Technorama Ep 381: Netscape Navigator in G Minor

Posted on August 20, 2013 by Kreg Steppe

Coming up in this episode…

  • Setting up your Dial Up internet preferences
  • The importance of clearing your cache
  • How to hide your browsing history

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Introducing the team…

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  • 22 – Kyle Slingo
  • 22 – AlchemyDragon
  • 25 – David “Grizzly” Smith from Grizzly’s Growls podcasts
  • 27 – Chuck’s forgotten iPod
  • 27 – Mike Noble
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On This Day In History for August 21, 2013

This is August 21, 2013 is the 233rd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 132 days remaining in 2013.

  • It was on this date in 1888 that the first successful adding machine in the United States is patented by William Seward Burroughs.
  • That same date in 1897 – Oldsmobile, a brand of American automobiles was founded.
  • Physicist Harry K. Daghlian, Jr. is fatally irradiated in a criticality accident during an experiment with the Demon core at Los Alamos National Laboratory on this date in 1945.
  • The Soviet Union successfully conducts a long-range test flight of the R-7 Semyorka, the first intercontinental ballistic missile on August 21, 1957.
  • and exactly 20 years ago today NASA loses contact with the Mars Observer spacecraft.

Happy birthday goes out on this date to

  • French scientist and engineer, Hubert Gautier, born on this date in 1660
  • also born on this date in 1665, French-Italian astronomer Giacomo F. Miraldi
  • August 21, 1789 is the birthday of French mathematician Augustin-Louis Cauchy
  • another mathematician, this time Hungarian, Endre Szemerédi turns 73 today
  • Chilean mathematician and computer scientist Eric Goles turns 62
  • and finally Google cofounder Sergey Brin turns 40

And that’s the way it was, on this day in history for August 21, 2013

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Hacks & Strange Stories

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What the Kreg

  • I got a plugin into the WordPress plugins DB!

Truly Julie

  • Julie bought an Atari 2600!

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