I was entering the miseries of seventh grade in the fall of 1980 when a friend dragged me into a dimly lit second-floor room. The school had recently installed a newfangled Commodore PET computer, a ...

The date 15 July 1928 was an important one in the history of encryption and technology—it marked the first time the Enigma, possibly the most famous cipher machine in history, encoded a message. The ...

In earlier posts, we brought you creative photographs from an art fair, music festival, telecom expo, mobile showcase, social hackathon, bookstore, math museum, co-working space and art museum. In ...

A few months after releasing the Altair BASIC source code, Microsoft has shared another cornerstone of its early software success. The company announced that 6502 BASIC ...