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Steve Jobs dies at 56
LOS ANGELES (MarketWatch) -- Apple Inc. said late Wednesday that the company's founder and former chief executive Steve Jobs has died. Jobs was 56. "We are deeply saddened to announce that Steve Jobs passed away today. Steve's brilliance...
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‘LO’ Message Sent 40 Years Ago Today
Internet messages started with a crash 40 years ago today , and life hasn't been the same since. “We transmitted the ‘L’ … and the ‘O’ — and then the other computer crashed,” says UCLA's Leonard Kleinrock, who helped send that first message on...
Happy SysAdmin’s Day!
Since Ted Kekatos, a SysAdmin in the Chicago area suggested the day, to the first celebration on July 28, 2000. System Administrator Appreciation Day has become the one day a year set aside to show your appreciation for those people who keep all your...
Happy Birthday RFCs – The RFC Celebrates 40th Anniversary
On this day in 1969, 20 years before the birth of the World Wide Web, the first Request for Comments (RFC) document was published in the series that has documented Internet standards, practices, and technical history for the past four decades. Writing...