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Happy Birthday, Firefox!

It's hard to believe, but Firefox celebrated its first birthday yesterday. Okay, technically the browser has been around a lot longer, and can even trace its roots back well over a dozen years to NCSA Mosaic. But the Firefox team considers November ...

Happy 16th Birthday WWW

The World Wide Web turned 16 on Monday! And it looks like we missed its birthday. Nonetheless, we still wish it a happy birthday, and thanks for all of the good times. According to the W3.org site, this URL held the fist web page ...

Happy Birthday Hack A Day!

I can't believe it's been a year since the first capitalization-challenged post at our sister blog Hack A Day. They're counting the milestones, blowing out candles, and picking their favorites over there, so head on over and wish them a happy Hack A ...

Happy 15th birthday, WWW!

On August 6, 1991--15 years ago today--Tim Berners-Lee launched the World Wide Web with a message to the alt.hypertext newsgroup. In the message he says," The WWW project merges the techniques of information retrieval and hypertext to make an easy ...

Happy belated 25th Anniversary CD

Seems that we forgot to wish our good friend 'Compact Disk' a happy birthday on August 17th. It was that day in 1982 that the first CD was manufactured at a Philips factory in Langenhagen Germany, close to Hanover. Sony and Philips worked together ...

Five essential addons for new Firefox users (Happy fifth birthday, Firefox!)

Five years ago today, a new web browser arrived on the scene. Yes, it was Firefox 1.0. At the half-decade mark, Firefox has become a force to be reckoned with. Nearly one in four people on the Internet is now using Firefox - and that includes the ...

Happy 25th Birthday, Emoticon

Twenty Five years ago, a clever University professor added a colon to a right parenthesis and thus changed the course of human events. Ok, maybe we're overstating the social and cultural impact of the emoticon but, you'll have to admit, love them or ...

Googleholic for April 3rd 2007

In this issue of Googleholic we cover: Google's April fools jokes Live art at Google New Orleans live satellite imagery Google Apps crashes Happy Birthday Google Russia Google TV's secret location Continue reading Tuesday's ...

Googleholic for September 28th 2007

In this issue of Googleholic we cover: Happy 9th Birthday Google! YouTube and Checkout for non-profits Virtual Google Google eyeing Sirius? Blurring is the way to get StreetView into Canada PageRank up in the air Continue reading ...

Engadget has crazy fans who bake

I am both delighted and alarmed by the winners of Engadget's birthday cake contest. In case you hadn't heard, Engadget has been celebrating its 2nd birthday and ran a contest for the prize was a really sweet Alienware PC. The challenge was to bake ...

MyGads remembers your wife's birthday

Besides having a funny name, MyGads allows you to remember things that you might not always have the answer to. This web 2.0 service allows you to input information that you want to remember later, then when you need the information, you can ...

The IBM PC turns 25, my wife turns *cough*

On this August 12, 2006 the IBM PC turns 25. I guess this makes the IBM PC an antique. Has it really been that long? It is pretty amazing how far the PC has come since IBM starting making them. Twelve engineers developed the first IBM PC called the ...

GIMP 10th anniversary splash screen winner announced

Open source image editing program the GIMP is celebrating its 10th birthday and to commemorate it they held a contest to design a splash screen. The winner, announced this week, is "Dialed In" by an artist called ix. The winning splash ...

Happy Halloween! Help yourself to these moldy old posts

Halloween costumes from the Internet: happy Hallo-meme! Stepping away from the computer for a few hours to trick or treat or go to a costume party doesn't mean you have to leave the internet behind. Six ...

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The World's Hardest Game 2.0 - Time Waster

So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do. Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game. The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...

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