Tag Archives: History

First Orbit: 50 Years On Apr 12, 2011

This week marks 50 years since Yuri Gagarin started man’s ventures into space. To mark the occasion documentary makes Christopher Riley teamed up with the European Space Agency and the crew of the International Space Station to recreate Gagarin’s first voyage. Read More…

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Newfangled modern computers. Jul 28, 2008

I was just going through my RSS feeds and spotted a post from Laughing Squid about a video IBM commissioned in 1968 as a glossary of computer terms. I was going to send it as a joke to a mate of mine who's doing something similar, but having watched it I was surprised that it's [...] Read More…

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