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Submission + - IEEE i50 - A Virtual Celebration of 50 Years of the Internet (i50ieee.com)

Submitted by repett0 on Tuesday May 21, 2024 @01:42PM

repett0 writes: Through the collaboration of many professional computing societies and industry; including the IEEE, People-Centered Internet, Google, Internet Society, IEEE Computer Society, GIANT Protocol, IEEE Foundation, along with volunteers from the SF Bay Area ACM and Internet Society; the IEEE i50 event celebrated many key technologies and innovators from the past 50 years and considerations of what is to come in the next 50 years. Video streams are available and more are coming online (including interviews with key innovators, society leadership, and more). If you could not make this event event, follow on activities continue, including the Peoples-Centered Internet Imagine Workshop where a mix of society is working together to consider how to improve humanities intersection with ever expanding abilities thanks to technology.

Off the record — I was a volunteer, onsite and it was incredible to meet and greet such a wonderful mix of people making technology happen. Thank you to the People-Centered Internet for the opportunity to participate.

Comment Apple ][ (Score 1) 1613

by rapett0 on Thursday October 06, 2011 @01:30PM (#37628434) Attached to: Steve Jobs Dead At 56

My first real computer experience was on an Apple ][ at my elementary school. Granted it took many other factors over a lifetime to lead me where I am today, but I have to give props to Steve Jobs (and the Woz) for help getting it (being career, educational choices, etc.) started.

Comment Almost 30 years ago... (Score 1) 718

by rapett0 on Tuesday January 15, 2008 @01:52PM (#22052856) Attached to: What Was Your First Gaming Experience?

Looking back, its hard to remember in my new found "old" age. While maybe not exactly right, I do remember a game called Crossbows and Catapults. I doubt that game would have been sold in 20 years due to our new nanny state were everything that can put out an eye is banned.

As for video games, I would think Atarti 2600 probably. I remember switching the RF switch box and firing it up while listening to whatever tapes I recorded off the radio! [I am sure someone will tell me thats nothing, they stuck transitors in potatos while walking uphill both ways to get music.] Oddly enough, I got my Atari 400 and 800 many years after my first systems (2600, 7800, Odyssey, NES, etc).

Computers, um...I know I died many times on the Oregon Trail. However, what covered wagon was I in? Tandy something or other, or Commodore 64? Apple 2 maybe at my elementary school's library perhaps.

Why the RIAA Doesn't Want Defendants Exonerated 199

Posted by Zonk on Thursday March 29, 2007 @06:12PM from the so-many-reasons-just-pick-one dept.

RageAgainsttheBears writes "The RIAA is beginning to find itself in an awkward position. A few of its many, many lawsuits don't manage to end in success for the organization. Typically, when they decide a case isn't worth pursuing (due to targeting the wrong person or not having sufficient evidence), they simply move to drop the case. Counterclaims are usually dropped in turn, and everyone goes separate ways. But recently, judges have been deciding to allow the RIAA to drop the case, but still allowing the defendant's counterclaim through. According to the Ars Technica article: 'If Judge Miles-LaGrange issues a ruling exonerating Tallie Stubbs of infringement, it would be a worrisome trend for the RIAA. The music industry has become accustomed to having its way with those it accuses of file-sharing, quietly dropping cases it believes it can't win. It looks as though the courts may be ready to stop the record labels from just walking away from litigation when it doesn't like the direction it is taking and give defendants justice by fully exonerating them of any wrongdoing.'"

Groovy in Action 154

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday February 28, 2007 @04:21PM from the look-at-all-the-colors dept.

Simon P. Chappell writes "I missed the partying in the 70's and so was not exposed to the full groovy experience that was available. You could say that I was a late developer (pun intended). Thankfully, I am now able to make up for lost time by learning the Groovy scripting language. For those of you not familiar with Groovy, it is a dynamic language designed to run on a Java Virtual Machine and be easy for Java programmers to work with; it looks very similar to Java and will freely inter-operate with Java objects and libraries. I've been tinkering with Groovy on and off for about two years now; learning Groovy in the old days, prior to this year, was a challenge with all of the design changes that were taking place. Groovy in Action (GinA) is the book that I'd wished was available back then. Dierk König, a committer for the Groovy project, has written this definitive guide to Groovy and after what has seemed an eternity to those of us on the Groovy mailing list, it is finally available." Read below for the rest of Simon's review.

Journal Journal: Only constant is change

Journal by rapett0 on Monday February 28, 2005 @05:19PM

I finally updated my website from sac.uky.edu/~rapett0 to sqozon. Sad to see an old friend go.

Journal Journal: First Entry

Journal by rapett0 on Friday July 16, 2004 @02:37PM

Just trying this out, no real reason to use it yet.

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