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  • Looking back from 2057
    See how the music industry shot its self in the foot, how the movie industry nearly did, Internet V3, Space Elevator, Moon bases, weather control and a bunch of other ideas. Will any of this happen ?
    Posted: 2006-03-31
    Category: Technology
  • Riding the second dot com wave
    It was in the early months of 2000 that it all seemed to end, The dot-com boom was over, billions of (insert favourite currency here) were lost.

    You might be tempted to think that the Internet was now a deserted wasteland and the human race had moved on to the next big thing. A quick look at Google's web site reveals that it currently indexes some 8 billion web pages ! That's quite a leap from the 4 billion pages it was indexing a couple of years ago.

    Posted: 2006-03-31
    Category: Internet Business
  • Who cares about computer viruses
    "Who cares !!" said my friend, "If it slows my PC down a bit, I can live with that. I'm NOT paying some PC nerd 50 / hour to remove these virus things every month !!", he continued.
    Posted: 2006-03-31
    Category: Computer
  • How to get less spam
    No one is quite sure when the first 'spam' message was sent, some think it was in 1994 when two lawyers hired a programmer to post an advert to every newsgroup on USENET. As the same message was repeated across many newsgroups it got labelled 'spam' after the Monty Python sketch where every meal served in a cafeteria has some degree of spam in it.
    Posted: 2006-03-31
    Category: Spam