The News Of Tomorrow, Today
The News Of Tomorrow, Today
Techversary
Mario Aguilar
Exactly 10 years ago today, the internet finally gave a name to one of its favourite phenomenons, the Streisand Effect — what happens when you try to censor something and the internet loses its collective shit, dumping even more attention on it. And what a glorious decade it’s been.
Exactly 80 years ago today, Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary officially opened its gates to some of America’s most violently incorrigible criminals — after all, it was the most escape-proof prison ever built. Escape-proof, that is, for everyone except three prisoners in 1962 and their trusty arsenal of brilliant, hacked-together gadgets.
You’ve almost certainly played a game on your phone today. Some beautiful, high-res game with a rainbow of colours and fluid animation. You’ve got a lot of power in your pocket these days, but portable gaming owes a lot to the chunky old Game Boy, which is 25 years old…
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