Because It’s Friday – Queen Elizabeth II and Technology

Because it does not always need to be serious cyber security articles. Get your coffee and doughnuts out.

Here are a couple of articles about Queen Elizabeth II and her relationship with technology.

How the Queen embraced technology during her reign | Queen Elizabeth II | The Guardian

Queen Elizabeth II led a low-tech life—but knighted plenty of sci-tech figures | Ars Technica

We illustrated the huge change during the Queen’s reign, with a series of posts over the Platinum Jubilee Weekend looking at some of today’s common place technology that got its start in 1952:

Encryption and how we got to an internet where you can securely buy things online. A Platinum Jubilee Fact.

Noughts and Crosses. A Platinum Jubilee Fact.

IBM 726 dual tape drive. A Platinum Jubilee Fact.

How many transistors are there in the processor in your computer? A Platinum Jubilee Fact.

Further Reading

I wanted to post this last weekend – but it only became available this morning! A Platinum Jubilee Fact. – Smart Thinking Solutions

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Because It’s Friday – The Queen