Sunday Reboot — January 21, 2024.
Happy Sunday, friends!
Tag: history.
Long Live ASCII Art.
I came of age on The Internet at a time when images and the web went hand-in-hand. The proliferation of the animated GIF in the personal web page scene was an aesthetic that defines the web in the time of Y2K (and one that I used to great effect on...
From the Kitchen of...
About two years ago, just a few months before the COVID-19 pandemic turned the world upside down, my grandmother passed away.
The Linux (R)evolution.
I first discovered my passion for computers on the day my dad brought home our first family computer nearly 20 years ago. While it would be a few more years before that passion turned into an obsession bordering on insanity, the desire to create things out of intangible bits and...
Apple, Updates, and You.
Just over a year after the launch of Microsoft Windows 98, Apple Computer released the next and final version of their “Classic” Mac OS operating system, Mac OS 9. In typical Apple fashion, the months leading up to the release of OS 9 were marked by increasing hype, aggressive marketing,...
Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Microsoft Windows Updates.
In the summer of 1998, Microsoft released the next version of their flagship Windows operating system, Windows 98. While Windows 98 is often remembered as the operating system that defined desktop computing for the majority of users in the late 90s, it included a particularly unique feature that changed the...
The Rise and Fall of the Free Lance.
Originally coined as a term to describe mercenary soldiers, the phrase “free lance” has come a long way in the past 200 years. Sir Walter Scott, originator of the term, first wrote it in the book Ivanhoe in 1820: I offered Richard the service of my Free Lances, and he...