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Lunduke and Friends - May 16, 2020 - Part 2

Nerdy, Linux-y, quarantined fun. Modems! Open source! Paranoia! Huzzah!

View on LBRY & YouTube. Listen on the podcast. All right here: lunduke.com/posts/2020-05-20/

Lunduke and Friends - May 16, 2020 - Part 1

With: Gardiner Bryant, Chris Titus, Matt Hartley, and Lunduke.

YouTube, LBRY, and Podcast:
lunduke.com/posts/2020-05-18/

You may have heard reports that Linux marketshare doubled last month.

That's likely not true.

Not only that... Linux marketshare is down significantly over the last few years.

Full report:
lunduke.com/posts/2020-05-08-b

Today in Computer History - May 6, 1949:

The EDSAC ran its first program.

Cool things about the EDSAC:
- 1st computer to have sub-routines.
- 1st computer (possibly) with a video game.
- Ran at 650 instructions per second.

lunduke.com/posts/2020-05-06/

This Day in Computer History - May 4, 2000:

ILOVEYOU worm infects 10+ Million PCs.

Fun Fact: The ILOVEYOU worm did Billions of dollars in damages... and was written because a college student in the Philippines didn't want to pay for Dial-up Internet.

lunduke.com/posts/2020-05-04/

Happy 42nd birthday to... Spam!

On this day, in 1978, the very first spam e-mail was sent.

- The email was all in caps (seriously).

- It was sent to all ARPANET users on the West Coast.

- It was promoting a computer.

You can read the full email here:

lunduke.com/posts/2020-05-03/

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