Google's
homepage today has an animated tribute to Nicolaus Copernicus on this
540th anniversary of his birthday. Only the planets know to exist in
Copernicus's day (out to Jupiter) are shown
orbiting the sun, plus our moon is orbiting Earth. Galileo had not yet
discovered the large large moons of
Jupiter nor had Christiaan Huygens found
Saturn's largest moon, Titan. Right-click in an empty place on the
screen and select View Source to see the immense amount of code used
to generate that animation (turn word wrap on).
RF Cafe began life in 1996 as "RF Tools" in an AOL screen name web space totaling
2 MB. Its primary purpose was to provide me with ready access to commonly needed
formulas and reference material while performing my work as an RF system and circuit
design engineer. The World Wide Web (Internet) was largely an unknown entity at
the time and bandwidth was a scarce commodity. Dial-up modems blazed along at 14.4 kbps
while tying up your telephone line, and a lady's voice announced "You've Got Mail"
when a new message arrived...
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