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Lego to Release Atari 2600 Kit to Celebrate Consoles 50th Birthday
Although not quite achieving the huge popularity (and success) in Europe that the system saw in North America, it’s hard to deny that the Atari 2600 represents one of the most iconic gaming consoles ever created. – The fact that it was released in the late 70s and was still…
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Phasmophobia Celebrates its 1st Birthday With Surprise Update!
Phasmophobia was undoubtedly one of my personal gaming hits of 2020. With it now being a year since it came out, it has certainly come on a long way from its fairly crude beginnings though. Most notably so with a lot more ‘gloss’ being applied to the overall aesthetics and…
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Facebook Celebrates Their 15th Birthday
Facebook Turns 15-Years-Old There are very few out there that would’ve imagined back in 2004 that an online company would come along and within 5 years be one of the worlds leading corporate giants. That is, however, exactly what Facebook has done and today the company celebrates their 15th anniversary…
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Google Celebrates 20 Years By Looking To The Future
Google Celebrates 20 Years By Looking To The Future If you ever needed another reminder at exactly how old you are, then hearing that Google has just turned 20-years old might help! Yes, it all started from humble beginnings when an upstart search engine wanted to oust the near-total dominance…
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The First Public Website Celebrates 25th Birthday
Yesterday, we reached a big landmark in the history of the world wide web, the 25th birthday of the first public website to appear online. The site first came online on the 6th of August 1991, and unlike many websites which have come and gone, this one can still be…
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The World’s Most Popular Media Player Turns 15
VLC, the world’s most popular (and lauded) media player, is now fifteen years old, its creator VideoLAN has announced. While the genesis of VLC predates its Birthday of 1st February, 2001 – the software began life as Network 2000 five years previously – the date marks the point at which…
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KDE Turns 19 Today!
Today marks the 19th birthday of the Kool Desktop Enviroment (KDE) which added a more stylish visual interface to various Linux distributions. Back in 1996, the creator, Matthias Ettrich said: “Unix popularity grows thanks to the free variants, mostly Linux. But still a consistent, nice looking free desktop-environment is missing.…
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Linux is 24-Years-Old Today!
Today marks the 24th birthday of the Linux operating system, pioneered by Linus Torvalds and provided an open-source, community-based alternative to Microsoft Windows. Linux is Unix-powered and features customizable source code under the GNU General Public License. This means you can modify the source code for commercial or non-commercial purposes.…
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Windows 95 Celebrates 20th Birthday Today!
Windows 95 has reached the ripe old age of 20 today, and remembered quite fondly by critics and consumers who witnessed the iconic operating system’s initial launch. Way back in 1995, Microsoft set the technological world alight with a remarkably intuitive user-interface and support for plug-and-play devices. The foundations of…
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Internet Explorer Celebrates Its 20th Birthday
The Internet Explorer isn’t the youngest application anymore, in fact, it could celebrate its 20th birthday yesterday. That’s quite a milestone and while it has been discontinued and replaced by the new Edge browser (formerly known as Spartan), it will undoubtedly be around for many more years on systems that…
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Guy Ruins His Brother’s Birthday by Hiring Counter Strike Pro to Beat Him
Counter Strike: Global Offensive player Kyente was to celebrate his Birthday with a special stream of his favourite game with his brother Trel. Trel, however, had other ideas, hiring Counter Strike pro Mitch “DUM0RE” Green to secretly play as him. During team play, DUM0RE dumbed-down his game, deliberately losing to…
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Google Maps is 10 Years Old
Google Maps has just become 10 years old. It’s hard to believe that it’s as old as that, but it’s also hard to imagine a world without it 10 years ago.The quintessential mapping web app was initially developed by a team of 50 people, but it took many years and many…
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