A little bit of history

They are auctioning off a mint Apple I computer, expected to sell for $161,600 - $248,200. This machine came out in 1976, with 8K of RAM and a computer that ran at 1 Mhz. The computer I wrote this on has a million times more RAM and has two processors that run over 2500 times faster.

The man who sold a $22 billion share in Apple for $800

Ron Wayne co-founded Apple with Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak. At the beginning he owned 10% of the company. Today that 10% would be worth $22 billion. Alas, Wayne sold his 10% back for $800 before Apple succeeded. A rough investment decision! More details at CNN here.
With a tip'o'the hat to Uncle Eric.

New iPods

Apple announced some new iPods yesterday. They are trying to position the iPod Touch more as a game-playing device (Steve Jobs even said so), and most of the changes to the 3rd generation iPod Touch are to that end: it has a faster processor and new graphics capabilities. It also has more storage, up to 64 Gbs. Prices as shown (American dollars, of course). More, as ever, at Gizmodo.com, from whence the image. Apple also announced new iPod Nanos, with an FM radio and a video camera.

First ever web server

This is a picture of the first-ever web server (a NeXT workstation, made by Steve Jobs when he was briefly out of Apple), used by Tim Berners-Lee, who is credited with inventing the web.

My own minor claim to fame: I visited a page on this server in the early 1990s, when it was almost only web page in the world, using the world's first-ever web browser, Mosaic!

Via BoingBoing via Wikipedia