An Accidental WordPress Experiment. Last week, I accidentally did an experiment with my WordPress site (yes, this one). The results of the experiment that I accidentally found that I’d done, were a bit surprising. I’ve also been searching for related information on the internet to see if anyone else had experienced a similar kind of […]
Boris Johnson’s Website Comments on his Tenure. Even Boris Johnson’s website doesn’t like him. It turns out that even Boris Johnson’s website doesn’t like him, and feels strongly enough about this to error in a suitable fashion. An invalid response and a protocol error (just the one?) seems a suitably apt way for a piece
heroes of the internet part one, Charles Babbage and Ada Lovelace. Heroes of the internet part one: Although it sounds like something out of a steampunk based parallel universe, the earliest computers ran on handles and cogs, and were conceived in a time before electricity, microchips and Pong… and arguably Christianity. Charles Babbage and his
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Heroes of the Internet Part Two: Alan Turing. In the first half of the twentieth century, back when doctors still precribed cigarettes, is really when the fundamental ideas of modern day computing first began to emerge. It was during this time that a computer model was described that wasn’t limited to specific mathematical tasks, it
Heroes of the internet part 3: The US Military Much as it pains me to type it, the US Military play a key part in the history of the internet. Why? Because they actually INVENTED THE INTERNET… and one of the first Turing complete computers. I guess that brings a whole new meaning to “WAR,
Heroes of the Internet Part 4: Tim Berners-Lee. Tim Berners-Lee (born 8 June 1955) is an Enhlish computer scientist that’s credited with being the inventor of the World Wide Web (not the internet, the US Military effectively invented the internet). It might also be a bit of a stretch to say that Tim Berners-Lee invented