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# Odd tech facts

## Latest entries

- [Subnet masks: a complete guide for infrastructure professionals](https://www.stackscale.com/blog/subnet-masks-a-complete-guide-for-infrastructure-professionals/) — Few things are as fundamental in infrastructure management as subnet masks—and few are understood as superficially. Anyone who has ever configured a network interface has typed 255.255.255.0 almost on...
- [The Linux kernel prepares for a “day after” Linus Torvalds](https://www.stackscale.com/blog/linux-kernel-prepares-for-day-after-linus-torvalds/) — For more than three decades, the Linux kernel has grown with a comfortable paradox: a massive project maintained by hundreds of people worldwide, yet with a final, centralised step that has effectivel...
- [The 500 most powerful supercomputers use Linux](https://www.stackscale.com/blog/most-powerful-supercomputers-linux/) — The world’s most powerful supercomputers use Linux. A supercomputer is a device whose computing capabilities are by far higher than those of common computers. The most powerful supercomputer nowadays...
- [What happens on the Internet in one minute?](https://www.stackscale.com/blog/internet-one-minute/) — A lot of data and actions fit in a minute on the Internet . This huge worldwide network has become an indispensable element in the daily lives of many people around the world. We use it for learning,...
- [All Internet servers together draw the world map](https://www.stackscale.com/blog/internet-servers-map/) — All Internet servers together draw the world map, but global interconnection is also represented in many other maps that collect data from different activities and sectors. It is especially interestin...
- [Archie, the first Internet search engine](https://www.stackscale.com/blog/archie-internet-search-engine/) — September 10, 2021 is the 31st anniversary of Archie , the first Internet search engine . Archie was launched on September 10, 1990, and developed by Alan Emtage, Bill Heelan and Peter Deutsch at McGi...
- [AltaVista Search Engine’s 25th anniversary](https://www.stackscale.com/blog/altavista-25-anniversary/) — It has been 25 years since AltaVista, one of the first major Internet search engines , was made public. AltaVista was launched on September 15, 1995, by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC). DEC’s sear...
- [The Arctic World Archive: a project to preserve the world’s digital memory](https://www.stackscale.com/blog/arctic-world-archive/) — How many important data might have been lost in ephemeral storage? The mission of the Arctic World Archive (AWA) is enabling data preservation for centuries .  The Arctic World Archive was officially...
- [Who keeps the Internet’s clocks in sync?](https://www.stackscale.com/blog/internet-clocks-sync/) — Have you ever wonder who keeps all the Internet’s clocks in sync? The Internet’s most famous “clock maker” is Judah Levine . The physician Judah Levine contributed to create the software to control th...