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MS-DOS Turns 30, You are Older Than You Thought

by Eric Limer | 3:10 pm, July 27th

MS-DOS, the good ol’ grey and black, turns 30-years-old today. Way back on July 27th, 1981, Microsoft purchased the rights to QDOS (Quick and Dirty Operating System) from Seattle Computer Company and Microsoft Dirty Operating System was born. How much did it cost back then? Well, the rights were $25,ooo or, considering the prices of the day, the cost of about 31 mb. From these beginnings, MS-DOS went on to be Big Man on the Microsoft campus until Windows 3.0 came around and changed the computing world. MS-DOS has continued to hang around, however, but development stopped in 2000. In celebration of its birthday, I’m going to download some abandon-ware, boot up DOSBox and regress to childhood. C:\>_ forever.

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Modern-Day Prometheus

BitTorrent Turns 10 Today!

by Max Eddy | 12:00 pm, July 2nd

In 2002, Bram Cohen posted the first functional version of BitTorrent to a message board, laying the ground work for the workhorse of file transfers that we know and love today. According to an interview with TorrentFreak, that post received one response. Hardly an auspicious start. But the world quickly recognized the potential of a system that could easily move large files over the Internet and take advantage of users’ mostly unused up-stream traffic.

Cast your mind back, if you will, to a time before BitTorrent. A time when it actually made sense to burn large files to CD and mail them across the country. A time where high-quality audio or video files were simply not practical since no one could download them in a reasonable amount of time.  Those were dark days.

So today, raise a glass to BitTorrent! The system that let you download a movie before it was in theaters, brought you the entire discography of an artist, let you update WoW with breathtaking speed, and helped you build a collection of lossless recordings of Phish concerts. Happy Birthday!

(Torrent Freak via Hacker News, image via Phaedra)

Geekosystem Turns One Year Old

by Robert Quigley | 11:19 am, January 25th

A year ago today, we launched Geekosystem with the goal of “unit[ing] all of the tribes of geekdom under one common banner.” And I think we’ve been pretty successful to that end. Despite cold-launching with zero marketing budget and an editorial staff of exactly two people, myself and Susana Polo, we’ve built a great community of readers, and the site reaches an audience of comfortably more than one million people each month. So we’d like to thank you, Geekosystem reader, for your excellent and discerning taste in websites, and for helping make the site what it is today.

OK: We’ll take a little credit too.

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Happy Birthday, Giorgio Moroder!

by Frances Martel | 6:04 pm, April 26th

Happy birthday, Giorgio Moroder! The father of modern dance music and both three-time Grammy and Oscar winner turns 70 today. Yes, the man who wrote the soundtrack to Scarface and thought Donna Summer’s vocal “exercises” in “Love to Love You, Baby” were a good idea at a time when people were still getting arrested for filming porn movies is now your grandfather’s age. Time flies!

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Happy Birthday, Chuck Norris

by Robert Quigley | 8:50 am, March 10th

Today is Chuck Norris‘ 70th birthday. Seventy years ago to this day — you may note that this was before America won World War II — Norris was born in Ryan, Oklahoma, three months premature. The rest is history.

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