Von Routern und historischen Ereignissen Since we’ve been talking about historic events here these days, let me add another one to my list. This one, however, should be marked as a historic day in my personal bibliography. The day when my router finally got a password! Da wir in den letzten Tagen nun schon über historische Ereignisse sprechen, erlaubt mir, ein weiteres Ereignis zu der Liste hinzuzufügen. Dieses, allerdings, zählt zu den “persönlichen” historischen Ereignissen: Der Tag an dem mein Router endlich ein Passwort erhalten hat! You see, the story goes like this. Pretty much 7 years ago, I got a router to access the internet at home more easily (yap, you don’t need to tell me that it’s a pretty old router, I’m fully aware of that but hey! it still works!) So, when I got that router 7 years ago, for some reason there was a glitch with the password, and no one could figure out how solve the problem, so after a whole lot of ballyhoo the pros from the computer department …