Tag: history

Kids react to Metallica

This video made me feel very, very old.  Ancient almost.  I grew up with Metallica and it is shocking to realize that kids these days don’t even know the band.  Apart from that, the reactions are funny.  New generation …

By the way, there are more videos in that YouTube channel (see the Windows 95 for example).   Radio Nostalgie … :)

The History of the URL

The History of the URL is a brilliant compilation of ideas and resources, explaining how we got to the URLs we use and love (or hate) today.  In fact, the article comes in two parts:

  1. Domain, protocol, and port
  2. Path, fragment, query, and auth

Read them in whatever order you prefer. But I guarantee that you’ll have a number of different responses through out, from “Wow! I never knew that” and “I would have never thought of that!” to “No way! I don’t believe it“.

And here is one of the bits that made me smile:

In 1996 Keith Shafer, and several others proposed a solution to the problem of broken URLs. The link to this solution is now broken. Roy Fielding posted an implementation suggestion in July of 1995. The link is now broken.

Rejected Princesses

Rejected Princesses is a series of illustrations of women whose stories wouldn’t make the cut for animated kids’ movies, illustrated in a contemporary animation style. Women too Awesome, Awful, or Offbeat for Kids’ Movies.

Lyudmila Pavlichenko

Love the website! All of it – the design, the content, the idea, the stories, the illustrations!  Found it by following the link to Lyudmila Pavlichenko story – the deadliest female sniper ever lived.

Latency numbers by year

Last year I came across a nice chart of latency numbers every programmer should know.  Today, I saw this page, which shows you the same latency numbers, but also provides a timeline from 1990 to 2020.

For some operations, latency is constant, because it’s based on things of nature – speed of light, distance between continents, etc.  For other operations, latency can be decreased through better technology and algorithms.

The timeline clearly shows the mind-blowing advance we’ve experienced in technology over the last three decades.