Happy Holidays everyone! It’s Christmas time now and we’ll be taking a short break here on Pingdom’s blog. We’ll be back next Monday.
Until then, here are some of our best posts from 2009 that you may have missed.
Computer tech geekery
- Retro delight: Gallery of early computers (1940s – 1960s)
- A look at the fastest supercomputer in the world
- Ten of the coolest and most powerful supercomputers of all time
- A look inside the fastest supercomputer in Europe
- Before Google became Google: The original setup at Stanford University
Social media geekery
- Study: Males vs. females in social networks
- In-depth study of Twitter: How much we tweet, and when
- A year-by-year tour of how Twitter has been taking over the world
- Why Facebook doesn’t have to worry about Twitter quite yet
- Dawn of the Twitter Effect
Open source geekery
Web and Internet geekery
- The sad truth about today’s Internet population
- Perl far from dead, more popular than you think
- The launch years of today’s most popular websites
- The early buzz about some of today’s most popular websites
- Why CDNs are great for the Internet, and it’s not for the reason you think
- The origin of 9 popular Web buzzwords
- A crisis in the making: Only 4% of the Internet supports IPv6
- Web growth peaked in 2007 but might be back with a vengeance in 2009
- The blog platforms of choice among the top 100 blogs
Uptime and performance geekery
- Sweden’s Internet broken by DNS mistake
- URL shortener speed and reliability shootout
- Why 100% uptime often ISN’T 100% uptime
- Online launch troubles and how to avoid them
- Social network downtime in 2008
- 6 gotchas about web hosting quality and reliability
- 40% still use old Google Analytics script
Misc tech geekery
- The holy tech flame wars
- Computer messaging before the Web – A visual timeline (1960-1990)
- Computer messaging history, part 2 – A visual timeline (1990-2009)
- Leaked emails with both embarrassing and painful consequences
- 10 historical software bugs with extreme consequences
- Wacky copy protection methods from the good old days
- Tech heroes of the past: Where are they now?
- The inner threat, 6 real-world cases of sysadmins gone wild
- Close-ups that reveal the beauty of silicon chips and circuits
- A gallery of electrical cabling gone wild
- 7 tech comics that will put a big smile on your face
- 12 unexpected parallels between Apple and Nintendo
- Version 1.0 of today’s most popular applications, a visual tour
Pure geekery
These were just some of our posts from 2009. As of this writing, there are more than 650 articles in our archives since we started this blog, so there’s plenty more where that came from. 🙂
Once again, we hope you’ll have a great holiday these coming days (if you have that in your part of the world), and we’ll see you back next Monday. Thanks for reading!
