Cybersecurity Starts in the Boardroom
A “click bait” title for this week’s “Because It’s Friday” article. From the BBC archive comes an excellent Tomorrow’s World episode, hosted by James Burke, looking at the technology that kept people alive and working in Antartica in 1967. Every trick to either keep things warm or cold and plans …
Following on from the “Because It’s Friday” look at the Walkman – here is another even older tech film. Space age electronics. The Eagle has landed This is worth watching, Public Service Broadcasting’s exciting track about the Apollo 11 moon landing, complete with sampled commentary from mission control as the …
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There is a very odd reference in this 1989 article from the BBC Archive comparing using a Walkman to mental illness! But I am sure that is what happens when you turn something so basic into high-brow! It is interesting how the American advert manages to put a hyphen between …
This video starts off a bit odd – “…by the time I actually met Michael, …I didn’t care what he looked like”. “It [email] could rival the use of the telephone [in corporate business] by 1995.” This is where it all started and not one mention of spam or malicious …
Two bits of retro tech this week with thirty years between them – both of which we take for granted today – just look at the dash of the modern VW above. First navigation. Second photography. Have a good weekend – wherever you are going or whatever you are photographing. …
