Category Archives: Digital life

A secret text adventure game is hidden into Google Chrome – and it’s compelling!

Posted on October 2, 2018 by Stefano

Fancy a nice old-style text-adventure game? Look no further than Google! It’s quite simple, all you need is Google Chrome (updated). Type in search box “Text adventure” then open the developer console with: CTRL-SHIFT-I if you’re a PC user, CMD-Option-I … Continue reading →

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Happy #InternautDay: World Wide Web turns 25!

Posted on August 23, 2016 by Stefano

Happy 25th birthday World Wide Web! Well, actually, as reported here, Sir Tim Berners-Lee submitted on March 9th 1991 a draft of WWW/HTTP to his boss, Mike Sendall, who was not really excited about it… On August 6th the very … Continue reading →

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TheFacebook.com in 2004: Mark Zuckerberg discusses his 100k users social network

Posted on April 23, 2016 by Stefano

12 years ago, a much younger Mark Zuckerberg talks about his brand new TheFacebook.com social network. Seems so amazing, right now: 12 years and one billion users later… 😉 11 years ago today, someone named Mark Zuckerberg appeared on CNBC … Continue reading →

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May 26th 1995: Bill Gates writes about the “Internet Tidal Wave”

Posted on May 26, 2015 by Stefano

20 years have gone since this internal memo, aimed at Microsoft Executives, in which Bill Gates himself talked about the “Internet Tidal Wave” and provided a strategic point of view for a MS-dominated ‘Net; the memo surfaced during the prolonged … Continue reading →

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A pocketful of early Internet Service Providers greeting packs from 1994.

Posted on March 1, 2015 by Stefano

Digging in my vintage-computer mess, I found this pack from Xmas 1994 – labelled Software ETC.   I barely reminded that a long-time friend, Claudio, brought me this stuff from a trip in the USA – where early Internet was … Continue reading →

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Google’s Vint Cerf warns of ‘digital Dark Age’, talks about ‘digital obsolescence’

Posted on February 15, 2015 by Stefano

Vinton Cerf (now a VP at Google) talks about how we should take care about our “digital heritage” in this BBC video-interview. Vint Cerf, a “father of the internet”, says he is worried that all the images and documents we … Continue reading →

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#Drones in the future (according to New York Magazine)

Posted on October 15, 2014 by Stefano

Aptly titled “Drones and everything after”, this long article by Benjamin Wallace-Wells featured in the latest issue of NYMag is an excellent compendium of ‘drone experiences‘ around the US and the world alike. Several real-world examples are given about how … Continue reading →

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Vermeer’s legacy? Tim Jenison investigates paintings, photography, art and computer graphics

Posted on July 26, 2014 by Stefano

Texas-based CGI specialist Tim Jenison is someone that has crossed my life a long time ago with his mind-blowing products. In 1986, when I bought my Amiga 1000, Tim Jenison was the founder of NewTek, which was so famous, back … Continue reading →

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Blast from the Windows-past: how to delete file & folders from NTFS drive with wrong names & nested folders

Posted on July 2, 2014 by Stefano

You never learn enough… (about Windows, I mean). Problem. During a routine backup operation, I found a Windows NTFS drive contained several files and folders which could not be deleted due to wrong naming. Yes, it’s 2014 and we’re still … Continue reading →

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How the future of electronic communications looked like in 1982: Compuserve’s “Welcome to someday”

Posted on June 17, 2014 by Stefano

$5 per hour: that’s how much it cost in 1982 to get on the ‘Net. Well, actually, not Internet: just Compuserve, with its e-mail services. As Wikipedia reports: The original CompuServe Information Service, later rebranded as CompuServe Classic, was shut … Continue reading →

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