology without writing a single line of code — here’s how it happened
Susan Kare, an artist without a computer science background, revolutionized early computer interface design in the 1980s. Her ...
Looking back at the early days of video games and home computing
NORFOLK, Va. — Video games have been part of our lives for decades. Kids and adults have been entranced by the glowing screen of new worlds, battles, and triumph; it’s an addiction that first began in ...
I've been covering Microsoft, DOS, and Windows since the 1980s, and Microsoft turning 50 is more important than you think
The Mac slowly chipped away at Windows' global market share, though Apple still has just 25% of the overall desktop market.
Microsoft at 50: what the brand's done right
As a result, on 4 April 1975, Microsoft was born. Soon after, the company secured a deal to provide the operating system for ...
Microsoft celebrates 50 years of adapting to change
Over half a century, the company has introduced technologies including the Windows operating system, the Azure cloud, video ...
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Evolution and Growth: The History of Penetration Testing
The history of penetration testing begins with military strategies used to test enemy defenses. Over time, this evolved into a formal practice for identifying vulnerabilities in computer systems. This ...
Llama AI on Windows 98 PC? Marc Andreessen reveals 'experiment', says we could’ve been chatting with PCs since the ‘90s
Marc Andreessen suggested that the technology enabling natural, human-like interactions with computers might have been ...
Tiny Macintosh Classic-style PC with flip-up display is actually a Windows powerhouse
If you've already heard of Ayaneo's original AM01 retro mini PC, then this newer model should be pretty familiar. The AM01S retains the same cute, chunky ...
Microsoft's Windows 98 can run Meta's Llama AI model on just 128MB of RAM: "We could have been talking to our computers for 30 years now."
Andreessen Horowitz's co-founder recently revealed that a small Llama AI model successfully ran on Windows 98.
Microsoft’s timeline, from its birth in 1975 to age 50
Former Lakeside School students Bill Gates and Paul Allen found Micro-Soft, a portmanteau of microcomputer and software, in ...