history of the internet

  1. overscan (PaulMM)

    Crowdstrike causes world-wide IT outages

    So, our new security manager was talking about bringing in Crowdstrike where I work. Hopefully this idea will now be kiboshed after Crowdstrike deployed an update which 1) made Windows servers and desktops crash 2) rendered Windows servers and desktops unable to boot The only fix is to boot...
  2. Grey Havoc

    China upgrades its Great Firewall

    Via Slashdot: https://www.theregister.com/2022/10/06/great_firewall_of_china_upgrades/
  3. Grey Havoc

    Log4Shell

    https://www.lunasec.io/docs/blog/log4j-zero-day/ https://apnews.com/article/technology-business-lifestyle-software-apple-inc-aed3cc628fc602079b100757974c8f01
  4. K

    Internet Archive - classic aviation magazines (Aviation Week, Flight etc.)

    Aviation News Archive: Aviation Week and Space Technology magazine has an archive for a fee service on their website. Archive.org actually has the same content for free. There are PDF format available, but it is low resolution. To get the highest resolution, choose CBZ format (which is a zip...
  5. Grey Havoc

    Adobe Flash Player finally bows out

    https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-55497353 https://games.slashdot.org/story/21/01/01/029259/its-game-over-for-farmville-as-flash-also-buys-the-farm https://tech.slashdot.org/story/20/12/31/0217256/adobe-now-shows-alerts-in-windows-10-to-uninstall-flash-player
  6. Grey Havoc

    50th Anniversary of the first Internet RFC (Request For Comment)

    Yesterday the 7th of April, strictly speaking. https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1 https://tech.slashdot.org/story/19/04/08/1340217/internet-rfc-series-turn-50
  7. Grey Havoc

    Why there is so little left of the early internet (BBC)

    http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20190401-why-theres-so-little-left-of-the-early-internet
  8. Grey Havoc

    OGAS - a planned Soviet national computer network

    The full name was 'The All-State Automated System for the Gathering and Processing of Information for the Accounting, Planning and Governance of the National Economy, USSR' (OGAS being a Russian acronym for the first four words). It has been described as the 'Soviet Internet'. It might be more...
  9. Grey Havoc

    End of the Internet as we know it, at least in Europe?

    https://www.reuters.com/article/us-eu-copyright/eu-lawmakers-agree-common-stand-on-copyright-reforms-idUSKCN1LS1QR https://tech.slashdot.org/story/18/09/12/1129224/european-parliament-votes-in-favor-of-controversial-copyright-laws...
  10. Grey Havoc

    ARPANET

    http://paleofuture.gizmodo.com/the-internets-save-the-date-a-tiny-item-in-a-ucla-stu-898064971 http://paleofuture.gizmodo.com/the-rise-and-fall-of-the-arpanet-1969-1989-in-one-gif-1258090851
  11. overscan (PaulMM)

    World map showing distribution of internet connected devices

    I like this. http://internetcensus2012.bitbucket.org/images.html
  12. overscan (PaulMM)

    Countries that access SecretProjects forum.....

    Just put in new stats software for the forum. For the first day of operation, we had visits from: United States France Slovak Republic Germany United Kingdom Russian Federation Finland Italy Brazil Australia Poland Turkey Portugal Belgium New Zealand Norway Netherlands Sweden Thailand Canada...
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