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For over 20 years, Justin Hall has shared his life online. From a 19-year-old student experimenting with sex, drugs, and the Internet, readers have followed the most intimate details of his life, including his father’s suicide, a failed startup, a marriage and painful divorce. Now, one of blogging’s pioneers is making an...

Just a place to discuss the history of computing and its impact on society...

Brought to you by Marcel Brown, The Most Trusted Name in Technology, This Day in Tech History highlights important events in the history of technology, posted in a daily blog. If you know of events that you would like highlighted, please feel free to contact me using the form below.

In the Computer Hope computer history timeline, you’ll find a detailed listing of key events that have occurred during the evolution of computers, the Internet, and related technologies. This timeline includes births and deaths of famous computer pioneers, inventions, discoveries, dates when computer companies were...

In the Beginning, ARPA created the ARPANET....

A blast from the past; I’ve been re-visiting a lot of the older media that put me on the path I’m on now

An overview of the history, hardware, and software of the CBM 8032 from the perspective of a vintage computer collector. How do the pros and cons stack up, what games can you play on it, and is it worth the cost?

The three classic Kim Justice videos covering the life and career of Jack Tramiel in boxset, from the terrors of his younger days, his glory years in charge of Commodore and overseeing computers like the C64, and his war with his former company at the head of Atari with the ST. Enjoy!...

Long before it became the commercialized mass information and entertainment juggernaut it is today, long before it was accessible to the general public, and certainly many years before Al Gore claimed he “took the initiative in creating” it, the Internet – and its predecessors – were a focal point for social...

Long before the Internet escaped from the lab, connected the planet and redefined what it meant to use a computer…there was a brave and pioneering band of computer users who spent their time, money and sanity setting up their home computers and phone lines to welcome anyone who called. By using a modem, anyone else who knew...