Monday, July 16, 2007

Sega Dreamcast

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Did you know that the Sega Dreamcast released in 1999 was the first console game machine to sport 128-bit architecture? The console had a 20...

David Levy

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In 1968, International Master David Levy made a $3,000 bet with John McCarthy, researcher in Artificial Intelligence at Stanford, that no ch...
Sunday, July 15, 2007

Sonic the Hedgehog

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Did you know that Sega released Sonic the Hedgehog in 1991 as a direct response to Nintendo's Super NES gaming system? The game capitali...
Friday, July 13, 2007

Alex Bernstein

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Alex Bernstein wrote a chess program in 1957 for an IBM 704, which could do 42,000 instructions per second and had a memory of 70K. This was...
Thursday, July 12, 2007

Screensavers

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Screensavers were originally designed to protect computer monitors from phosphor burn-in. Early CRT monitors had problems with the same imag...
Wednesday, July 11, 2007

Alick Glennie

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In 1952, Alick Glennie, who wrote the first computer compiler, defeated Alan Turing's chess program, TurboChamp. Alick was the first per...
Tuesday, July 10, 2007

The Hackers Manifesto

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The Hackers Manifesto is a small article written in 1986 by a hacker who went by the pseudonym of "The Mentor". The article is con...
Monday, July 09, 2007

Alan Turing

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In 1946, Alan Turing made his first reference to machine intelligence in connection with chess-playing and in the following year specified t...
Saturday, July 07, 2007

NEC Turbografx-16

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The NEC Turbografx-16, which was released in Japan in 1988 as the PC-Engine, was the first system to have a CD player attachment. It had an ...
Friday, July 06, 2007

Cationic Cocktail

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Cationic cocktail is a diluted fabric softener sprayed on computer room carpets to prevent static electricity from being built up by feet sh...