Tag: birthday
Everyone's favourite geek plaything, Lego, celebrates 50th birthday today
It’s true, Google’s logo says so!
The date marks the day the Lego company filed the patent for the plastic brick, and since then they’ve produced…
Win a Brando USB decoration birthday kit with Tech Digest!
We’re nearing the end of our Brando competitions, with our second-last give-away being…the USB decoration birthday kit!
Containing a string of LED lights, birthday hat and mouse pad, it normally retails for $18 from Brando, but we have one available for a dedicated Tech Digest reader.
You have until 6PM Friday 7th December to enter, so take a look under the jump for how all British residents can win…
YouTube Video of the Day – Emoticon suicide
You’ve already been informed of the birthday of the humble emoticon. Well, it seems they’ve had enough of our (fickle web users) ways and now… it’s time for one last “act of desperation”. Good bye cruel (virtual) world
Break out the lambrini, it's the emoticon's 25th birthday today
Emoticons. Love ’em or hate ’em, you can’t deny you’ve used them at least once, even if it was ironically. Can you believe they were first documented 25 years ago? I bet all the 🙂 and even the 🙁 are out on the town today, boozing hard and fast, falling in and out of nightclubs as they celebrate their 25th birthday. Expect to see some very hung-over emoticons online tomorrow…
Apparently in a forum discussion on September 19th, 1982 (I didn’t even think the ‘tinternet was around then for civillians, let alone had ‘forums’)…
Transformers Optimus Prime birthday cake
At the risk of sounding like a character from the other big blockbuster of the Summer, I’ll say this – mmmm….cake…
And not just any old Victoria Sponge either, it’s an Optimus Prime cake, made up of brownie dirt, fondant grass and a body composed of cake and rice crispy treats. Apparently the size of a toddler…
Offensive word taken out of Mario Party 8, Wii game re-released August 3rd
Your poor, frazzled, politically correct soul can rest easy tonight, as WiiWii has reported that Nintendo just removed that naughty word from Mario Party 8, and it’ll be re-available from August 3rd, something which will no doubt please Martha Stewart, who turns 66 that day. As we know she’s such a fan of the Wii, after all…
Hotmail is 10 this month
Yes it's another web birthday: Hotmail is 10 years old this month! Woo-hoo… Officially launched by entrepreneurs Sabeer Bhatia and Jack Smith in November 1996, it has become the most used web-based email service on the planet. As seems fitting…
A brief history of the iPod: 5 years old today
Today is the iPod's fifth birthday, and in that time it has incarnated in at least 30 formats, plus special editions and colour variations. Here we take a brief journey through iPod history, since October 2001 when the first iPod…
