History on Anything About IT

WatchTip: Triumph of the Nerds

Sun, 11 Dec 2011 16:36:29 +0000

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 of the Nerds: Impressing Their Friends 1/3 Triumph of the Nerds: Impressing Their Friends 2/3

 Triumph of the Nerds: Impressing Their Friends 3/3

Why a double click in the upper left corner closes the Window

Wed, 20 Apr 2011 16:02:36 +0000

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 Menu icon in the upper left corner as on the upper right side of the Window there were only buttons to minimize and maximize the Window.

Windows 95 turns 15, Windows 1.0 - 25

Fri, 27 Aug 2010 15:17:48 +0000

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.

More Windows Desktop OS History can be found here. What happened in 1985 here and in 1995 here.

And believe it or not, Windows 1.0 still runs :-)

There was a time…. (another one)

Fri, 06 Aug 2010 18:12:47 +0000

……. I’m in history mode again, here’s another nice Tech Commercial.

There was a time……

Fri, 06 Aug 2010 17:42:47 +0000

……..where you couldn’t just download forgotten or lost installation media from the internet or your company portal.

WatchTip: History of Citrix

Mon, 24 May 2010 19:54:21 +0000

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 go:

A Deep Dive Into the 20 Year History and Technical Developments of Citrix Systems, a video from BriForum 2009 (Highly recommend this one, very interesting !).

Palm Memories

Sun, 02 May 2010 19:27:21 +0000

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 connect our mobile phone to our PC and things magically start to synchronize, I can tell you this wasn’t the case then.

The History of Microsoft on Channel 9

Sat, 21 Feb 2009 06:33:43 +0000

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 you find them here.

An insight on error 404

Sat, 13 Dec 2008 19:08:09 +0000

Today we were at my oldest son football club year end party where someone told me a story about the meaning of the number 404, when you try to connect to a web site page that does not exist, you usually get an error 404 message. The number 404 is related to a room number at the CERN this person told me.

It just needed a Google search on “History of 404” to find a page that seems to be fully dedicated to Error 404. The “room number” story seems to be just a myth, according to the 404 Research Lab, no such room number exists at the CERN.

The HP Garage

Sun, 03 Aug 2008 18:00:37 +0000

It’s here where HP started……

See more pictures of the HP House here: http://www.kennethkuhn.com/hpmuseum/garage/

And the Garage timeline is documented here: http://www.hp.com/hpinfo/abouthp/histnfacts/garage/timeline.html

When Google was born

Thu, 31 Jul 2008 19:08:45 +0000

Using the the waybackmachine on archive.org allows you to see content of archived pages from the Internet.

So i thought, let’s have a look at the early days of Google.com

Google.com on November 11th 1998

Google.com on December 12th 1998

Then in September 1999 they launched officially. Read the announcement.

Google.com Today (July 31rd 2008).

For those interested the Google Milestones can be read here.