Contents tagged with History
A Message to My Silverlight Peeps
Drawing inspiration from history, here’s my message to Silverlight developers.
Seventy Years After Pearl Harbor
Let’s pause to remember that 70 years ago today, the United States was attacked in a Day of Infamy. The survivors of the attack gathered today for the last time: During the ceremony, a group of survivors of the Dec. 7, 1941, attack announced that they would disband at the end of the month. William …
Know Your Roots: Internet History
The Internet Timeline begins in 1962, before the term ‘Internet’ was coined. 10,000 computers existed worldwide. To us, they would look very primitive. Despite a price tag of hundreds of thousands of dollars, they have just a few thousand bytes of magnetic core memory. Programming them is no easy …
71 Years After the Day of Infamy
Remember those who died in the attack on Pearl Harbor 71 years ago. From WikiPedia: Ships lost or damaged (emphasis added) Battleships Arizona: Exploded; total loss. 1,177 dead. Oklahoma: Capsized, 429 dead. Refloated November 1943; capsized and lost while under tow to the mainland May 1947 [91] …