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Spam Is Now Dead Meat
0 Comments Published April 21st, 2006 in the following Categories:Big Picture || Network Security || History
by J Schipper
Other than the canned meat sold by Hormel, the term spam is used to describe unsolicited bulk email. It is rumored that the term Spam came from an old Monty Python comedy sketch about a restaurant where every item on the menu came with an order of Spam. Certainly this is an accurate […]
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- Securing Your Email In An Insecure World
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It’s a Binary World - How computers count.
0 Comments Published March 29th, 2006 in the following Categories:Big Picture || Computer Addressing || History || How To...
by Tony Stockill
Many have cursed their computer for taking things too literally! It’s easy to blame the computer when something goes wrong.
You get to the checkout at the market, and the item you bought ‘on special’ comes up at the full price. The manager has to be called to fix it up, and what […]
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- Holy cow! This was my first computer, c. 1963
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Documentary on the state of the Internet in 1972
0 Comments Published March 20th, 2006 in the following Categories:History
From Cory Doctorow:
This 1972 documentary entitled “Computer Networks: The Heralds of Resource Sharing” covers the early years of ARPAnet, the precursor of the Internet, through interviews with the heroes of the internetworking revolution. Tightly wound internetworking geeks like the legendary JCR Licklider intensely recite the benefits that internetworking will shortly deliver, sliding in digs at […]