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Amiga. The computer of choice for the cool kids of the 80s. 🕹️#computers #retro #gaming #vintage #cool #1980s

Remember when everyone thought the cloud would *save* money over on-prem infrastructure and all the cranky, overpaid IT folks that come with it? 🙄#cloud #costs #management #itstrategy #bigtech #it

PSA for Windows 11 users: Having a Microsoft account tied to your Windows 11 installation gives you access to a ton of additional features, like Copilot and OneDrive. But, if you want to take a more private approach to how you use your PC, then disconnecting your account cuts off Microsoft's access to your data. It does mean you'll lose out on features like cloud storage, but on the other hand, you'll have more control over what data Microsoft is able to capture and share with advertisers.And given Microsoft's dismal cybersecurity track record as of late, it may make sense to avoid their cloud entirely if you have the option.#microsoft #windows #cloud #exit #privacy #security

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#onthisday in #history -- April 26, 1954 🗓️The Seven Samurai 👺Kurosawa Akira's Seven Samurai was released in Japan, and it is widely considered one of the greatest and most influential films ever made. ⛩️From britannica.com#films #movies #filmmaking #japan #1950s

#onthisday in #tech #history -- April 26, 1986 🗓️Chernobyl Nuclear Accident ☢️A devastating environmental catastrophe occurred early this morning in 1986 when an explosion and fire at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine released large amounts of radioactive material into the atmosphere.From britannica.com#russia #ukraine #chernobyl #nuclear #accident #1980s

#onthisday in #tech #history -- April 26, 1960 🗓️IBM Announces "STRETCH" Supercomputer Plans 👩💻IBM sends out an upbeat release on supercomputers and its own STRETCH (also known as the IBM 7030). "The $10-million-and-up class computers are the world's fastest and most powerful. They are similar to the STRETCH computer which IBM is now completing for the Atomic Energy Commission at Los Alamos, New Mexico. IBM will now contract with business firms and government agencies to build STRETCH type computers. They can complete 100 billion computations in a day. The new machines are seventy-five times faster than the large-scale IBM 704 computer" Serial Number 1 STRETCH is part of The Computer History Museum permanent collection.From computerhistory.org#ibm #computers #supercomputers #1960s

#onthisday in #tech #history -- April 26, 2014 🗓️Buried Atari E.T. Cartridges Discovered by Archeologists 🕹️As part of the filming of the documentary, Atari: Game Over, a team of archaeologists at a landfill in Alamogordo, New Mexico uncover the site of an estimated 700,000 Atari 2600 cartridges buried in 1983, including copies of E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, one of the most famous commercial failures in video game history. Since 1983 when it was first reported that Atari had dumped excess copies of unsold cartridges, the event had become a type of urban legend, with the details of the games, other equipment, and quantities dumped varying according to who was telling the story. It also became a symbolic event of the video game crash of 1983, where home video game revenues fell by nearly 97% over two years. It was commonly believed that millions of copies of E.T. were buried, although it was claimed by a former Atari official during the excavation that the number was only 728,000 cartridges of various games.It was reported that only about 1100 cartridges were uncovered as the majority were buried deeper than expected. Games found in the recovery included Yars’ Revenge, Star Raiders, Pac-Man, Space Invaders, Defender, Warlords, Centipede, and yes E.T.As an 8 or 9 year old kid, I actually really liked the E.T. game! I remember the agony of not being able to win and having E.T. die or be captured, and the thrill of completing the game and sending E.T. home. In fact, I still have my original cartridge as well as my original Atari 2600.From Marcel Brown thisdayintechhistory.com#atari #videogames #archeology #documentary #1980s

#onthisday in #tech #history -- April 26, 1999 🗓️Chernobyl Virus Melts Down PCs ☢️The first known virus to target the flash BIOS of a PC, the CIH/Chernobyl Virus triggers its payload on this day, erasing hard drives and disabling PCs primarily in Asia and Europe. One of the most destructive viruses in history, it is estimated that 60 billion PCs were infected worldwide causing $1 Billion in damages.The virus had been created exactly one year earlier on April 26, 1998 by Taiwanese student Chen Ing-hau and set to trigger its destructive payload exactly one year later. It began to spread in the wild and was first discovered in June of 1998, given the name CIH due to the author’s initials discovered in the virus code. From this time forward it was reported that a variety of companies accidentally distributed the virus through various downloads, updates, and CDs. When the virus triggered on this date it just happened to coincide with the date of the Chernobyl disaster in 1986 and therefore the press began to call it the Chernobyl virus, even though there has never been any evidence to show that this date was chosen intentionally for this reason.From Marcel Brown thisdayintechhistory.com#malware #viruses #computers #chernobyl #1990s

"I care about a lot of issues. I care about libraries, I care about healthcare, I care about homelessness and unemployment. I care about net neutrality and the steady erosion of our liberties both online and off. I care about the rich/poor divide and the rise of corporate power."-- Sara Sheridan (Writer & Activist)#internet #netneutrality #freespeech #fcc #usa #bigtech

“The stock market is a device to transfer money from the impatient to the patient.” 💰-- Warren Buffett#stocks #markets #meta #ibm #bigtech #losseshttps://lnkd.in/eBTTg8-V