"The Cuckoo's Egg" by Cliff Stoll. A true tale of tracking hackers in 1986. No fancy tech. Just one man's stubborn hunt.
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The first integrated circuit was built in 1958. While his colleagues were away on summer break, Texas Instruments engineer Jack Kilby wired up the first working microchip from a single sliver of germanium. Months later Robert Noyce added the silicon planar process - and every microcontroller, sensor, and IoT device since descends from that prototype. Kilby won the 2000 Nobel Prize for it. fluidwire.com

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¿Un error de 75 centavos delató a un espía de la KGB? En 1986, Clifford Stoll investigó un microfallo contable en el sistema de Berkeley y descubrió a un hacker alemán robando secretos militares para la Unión Soviética. Para atraparlo, Stoll inventó el primer "honeypot" (trampa digital) de la historia, logrando que el FBI y la CIA lo rastrearan. ¡La ciberseguridad nació gracias a 75 centavos! 🕵️‍♂️💻

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¿Sabías que el primer servidor de The Pirate Bay estuvo en México?

En los 2000, uno de sus fundadores, Gottfrid Svartholm, trabajaba para una empresa mexicana y usó su infraestructura para arrancar el sitio, antes de mudarlo a Suecia en una vieja laptop Pentium III. Aunque muchos creen que nació en Europa, el polémico rey de los torrents tiene raíces aztecas. 🇲🇽🏴‍☠️

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Linux y BSD comparten comandos porque ambos son "hijos" conceptuales de Unix. Mientras BSD nació del código original de AT&T en Berkeley, Linux fue creado desde cero por Linus Torvalds para imitar cómo funcionaba Unix. Al adoptar los mismos estándares de diseño (POSIX) y usar las herramientas abiertas de GNU, ambos sistemas terminaron compartiendo la misma estructura, filosofía y comandos. 🐧😈

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Cuando Steve Jobs fue despedido de Apple, fundó NeXT y creó un sistema operativo basado en BSD. Al regresar en 1997, Apple compró NeXT y usó esa potente base Unix para salvar a la compañía y dar vida a Mac OS X (hoy macOS). Así es como el software libre y académico de Berkeley se convirtió en el motor ultraestable de todas las Mac y iPhones actuales. 🍏💻

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🚀 "8086 Segmented Memory Was a Good Idea" 😂 - said no one ever, except for Bill P. Godfrey basking in his software 'wizardry'. 🤦‍♂️ Yes, let's defend the architectural horror that left programmers with PTSD from segmentation chapters in every assembly book. 📚💥
https://owl.billpg.com/8086-segmented-memory-was-a-good-idea-almost/ #8086architecture #softwareengineering #programminghumor #techhistory #HackerNews #ngated
8086 Segmented Memory Was a Good Idea. (Almost.) – billpg industries™

158 years ago today, on June 23, 1868, Christopher Latham Sholes filed a patent. ⌨️ His invention: the first typewriter with a QWERTY keyboard. A lot has changed since then. What hasn’t changed: You want to type – and that’s it! No more fiddling around, fixing things, or even having to call in an ops team... that’s why we built Deploio. You bring the code, we’ll take care of the rest. 👉 https://nine.ch/en/products/deploio/ #typewriterday #qwerty #deploio #paas #techhistory #appengine #nine
The first SMS text message ever sent simply read 'Merry Christmas.' On 3 December 1992, engineer Neil Papworth typed it on a computer and sent it to a Vodafone phone -- handsets couldn't even reply yet. That two-word message grew into a backbone of cellular IoT, still used by sensors and trackers today. We build connected devices from silicon to cloud: fluidwire.com #IoT #Electronics #TechHistory #Engineering

Why does email use the @ symbol? In 1971, Ray Tomlinson sent the first email between two computers on ARPANET and needed to separate the user from the host machine. He chose @ because it was the one symbol that would never appear in someone's name. That afternoon decision still routes billions of messages a day. More IoT & tech history at fluidwire.com

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