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50 shades of Cray

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This post is all about Cray computers.

Futuretech '92

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The Canadian government flew the top 125 students out to Calgary for Canada's 125th anniversary. I was one of them.

The future of smartphones

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Every technology goes through a series of reinventions as it evolves. In this post, we'll examine where smartphones are right now and where they are going.

2016 in review

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Here's what happened this year!

10 years of Facebook humour

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As I was searching around my Facebook settings the other day, I noticed that there was a section that allows you to download your whole Facebook archive of posts and pictures. So I did that and noticed that I’ve posted some pretty funny stuff since I joined in 2007.

An evening with The Woz

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Steve Wozniak (a.k.a. The Woz) was one of the keynote speakers at yesterday’s Fuzenation Technology & Music Summit in Kitchener, Ontario.

The Linux operating system turns 25 years old today

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Linux was created during the same month Tim Berners-Lee created the World Wide Web. Coincidence? I think not.

The World Wide Web turns 25 years old today

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Last month, I posted a blog post detailing NeXT and how Tim Berners-Lee used a NeXT workstation at CERN to create the World Wide Web. I guess you could call that foreshadowing, since today marks the 25th anniversary of the World Wide Web!

The dawn of personal computing

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The coolest oil painting for a vintage computer enthusiast (such as myself).

Some NeXT level stuff

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I managed to get some NeXT workstations this week from a former colleague of mine who also collects vintage computers. For those who don't know what a NeXT workstation is, it's essentially the UNIX system that became Mac OS X, as well as the UNIX system that Tim Berners-Lee used to create the world's first Web server using his new protocol called HTTP (Hyper-Text Transfer Protocol).