Darren Straight's Blog

ICT Enthusiast and photographer.

By - Darren Straight

A Brief Timeline History of the Internet 1971-2011

1971 – Bolt Beranek and Ray Tomlinson invent email by adapting an internal messaging program and extending it to use the ARPANET to send messages between sites. Within a year, three quarters of ARPANET traffic is email. 1976 – The Queen sends an email from the Royal Signals and Radar Establishment in Malvern. 1982 – Scott Fahlman kick-starts smiley-culture by

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Forty Years and Counting: A Birthday milestone for the simple Email

2011 marks an unbelievable 40 years since the creation of email, and with this month also having been the birthday of World Wide Web creator, Tim Berners-Lee, Sky Broadband has put together a factual homage to the lowly email and a celebration of all things online. Engineer Ray Tomlinson is widely credited for sending the first ever email in 1971. It was

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YAMS Descent into madness

This video titled “YAMS Descent into madness”created by Michael (a.k.a Grindboy in game) is bloody brilliant, it really captures the fun we have on my Minecraft Server YAMS (Yet Another Minecraft Server). I’ve watched it a couple of times over now and will probbaly do so again. I love the part at the begging asking for items to be spawned and I

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Adventures in Blockspace Episode 1

This video was made by a Minecraft Addict called Michael (grindboy) 😉 who plays on my server. He’s a great member to have around! 🙂 And though It’s not my server in the video, I thought it worthy of a post which will hopefuly get him some traffic! 🙂 Keep it up grindboy looking forward to seeing the next one.

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Yet Another Minecraft Server Videos – 11th June 2011

As promised some videos of my Minecraft Server YAMS (Yet Another Minecraft Server) – keep them coming people, we have so much good projects to show! ProFoundJed’s video capture of the community preparing for my 26th Birthday Celebration in game: ProFoundJed’s town in the YAMS: 666darius666’s and leetmurdoc testing out gravity on Minecraft: 666darius666’s Minecraft Suicide Fail:

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6 Years ago today I started this blog

6 years ago today on my 20th Birthday I started this blog with the promise: “not to fail and to keep this regularly updated as much as possible” During this time I have certainly learnt that keeping a blog regularly updated is quite a task, not only do I have to find the time to post but I also have to make sure

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Music Video and Lyrics: Lie To Me by Them Changes

Here’s something for you to listen to tonight, a music video from a song called “Lie to Me” from “Them Changes” who are pretty new to the music scene. They are a three-piece hailing from Muswell Hill, North London have been writing and gigging over the past 18 months. The band also performs at their monthly night “Hooligan Soup” at the Wheelbarrow in Camden where they