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. One of the first Internet memes was The Hamster Dance, which was just a website with a bunch of animated pictures of hamsters and a clip of sped up music. It was one of the first websites whose popularity spread by word of mouth, and had no real value other than being silly (and having an annoyingly catchy tune!). [Read more…] about Digging in the Cache – Hamster Dance

Digging in the Cache is a series where we go back in time to look at fun tidbits of Internet and computer history. Will It Blend? is up this week. If you’ve ever doubted that word of mouth marketing (viral marketing) could work for boring products like a blender, then Will It Blend? is proof that clever marketing can work for just about any product.  Will It Blend? is a series of videos demonstrating a Blendtec blender attempting to blend various unusual items (iphones, glow sticks, golf balls, marbles, etc.) in order to show off the power of the blender. While the videos are fun and campy, they ultimately prove  the strength of the blender (which is more expensive than many blenders you’d find at retail stores). [Read more…] about Digging in the Cache – Will It Blend?

Digging in the Cache is a series where we go back in time to look at fun tidbits of Internet and computer history. This week I want to introduce you to one of my favorite computer icons (pun intended) — Clarus the Dogcow, who is a bitmapped image created by Susan Kare for Apple back in 1983 as part of the Cairo font (originally as a dog). Fonts are created on a very small scale, so when the image was increased in size for use in a page setup window to show orientation, it became less clear if it was a dog or a cow. [Read more…] about Digging in the Cache – Clarus the Dogcow (says Moof!)