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    Relic: NeXT Computer

    Steve Jobs was known as one of the most innovative technological minds in the history of personal computers. Having started Apple in 1976 with Steve Wozniak, he had become...

    Relic: The Morris Worm

    Cybersecurity is of utmost importance today. Simple things such as having a strong password can help protect against this, but people have used passwords such as birthdays, names of...

    Relic: Napster

    20 years ago, the process of sending files through the Internet was a slow and painstaking affair. Music files would take minutes (or even hours) to send. Today, we...

    Relic: Overhead Projector

    You’ve seen one in every classroom (especially if you are my age or older), and they’ve been used to highlight important things you learn in any sort of class,...

    Relic: Sega Channel

    Today, we now take online gaming for granted. We can play online on every console out today, and we obviously have PCs if we want those extra beefy graphics...

    Relic: Deep Blue

    German chess player Siegbert Tarrasch once said, “One doesn’t have to play well, it’s enough to play better than your opponent.” What do you do when your opponent is...

    Relic: Motorola dynaTAC

    Today, your smartphone is essentially a computer and a phone rolled into one, convenient little package. However, there was a time when a phone was still a phone and...

    Relic: Typewriter

    One of the major inventions in history was the printing press. It allowed publishers to roll out copies of books quickly at a far lower cost than writing each...

    Relic: von Neumann Architecture

    The basis of all of today’s computers, whether it’s a top-of-the-line gaming PC or an average smartphone, can be traced back to von Neumann architecture. The architecture is named...