If I let them, my kids would live on the computer. I don’t think it’s a good place to live. Every computer must have a monitor — a really, really good one. Otherwise, the computer is useless. What ...

There was a time when computers were far too expensive to let mere students use them. In those days, we wrote fake programs for fictitious machines and checked them by hand. That wasn’t fun, but it ...

Ask any British coder of a certain age what it was that got them into the technology business in the first place, and the chances are high that they’ll say it was a childhood encounter with a Sinclair ...

Looking for a simple way for a young child to use your computer without messing everything up? Qimo is a lightweight, kid-focused Ubuntu distribution you can install or boot from a CD or thumb drive.

Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on Reddit Share on LinkedIn Share via Email In today’s quickly changing digital landscape, cybersecurity is more important than ever. Cybersecurity isn’t just ...

You’d think that toy computers would have reached their height in the last decade. This Playskool Play and Learn Computer is from 1972 and is a spectacular reminder that a) everything is toyable and b ...

When the PC was first introduced in 1981, it cost $1,561, which, according to Wikipedia, is equivalent to over $4,000 in today’s money. The original IBM PC had just 16kB of memory and could be ...

A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about the absurd notion (forwarded by Codecademy.com and New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg) that anyone could become a serious, worthwhile programmer, and get a decent ...