A Norwegian Student get $885520 with Bitcoin

In 2009 Kristoffer Koch spent $26.60 to bought some bitcoin for fun and then forgot about it.
He remembered about it in April 2013 when the bitcoins started to buzz and he discovered that he has 5000 bitcoins now. In today's rates it's about $885520.

Bitcoin is an internet currency that only exist online. you can acquire them on an online exchange or you can "mine" them. This currency is very volatile.

Internet Archive opens a Historical Software Collection

The Internet Archive recently launched the Historical Software Collection, with the mission of making old programs accessible.
Those games were originally released for platforms like Atari and Commodore 64.

In the Historical Software Collection, there is no need to use an emulators to try them out because these programs are playable in browser. The Internet Archive is now experimenting with an in-browser emulator that allows you to try software in the archives.

 

Project Shield by Google

Project Shield is an initiative launched by Google Ideas to use Google's own Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack mitigation technology to protect free expression online.
Project Shield is currently offered free of charge to trusted testers.