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Perl turned 28 today. Happy birthday!

Monkey Island I, one of the greatest computer games ever made, has (probably) turned 25, and Ron Gilbert (the game's main designer) has a fascinating write-up. For instance, the release process was certainly rather different back in the day:

[...] Lucasfilm’s process for finalizing and shipping a game consisted of madly testing for several ( Read more... )

My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic is four years old as of today: the first episode, Friendship is Magic, Part 1 originally aired on the 10th of October 2010.

Here's to many more years!

Happy DOOMsday - today's actually the 20th anniversary of the original game's release. Hard to believe it's been two decades, and even harder to believe it's still going strong.

But it is! So here's to the next twenty years of blasting demons, gibbing zombies and smashing pumpkins into small piles of putrid debris.

Also: Chocolate Doom released ( Read more... )

Happy 10th birthday, Icelandic Wikipedia!

Happy Lawnchair Larry Day, everyone! In fact, it's a special one, since this is actually the 30th anniversary of Lawnchair Larry's flight.

It was on July 2nd 1982 that Larry Walters, better known as Lawnchair Larry, tied fourty-five weather balloons to his lawnchair, strapped in and filled them with helium, and ended up climbing to 15000+ feet ( Read more... )

Happy Lawnchair Larry Day, everyone!

On July 2nd 1982, Larry Walters, better known as Lawnchair Larry, tied fourty-five weather balloons to his lawnchair, strapped in and filled them with helium, and ended up climbing to 15000+ feet and floating about for several hours before ultimately managing to make it safely to the ground again - but not ( Read more... )

Happy anniversary to Wikipedia - the project is ten years old as of today. Here's a wiki dedicated to this anniversary; there's lots of events all over the globe, just in case you're still looking for something to do today. *s*

For those curious, here's a (read-only) copy of Wikipedia from the 20th of December 2001, too. And (just because I like ( Read more... )

Today is the 17th anniversary of the death of Larry Walters, better known as Lawnchair Larry, the guy who tied fourty-five weather balloons to his lawnchair, strapped in and filled them with helium, and who ended up climbing to 15000+ feet and floating about for several hours before ultimately managing to make it safely to the ground again, but not ( Read more... )