Tag Archives: History

Pirating Is a Crime

Piracy is a crime. Don’t pirate things. They’re serious about it. There are real reasons [...]

Sony’s DRM Nightmare

In 2005, an organization had been covertly installing a program similar to a rootkit onto [...]

Don’t Delete Your System32

System 32 is essentially the heart of the computer’s software. Task manager, the boot-up instructions, [...]

Memory Terms

The first Bit of Data A bit is a single character in binary, and actually [...]

The Train That Breaks Itself

If you’ve paid any attention to big tech in the last several years, you’ll probably [...]

Optical Memory

Optical storage is defined by IBM as any storage medium that uses a laser to [...]

Magnetic Memory

Magnetic Tape The most well-known version of tape-based magnetic storage is the kind used for [...]

The Awareness of Future Cringe Past

The Concept of Cringe What is ‘cringe’? To cringe is to jerk away from a [...]

VHS Tapes and Analog Horror

What is it about the humble VHS tape that inspires such magnetism from the horror [...]

Varieties of Screens

There are many different screens. From gigantic vacuum-tube TVs to the flattest of the flat [...]