Douglas Engelbart and the Mother of All Demos
In 1968, one man demonstrated a wooden mouse, video conferencing, and word processing — and stunned the entire tech world.
Internet guides, hardware reviews, latency optimization, and speedrun tips for the modern web.
In 1968, one man demonstrated a wooden mouse, video conferencing, and word processing — and stunned the entire tech world.
Learn how a Netscape programmer named Lou Montulli invented the HTTP cookie to give websites a memory so you don't have to log in on every page.
Take an nostalgic yet highly technical trip down memory lane to see how internet speeds evolved over 1,000,000x in just three decades.
Travel back to March 15, 1985, to explore the registration of Symbolics.com and compute custom domain ages in our interactive Whois calculator.
In the 1950s, programmers had to write code in painful binary. Discover how Grace Hopper invented the first compiler and found the very first computer 'bug'.
Explore the wild theoretical physics of faster-than-light tachyon particles and try our embedded interactive cosmic speed calculator.
Peek into the cutting-edge physics of quantum networks and space-based laser grids that will render standard ping lag completely obsolete.
In 1991, a Finnish student got tired of proprietary operating systems. Discover how Linus Torvalds created Linux and changed global software forever.
Discover the amazing science of Visible Light Communication (VLC) and simulate photodiode data capture in our interactive demo.