Digging in the Cache

Digging in the Cache is a series where we go back in time to look at fun tidbits of Internet and computer history. If you haven’t heard of Three Wolf Moon (affiliate link), you’re in for a treat! (It’s still pretty amusing even if you’ve heard of it before.) Three Wolf Moon is a tshirt (seen at left) produced by a company called The Mountain.  The shirt itself is clearly awesome (ahem), and it was posted on Amazon, a sarcastic review was left by Brian Govern, which inspired others to leave their own amusing reviews.  The shirt has since been featured in several video games and makes appearances at tech conferences as an item of ironic humor. [Read more…] about Digging in the Cache – Three Wolf Moon

Digging in the Cache is a series where we go back in time to look at fun tidbits of Internet and computer history. Way back when (ok, not really that long ago), computers and printers did not have graphics capabilities. If you wanted to make pictures, you were stuck with the 95 printable characters defined by the ASCII standard. Some of the oldest known examples were created around 1966 by Kenneth Knowlton, who was working at Bell Labs at the time. While computers (and phones and tablets, etc.) have graphical capabilities these days, ascii-style art is still used in text-based communications like email, text messages and Tweets. [Read more…] about Digging in the Cache – ASCII Art