Those who follow my blog since a while may have noticed that I have always been interested and fascinated about he history of how everything started around computers. Today I’ve come across this 3 part documentary called “Triumph of the Nerds”. A very interesting documentary how things started around the Personal Computer. Enjoy ! Triumph [...]
Why a double click in the upper left corner closes the Window
Ever wondered why a double click in the upper left corner closes the Window although there is no close icon? Well I have no proof for this, but assume that this is because in the early days of Windows, the only way to close a Window with the mouse was to DoubleClick on the Window [...]
Windows 95 turns 15, Windows 1.0 – 25
There’s a lot of talk about Windows 95 in these days as it’s 15 years ago when Windows 95 was launched. Well if all are so much in “Operating System Birthday” celebration mode, then let’s not forget that soon it will be 25 years ago since Microsoft released the very first version of Windows 1.0. [...]
There was a time…. (another one)
……. I’m in history mode again, here’s another nice Tech Commercial.
There was a time……
……..where you couldn’t just download forgotten or lost installation media from the internet or your company portal.
WatchTip: History of Citrix
Those who are following my blog on a regular basis know that I am also interested in the history of IT. Since in these days Citrix (especially XenDesktop) has a high ranking on my personal list of interests, I spend some time today to find some information about the History of Citrix. So here we [...]
Palm Memories
This week HP announced to acquire Palm. Palm?, oh yeah those that created the Palm Pilot. I remember well, it was somewhere around 1996 and 1997 when several of our users users came up with this thing called Palm PDA and wanted to synchronize their calendars with our E-Mail system Lotus Notes. Nowadays we just [...]
The early days of personal computing
While usually we focus on what is happening today and what might come tomorrow, it’s quite interesting to look back in a while and learn how we actually got there. By searching the web for historical tech content, I came across the website of the computer history museum located in Mountain View – California. I [...]
The History of Microsoft on Channel 9
Interested in how it all started off at Microsoft ? On Channel 9 a new series call “History of Microsoft” has started. A new episode is being released every Thursday. So far the following episodes have been published: History of Microsoft 1975 History of Microsoft 1976 History of Microsoft 1977 As new episodes come out [...]

