Month: March 2005
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Digital memories: cheap to take, cheaper to lose
The consequences of the dotcom bubble – being remembered this week five years on from the start of the crash – aren’t just financial. The largest loss of wealth in human history created a wasteland of dead pages and broken links. Now many of the same Dotcom People are back, persuading us to trust…
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MS-DOS paternity dispute goes to court
The parentage of the MS-DOS operating system is to be decided in court. Tim Paterson, who sold the Intel-compatible operating system 86-DOS (aka QDOS) to Microsoft in 1980 is suing author and former Times editor Harold Evans, and his publisher Time Warner, for defamation. Paterson’s work became Microsoft’s first operating system – it subsequently rebadged QDOS as…
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Space is the place, says Esther Dyson
Fly her to the moon. Please. In a remarkable case of life imitating satire, Esther Dyson has decided to host a space conference. No, we’re not making this up – and no, we can’t think of anyone more appropriate. “It’s not that there aren’t space conferences, but nothing as tacky and commercial as we want…