Category Archives: history

Jun 2009: google wav and Microsoft Bing

Some new stuff for this month http://wave.google.com (email/IM) and http://www.bing.com (MS Search)

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Open Library

Open Library (n.d.) . Retrieved April 7, 2009 from http://openlibrary.org/ Apr 7, 2009: featuring 22,845,290 books (including 1,064,822 with full-text)

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Information revolution

Worth a look how old information management compares with current Wesch, M. (2007) Information Revolution, YouTube. Retrieved February 12, 2009 from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4CV05HyAbM

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Running History of IT stuff

Always regretted not recording IT changes as they happened. Eg. When I started computing (around 1980) I sold the original IBM PC (twin Floppy at $8,000, with a 10MB HDD around $16,000) So have started a history page in my … Continue reading

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