The Samantha Johnson Tech Blog

Category: History

  • The History of the Dark Web

    History of the Dark web! What is the Deep Web? And what is the Dark Web? For many the Dark Web is a distant and confusing concept. But for the rest it is a Bitcoin fueled free market or criminal underworld depending on your POV! Enjoy Have fun and VPN days Surfwidow

  • Erich von Daniken and Evidence of E.T Gods

    Are we descended from Aliens? Daniken seems to think so! Growing up his book, entitled ‘Chariots of the Gods’ took the world by storm and made him a celebrity overnight. My father read it and showed me pictures and I was fascinated. It was a fresh way to look at the past. It made more…

  • Are Aliens from our own planet?

    Listen, even the BBC TV science Fiction TV show ‘Doctor Who’ has suggested this many many times. Admiral Byrd said there is lush lands beyond Antarctica! Then we have the Buddhist Monks like Candlelight Author – 15 Dec. 1973 by Tuesday Lobsang Rampa. Who said the same! Common sense says this all just does not…

  • Google Doodle Celebrates Jerry Lawson with games you can code yourself.

    Code your own game with Google Doodle! https://g.co/doodle/bq96xcy To celebrate Jerry Lawson Google have made this fun retro game that you can edit. These little Google Doodles are often celebrating activists and famous figures but sometimes they remember their own (coders that is) and the roots of the gaming industry with less well known movers…

  • Simulation Theory ‘Explained’ Video

    Do we live in a Simulated Universe Truth is nobody really knows what is going on. But in this episode of ‘Tinfoil Hat’ Rizwar Virk comes pretty close to my view, and how quantum mechanics and recent game theory (asset management, running simulations, RPG vs NPC and rendering only what you see) makes understanding the…

  • UK CORONA VIRUS TIMELINE

    I just found this interesting no mention of parties and Dominic Cummings at Number 10 of course 😉 Wasn’t this a weird time though? For most techies and coders this was business as usual! LOL! TBH I didn’t even realise there was a pandemic :P! FULL IMAGE Have fun and snotty days Surfwidow!

  • Happy Birthday Google Search giant Google is now 25 years old

    Happy Birthday Google Search giant Google is now 25 years old Launched in 1997 Search through time https://www.google.com/search/howsearchworks/our-history/ Happy Birthday Google and what a journey it has been! It literally has changed lives given Youtubers a good living, given free internet tools from email to docs and made search easy and safe(er). Have fun and…

  • Romanian Voice Winner Bogdan Loan Michael Jackson Impersonator

    Probably the best Michael Jackson Impersonator I have ever heard! Sure there are better dancers and lookalikes (whole package), but as a vocalist unbelievable! He went on to win the Romanian Voice and I found him by accident….what do you think? I mean English his not his first language either! As Michael is no longer…

  • Masons Minerals The Plymouth Devon UK Soft Drinks Company Mason’s

    Long Gone Plymouth Companies I maybe showing my age and location…. But in the 70s and way before zero sugar! Existed in Cattedown Plymouth the Mason’s Minerals soft drinks company. Housed in a building just off Southside Street in Plymouth was a building that supplied Plymouth with returnable fizzy drinks from lemonade to Vimto! I…

  • What is the Largest Cave in the World? (SOLVED!)

    Sơn Đoòng Thinhakapete, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons Not very often images can express the majesty or beauty of nature than these panoramas. It is a virtual tour recently featured by Google Doodles and it is very impressive! Its rare I click those but this was really worth it, mainly because it is not…