http://www.edn.com/electronics-blogs/benchtalk/4458549/Happy-150th-Canada–The-Technologies?utm_content=bufferf5ea8&utm_medium=social&utm_source=plus.google.com&utm_campaign=buffer Here’s a short list of technologies, not all electronic, that hail from the Great White North. Look also at some of Canada’s more famous engineers. →
https://www.wired.com/2017/05/gif-turns-30-ancient-format-changed-internet/?mbid=social_fb Wilhite finished the first version of the GIF specification on May, 1987. Compuserve began using the format the next month. This was two years before Sir Tim Berners-Lee announced his World Wide Web project and six years before the Mosiac browser made the web widely accessible. It was the web that made the GIF what it is →
http://www.edn.com/electronics-blogs/edn-moments/4373882/Star-Wars-is-released–May-25–1977?utm_content=buffer50353&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer Star Wars movie is now 40 years old. →
http://resources.infosecinstitute.com/seven-major-hacks-changed-view-cyber-security/ This is a good list of significant cyber security events. →
http://spectrum.ieee.org/telecom/wireless/stages-of-electronics This article takes a view of the steps how we got from idea of first radio to modern smart phones. →
EDN is US print magazine on Electronics applications, products, technology and design techniques. I have read that magazine quite a lot over many years and provided links to many of their articles in ePanorama.net. EDN: you’re old. This year some months ago this magazine turned 60 years old: May 8, 2016 marked the 60th anniversary of →
https://www.wired.com/2011/10/dennis-ritchie/?utm_content=buffer37303&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer →
http://www.edn.com/electronics-blogs/edn-moments/4420729/1st-actual-computer-bug-found–September-9–1947?_mc=sm_edn&hootPostID=6c193270949409bd818ce49df0797547 Article about first legendary computer bug. This was living hardware bug – nowadays bugs are mostly software. →
http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/a-hacker-from-south-africa-just-rescued-the-first-nasa-computer-in-space?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=atlas-page Interesting article and video on first computer in space. →
The history of Linux began in 1991 with the commencement of a personal project by Finnish student Linus Torvalds to create a new free operating system kernel. Happy Birthday! Linux turns 25 article tells that that Linus’ initially glot his project off the ground in April 1991 and announced in in 25 August 1991. Linus →