Bumper stickers give people a chance to express their personality. So, what happens when the car owner is a dedicated computer geek (like us Pingdom-ites)?

This is what happens.

There is no place like home

The most famous IP address of them all, good old localhost.

Photo by Simon Law.

Computer geek overload

So much going on here. Stickers about LAN parties, Intel, Red Hat Linux, the GEEKCHK license plate, and the slightly unsettling “I read your email” sticker. We’re guessing this one is a sysadmin.

Photo by Heather Masterson.

Microsoft irony

At least, we think this is irony.

Photo by Edward Virtually.

The truck device

Whoever the owner is, he/she is most certainly a *nix geek.

Photo by Kevin Inman.

True Linux dedication – Tux for president!

What, not voting for Torvalds? Awww…

Photo by Travis Bigrigg.

Driver fond of PHP

Subtle statement from a PHP Web programmer perhaps?

Photo by Hansco.

Ouch

That’s it, we’re heading for Facebook…

Photo by Beatrice Murch.

Somebody cares A LOT about fonts

The tiny URL there actually leads to a whole website about the Comic Sans font.

Photo by Al Baxter.

Geek overload, again

A little bit of everything here, with a certain focus on games it would seem.

Photo by QuietDelusions.

404 error, sticker not found

Ah, yes, a good old 404 page, only in real life.

Found at Cathode Tan.

Political statement, geek style

Sometimes HTML can say a lot in very little space.

Photo by Jessie Heaven Lotz.

Apple overdose by Mac addict

Someone showing an abundance (and then some) of Apple love.

Photo by Eric Rice.

Firefox dedication

It’s our preferred Web browser here at Pingdom, and clearly this person agrees.

Photo by Devin Lussier.

Chaser of wireless networks

War driving is the practice of driving around scanning for wireless networks.

Photo by Iulus.

Blogger not happy about criticism

Anyone in the mood of actually calling 1-888-STFU to see what happens?

Photo by Scott Beale at Laughing Squid.

You may recall that we had a post about geeky vanity license plates a while ago. Now all we need is a car with a geeky license plate AND a cool geeky bumper sticker. That would be perfection! (Actually, one car above managed this feat.)

We are sure to have missed some really cool examples of cars with geeky bumper stickers, so if you know of any, please put a link in the comments.

Trailblazers, creatives and innovators have taken the Internet to where it is today and made it an essential part of our everyday lives. We have selected a number of interesting “firsts” from the history of the Internet (and the Web) for your reading pleasure.

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Facebook has announced that it now has 400 million active users. Just one year ago Facebook had 150 million users, so 2009 was an incredible year for the social media giant.

There can be no doubt that Facebook is pretty much unstoppable at the moment, a real juggernaut. For some perspective on Facebook’s amazing growth, we have put together this infographic. We hope you’ll enjoy it!

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Sometimes you want an easy way to share your Pingdom monitoring data with others. So far we’ve had public report pages that you can use, but now we’ve added one more sharing method that is very flexible and easy to use.

Enter our new “report banners”.

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Unless you’ve been hiding under a rock lately, you’ll know that last week Apple announced the iPad, its new tablet device. Reactions have been a mixed bag, and a storm of discussion has swept through the blogosphere about various features the iPad should or shouldn’t have had.

One of the main complaints so far has been the iPad’s lack of multitasking. (To be precise, multitasking is a bit of a misnomer here; the iPhone OS has multitasking. What people really mean is only allowing one app at a time to run.)

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The tech industry is littered with billionaires. We all enjoy a good income, but some clearly have earned more than others. Much, much more. The question is, how much money do the really big names in tech actually have?

To find out, we went through the Forbes 400, a list of the wealthiest Americans, and filtered out the people who work within the tech field, or more specifically: IT.

So here they are, the 20 richest Americans in tech today.

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