Boing Boing shares a Funny or Die video spoof/parody showing "The iPad

Boing Boing shares a funny Slate article titled "The iState of the Union"

Neatorama shares The Oatmeal's information/info graphic titled "Why I Believe Printers Were Sent From Hell To Make Us Miserable".

/. shares a musical (musical instrument digital interface (MIDI)) nine minute and 52 seconds YouTube video on "the history of Ken Silverman's build engine"

Rantingkitten's /. comment shares his rant titled "The Old Man and the PC" -- "Kids today. With their fast computers and broadband. Their Farkmemes and Slashfilters and Diggwoots and Facespaces. Where any doofus can smear up some graphics with a few clicks, drop the result into an HTML editor that practically runs itself, and call themselves web designers. Where installing hardware is a matter of plugging it in and turning it on. There are scores of you young whippersnappers talking about how 'back in the day' of 1999 you got your first computer with, sighing as you reminisce on how you had to learn the hard way how to use Blogger and now everyone has a blog. Well, boo hoo! Punk kids. No idea what it's like.

This two pages TechRadar article tells about a history of modems -- "Their arrival heralded a new age of communications and they played a major role in the explosion of the internet. We're talking, of course, about modems. Here we look back on the development of this remarkable device..." Other modem types weren't mentioned, so this is just a brief history.

Blue's News shares a Flash tower defense game titled "Motherboard Mayhem" that takes place on an ASUS motherboard/mobo. -- "Place your turrets on the motherboard to defend against infections and attackers to your central processing unit (CPU)."

This four pages Technologizer article takes six classic personal computers (PCs) from yesteryear–some cheap, some expensive–and compare one could buy today for the same price

Boing Boing shares a funny photocopy image

Tempnexus' Broadband/DSL Reports forum post tells a funny and dirty computer story

Digg shares The Oatmeal's comic strip on "The Three (3) Phases of Owning a Computer"

This three pages TechRadar article explains "why computers suck at maths and how simple calculations can be a matter of life and death. Computers might struggle to exhibit intelligent behaviour, but blindly performing arithmetic calculations is surely their forte. Or is it? ..."

Neatorama shares a Russian forum thread showing a few photographs/photos.

Digg shares a two pages PC World article (one print page; Computerworld and its one print page) showing 40 big losers that are obsolete technology -- "Old technology/tech. friends we used for years are now deceased or on life support..."

Nacturation's /. comment/reply mentioned a Pagetable blog about the first Terminator movie's T-800's computer screen perspectives/views.

VideoSift shares a funny one minute and 39 seconds CollegeHumor video showing the "L33t/leet/elites" disapprove of their daughter's less-than-technologically-savy boyfriend.

Linux Today shares a seventeen (17) pages PC World slideshow that looks back at the biggest technology breakthroughs in the evolution of laptop/notebook computers

Digg shares a Wired article on old/outdated/nostalgia stuff -- "There are some things in this world that will never be forgotten, this week's 40th anniversary of the moon landing for one. But Moore's Law and our ever-increasing quest for simpler, smaller, faster and better widgets and thingamabobs will always ensure that some of the technology we grew up with will not be passed down the line to the next generation of geeks.

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