Flashback Friday: The Year Everyone's Computer Caught a Virus From a Floppy Disk
Before email attachments and dodgy downloads, viruses spread the old-fashioned way: physically, on a floppy disk, passed hand to hand.
Before email attachments and dodgy downloads, viruses spread the old-fashioned way: physically, on a floppy disk, passed hand to hand.
Before social media, going viral meant a chain email promising bad luck if you did not forward it to ten friends. A tribute to the genuinely strange forwarded-email era.
My first ever PC build ended in actual smoke. Here is what a few hundred dollars of melted components taught a teenager about electronics.
That screech-and-hiss handshake sound. The ICQ "uh oh." Tying up the home phone line for hours. A tribute to the genuinely chaotic early internet.
Long before Your Local Tech Solutions, there was a cracked Nokia 3310, a butter knife, and a kitchen table. This is where it all started.