Flux
H`erkow Warrior Script
Scion of the Light: 2nd Sighting
Fact of the day...RollerCoaster Tycoon (1999) was almost entirely coded by one person, Chris Sawyer, and about 99% of it was written in hand-crafted x86 assembly language
Fact of the day...Dell quietly pioneered lithium-ion laptop batteries in 1994. Before that, most portables used heavier, less efficient nickel-cadmium or nickel-metal hydride packs that suffered from "memory effect" and shorter life.
Fact of the day...The first trackball was invented in 1946 for secret British Navy radar to track aircraft, 20+ years before computer mice existed.
Fact of the day....The first spam email (1978) was sent by Gary Thuerk to about 400 ARPANET users advertising DEC computers. It outraged people so much that it basically invented the concept of "netiquette" complaints overnight.
Fact of the day... In 1938, Samsung was founded as a small grocery trading store in South Korea. Their primary business was exporting local produce, dried Korean fish, and their own brand of noodles. They didn't even enter the electronics industry until the late 1960s
