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October 2009

Internet Uttered First Words 40 Years Ago Today

Below is a record of the first message ever sent over the ARPANET. It took place at 22:30 hours on October 29, 1969. This record is an excerpt from the “IMP Log” that we kept at UCLA. I was supervising the student/programmer Charley Kline (CSK) and we set up a message transmission to go from the UCLA SDS Sigma 7 Host computer to the SRI SDS 940 Host computer. The transmission itself was simply to “login” to SRI from UCLA. We succeeded in transmitting the “l” and the “o” and then the system crashed! Hence, the first message on the Internet was “lo”! We were able to do the full login about an hour later.

via cs.ucla.edu

A good day to celebrate!

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Tribute to the fall of Geocites: xkcd- HOSTED BY GEOCITIES

via xkcd.com

Outstanding throwback. Under Construction gifs, Email Me, Marquee Text, Broken Image tags, the BLINK tag… The only feature missing are several animated gif torches.

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CryEngine 3: Beauty, Speed, And Interaction – Cryengine 3 – Kotaku

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Could somebody develop a fun game with it…? ;)

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SynergyKM – Share your input device with multiple computers

Of all the neat little applications there are out there to enhance your workflow – Synergy is absolutely on my top ten list. For folks out there that use more than one computer on a consistent basis – Synergy let's you control multiple machines with one keyboard and mouse. Control is passed in the same fashion that having multiple monitors connected to one machine: Simply by moving your mouse out of your current screen – and onto your other computer.

Bonus: If you are using a Mac – there is a handy GUI version of Synergy (the regular version of Synergy is a command line application) called SynergyKM. SynergyKM is great because it easily lets you position where your other computer is physically (e.g. to the right of the main machine) using a graphic interface.

Download SynergyKM here for free: http://sourceforge.net/projects/synergykm/ 

If you use more than one computer – this app is a must have. Feel free to leave a comment if you need a little help setting it up.

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Curious about CSS?

Mastering CSS Coding: Getting Started « Smashing Magazine
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Whether you are a total n00b, or teh 7337 h4XX0rz – this is a great intro article covering most of the basics of Cascading Style Sheets.

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jQuery Visual Cheat Sheet

Awesome JQuery resource. Hat-Tip to Dave Merwin for picking this up! (Also for tipping me off to Posterous)
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Making happy designers and developers…

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Sequel Pro — MySQL database management app for Mac OS X

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I have been working with this App for several weeks now and am very happy with it. It has a simple GUI interface for interacting with your MySQL databases. Worth giving a try!!

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Playlegions on Facebook

InstantAction
Visit: PlayLegions Facebook App
CSS/XHTML/Javascript/PHP, Front-End UI/UX Design.

Since InstantAction technology allows games to be played inside a web browser, why not integrate one of our popular games with Facebook’s extensive social network? Continue Reading »

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PlayLegions.com

Play Legions
Visit: PlayLegions.com
CSS/XHTML/Javascript/PHP, Front-End UI/UX Design.

PlayLegions is a single player version of the popular InstantAction game Fallen Empire: Legions. One of our key goals with PlayLegions was to streamline our design and help users get directly into a game without having to register. Continue Reading »

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InstantAction

InstantAction
Visit: InstantAction.com
CSS/XHTML/Javascript/PHP, Front-End UI/UX Design.

The first project I worked on for Garage Games was (and is) InstantAction. InstantAction is basically a game console, similar to Microsoft’s XBOX, or Nintendo’s Wii, that you can load up in your web browser. Launching in early spring of 2008, InstantAction now boasts more than 2 million registered users from all around the world. Continue Reading »

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