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Domain Squatting

Elizabeth — Fri, 27 Aug 2021 23:17:20 +0000

You’re trying to get to a popular website run by a large soda company. You type in what you think is the URL on the bottle’s label, but you end up looking at a cat getting a single slice of American cheese thrown on its face, on loop. The sides of the website are […]

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A History of UFO-Spotting

Elizabeth — Wed, 25 Aug 2021 22:13:09 +0000

Eyewitness Accounts and The News – 1940’s on I’ll start when the modern day ‘flying saucer’ story started, although recordings of UFOs go back to BC times. The first UFO to start the ‘flying saucer’ trope in America actually wasn’t a saucer – it was a squad of ships shaped like boomerangs that rotated […]

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Selfie Culture

Elizabeth — Fri, 20 Aug 2021 22:53:10 +0000

Pictures, for the sake of Memories There’s nothing wrong with snapping pics at a concert, on a hike, or at the mall with friends. I firmly believe that there is nothing wrong with that. Pictures store memories. Scrolling back through your phone’s album or flipping through a physical one is meant to be a good […]

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General Remastering

Elizabeth — Mon, 16 Aug 2021 22:40:40 +0000

Remastering just means changing the original quality of the master copy of a piece of media, and you can remaster nearly anything – even if it’s already high-quality. A CD-quality movie can be remastered up into Blu-Ray. Songs from 2007 can be remastered to up the quality in 2020. Vinyls and VHSs can be remastered […]

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Different Kinds of Screens

Elizabeth — Wed, 14 Jul 2021 22:00:38 +0000

There are many different screens. From gigantic vacuum-tube TVs to the flattest of the flat home theater displays, TVs come in all shapes and sizes. Here’s a brief history of the popular ones. LCD: Liquid Crystal Display – Big Screen, Little Equipment LCDs, or liquid crystal displays, are what they sound like: liquid crystals are […]

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The World of Crypto Scams

Elizabeth — Mon, 12 Jul 2021 16:52:12 +0000

Yep – it’s mainstream now. What is Cryptocurrency? A cryptocurrency is a digital currency protected by cryptography. Just like physical currency, the digital coin is representative of a certain amount of value – you own a Bitcoin, you have the equivalent of 36,000 USD. You own an Ethereum coin, you have the equivalent of about […]

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Podcasts, Podcasts Everywhere

Elizabeth — Fri, 09 Jul 2021 20:44:47 +0000

Tech advancements leading to podcasts being everywhere. What happened? There was a time when podcasts were an obscure form of entertainment. After all, in the early days of the internet, storage space for mobile devices was precious. The Before Times Podcasts used to be pretty rare, back when CDs were the main […]

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Portable Phones: A Brief History and Selection

Elizabeth — Mon, 28 Jun 2021 21:59:34 +0000

The smartphone of today has a lot of ancestors, and some of them were pretty bulky. Translated to Modern Times The first couple of portable phones were… weird. The brick phone: the brick phone’s pretty well-known! It was sometimes used in movies to demonstrate how high tech the star’s organization was. Portable phones were huge […]

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First Computer ‘Bug’

Elizabeth — Fri, 25 Jun 2021 22:55:16 +0000

Behold, a common moth. It died stuck in the newest Harvard Mark II after being caught in a relay. But there’s some misconception over whether or not this is why errors are called ‘bugs’, and the rest of the story’s sometimes forgotten. Here’s a brief overview – there’s links at the end for more information […]

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Emulators: Legal Gray Area

Elizabeth — Mon, 21 Jun 2021 22:40:03 +0000

History of the Emulator An emulator is a program that emulates a game console, usually for the purpose of playing a game that is – either by price, age, or device – inaccessible. Streamers commonly use emulators to play Pokemon games made for the Gameboy, so they can screen-record their gameplay directly from their […]

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