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And today in 1940

| 10. Februar 2012

This came in via one of my favourite Twitter channels: A man in Detmold, Germany, has been fined for insulting his wife, saying she “lies like Churchill”. “The court agreed this went too far.” — RealTimeWWII (@RealTimeWWII) I could not stop laughing for a minute or two. People who looked at this item also looked [...]

Atompunk Friday: ENIAC

| 10. Februar 2012

Today I feel like doing a bit of Atompunk, and since I am doing my blogging at a computer I guess it is time to remember the distant ancestor of all computers, the ENIAC. ENIAC is the acronym for Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer. There are several rather good articles on the web: English Wikipedia [...]