Posts by Steve Youngblood

Introducing Mimms Museum of Technology and Art

A Bold New Chapter: Welcome to Mimms Museum of Technology and Art Our museum has grown in scope and vision over the years. While innovation remains our foundation, our mission…

Happy Birthday Internet

If you are reading this, it’s because you’re on the internet.  55 years ago on this day, the first permanent link on the ARPANet is established between UCLA and the…

Basic Turns 60

It’s official. The BASIC programming language is now a senior citizen. On May 1st of 1964, Dartmouth mathematicians John Kemeny and Thomas Kurtz ran the first program written in their…

Here it comes. The Eclipse on April 8, 2024

CMoA volunteer Steve Youngblood preparing for the August 21, 2017 solar eclipse On April 8, 2024, Atlanta, GA, will experience a partial solar eclipse. The extent of the eclipse will…

This Month in Computer History

In March of 1976, 48 years ago, the first Cray-1 supercomputer was installed at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico. This was serial number “1”.  This first Cray,…