This is probably a question you never asked yourself or maybe even wanted to ask, yet here we are. You have probably tried Microsoft Excel or Google Sheets at one time or another in your life, make to make sense of a bunch of information or maybe even to make a simple graph. A database is for all intents and… Read more →
There are a great many ways to build apps and programs, but the first step is finding something you want to make. For most people this is usually something like a hello world introduction, that shows you how to build a specific app or program. You might however already have an idea of what you want tough and that is… Read more →
Microcontrollers aka MCU’s are tiny little computers that can fit in the palm of your hand, in fact a lot of these herald from the era of the first computers, some not having changed much at all except for size in the past 40 years. There are thousands of theses little gadgets to choose from and they are gadgets, no… Read more →
Retro computing is a hobby that has been around since the 80’s, when the first mass market computers created, began to become obsolete. As these computers began to fall from grace, we as humans of course kicked up our collector gene and started hoarding the machines as they were phased out. This hobby has seen continued growth over the past… Read more →
The question of how long computers live is a hard one to answer, both because it is an ever evolving field, but also because the lifespan of a computer changes depending on your needs. This can be summed up into two categories, how long a computer can physically survive and how long the computer is actually useful for. At the… Read more →
You have most likely heard of the internet, you may even in a brief moment have wondered what it actually is, but you most likely don’t really know what it actually is or how it works. The internet is a great many things, a lot more things than you may even be able to imagine, it is also very few… Read more →
You have probably heard a bunch of stuff about how computers work and how they are put together, a lot of which probably sounds like nonsense, because it often uses tech lingo that is hard to understand without direct knowledge of it. This is why I will try and explain things in a bit more easy to read fashion. Most… Read more →
The single most important security feature on any computer is you, the person behind the keyboard. As I said in the computer history article, there is a big focus on security with most reputable companies, so most computer systems are pretty well protected in the first place. This brings us to you and people in general, we are the biggest… Read more →
“Back in the day” computer illiteracy was a very different beast than it is today, most urban legends about people using CD-ROM trays as coffee cup holders is actually something I have seen in the real world. Today there is a 50/50 chance that you and many others don’t even know what a CD-ROM is, but if it was still… Read more →