December 2001 Entries

20 Years of Usenet

From Google: "Google has fully integrated the past 20 years of Usenet archives into Google Groups, which now offers access to more than 700 million messages dating back to 1981. We believe this to be the most complete collection of Usenet articles ever assembled and a fascinating first-hand historical account. We are compiling some especially memorable articles and threads in the timeline below. For example, read Tim Berners-Lee's announcement of what became the World Wide Web or Linus Torvalds' first post about his "pet project". If you come across other noteworthy posts while searching the archive, please forward them to...

posted @ Thursday, December 13, 2001 4:52 AM | Feedback (0)

Web server on a Tandy 8088

One of my good friends who likes to play with old technology and make it do something weird and unusal sent me a link to his latest experiment. It seems he has turned a Tandy 8088 into a web server. That is right, 8088, Tandy, web server. The software "Our cool 8088 web server runs a custom version of JNOS, a KA9Q NET variant. There does not seem to be any central support site for this stuff, but you may find much of it simply seraching for "JNOS". Our server runs MSDOS version 3.1 + JNOS 1.11f and was custom compiled...

posted @ Thursday, December 06, 2001 3:25 AM | Feedback (0)

New personal way to travel unveiled

There is a new way to travel as of today. Inventory Dean Kamen has created a personal travel device designed for a single rider. It can travel at 12 miles per hour and doesn't even have breaks. There are links all over the place if you happen to miss this, here are a couple: Cnn NyTimes (better with screen shot) ABC News (exclusive) Listening to the ABC News broadcast they are suppose to be available in a few weeks.

posted @ Monday, December 03, 2001 3:45 PM | Feedback (0)