August 11, 2010
The Pascal programming language, which was based on the ALGOL computer language, was developed in the late 1960′s and was named after Blaise Pascal — a French mathematician, responsible for a series of discoveries and who also invented the first calculator (called Pascaline) in 1645. Considering that Pascal died in 1662 and that the Pascal [...]
August 1, 2010
Almost everyone nowadays uses the Internet. Stuff like Facebook, email, chat, Twitter and YouTube wouldn’t be there without the Internet. But while the web is so useful and easy to use these days only a few understand how it functions. If you have ever wondered about it, it’s time to find out. We have made [...]
July 15, 2010
Boredom is something that is hard to come by these days but it does happen. One way to take the edge off your boredom is to catch up with your favorite webcam. In this article I will be sharing some of the best free web cams to watch to help you and your boredom. There [...]
July 5, 2010
Before 1983, visiting a host on a network required typing in its IP address. Fortunately, the domain name system (DNS) was invented to allow numerical IP addresses to be identified with domain names. So now, instead of having to remember a long sequence of numbers like 74.125.67.104, you only have to remember Google.com. The definition [...]
June 19, 2010
Today it’s pretty uncommon to scan a Windows computer and not find at least one virus. These pieces of self-replicating code mimic their genetic namesake, spreading themselves as quickly as possible. They are so much a part of modern life that you’d think they were around since the first computer. They weren’t. These modern marvels [...]
May 10, 2010
There is an overwhelming amount of information on the Internet, whether you’re getting it through your RSS reader, through Twitter, Facebook or from your favourite website. Aggregators aim to make filtering through the most popular online content just a little bit easier, whether it’s based on your own personal preferences, or simply based on what’s [...]
April 30, 2010
Social networking is a daily activity for most of us. Anyone paying attention knows that sites like Facebook and Twitter have hundreds of millions of users and are extremely popular. But one thing I think we all forget from time to time is that these social networking sites are businesses. They do have employees and [...]
April 16, 2010
Our family loves hunting for treasures. We mostly meet our needs through geocaching, but we also like to visit and photograph abandoned places and trains. There is something sweet about remembering things that have been forgotten. One of our favorite local finds was an old jail “holding house” in the middle of the woods here. [...]
March 26, 2010
According to InterestingFacts, “the world’s tallest man ever recorded in the history of mankind, Robert Wadlow, was born in Alton, Illinois, in 1918, and was 6 feet tall by the time he was even eight years old. He suffered from the disorder Gigantism that makes the lower portions of the body extremely large, while the [...]
March 23, 2010
A few weeks ago, I wrote an article entitled How Does Facebook Work? The Nuts and Bolts detailing how Facebook operates as part of our Technology Explained series. In the article, I covered the technologies behind the social giant. Today, I’m going to answer another fundamental question we all have about Facebook – how did [...]
