Radio Battalion is Born 1st Radio Battalion is Born January 3rd, 1962, 42 Marine cryptologists (1st Radio Company Fleet Marine Force, Sub-Unit 1) arrived in Pleiku, the Republic of Vietnam for four months. They were the first U.S. Marines to participate in the build-up, which became the Vietnam War. Their mission was to gather information about… Continue reading Radio Battalion is Born
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We Are All Sick and Twisted
We Are All Sick and Twisted I actually have a story that fits in perfectly with this post. It was 1993 and I was on travel to California (Point Mugu to be exact) and my Marine buddies and I were on the Venice Beach boardwalk. I haven’t been there since, but in the 90’s the… Continue reading We Are All Sick and Twisted
The First Ever Web Page and Domain Name
The First Ever Web Page and Domain Name So what was the first web page ever made? Now that can be debated, but the first publicly available web page was made by Tim Berners-Lee at the European Organization for Nuclear Research, CERN. If that name sounds familiar, that is because Tim is recorded as the… Continue reading The First Ever Web Page and Domain Name
The First Computer Virus
The First Computer Virus The first computer viruses were not what they are today, they were mostly made as practical jokes to play on co-workers or designed to find idle computer processes or to see how far someone could push their coding skills. The first real computer virus in the wild was called “Brain” and… Continue reading The First Computer Virus
First Commercial Website
First Commercial Website My first ever commercial website was for a local tile-laying company in the 90s. He was a computer repair client and a friend of my wife’s. He wanted a “cool” website. So I used one of his wall tiles as a background and carefully laid it out so it would correctly repeat… Continue reading First Commercial Website