New Laptop

Recently ordered a new Lenovo IdeaPad 3i laptop. Twice as much disk space as my old laptop. 50% more memory. 4 cm bigger screen. WiFi 6. Fuller keyboard. Paid extra for a backlit keyboard as I loved that in my old laptop. Uses the same charger as my old one, which I already had two … Continued

The Mother of All Demos

It was 40 years ago today that Douglas Engelbart gave a demonstration that introduced the public to an impressive list of technologies which would in the following years become established in the mainstream. On the 9th of December, 1968, he demonstrated: a mouse; hypertext (i.e. text with links that can be followed — a precursor … Continued