A barely belated 'Happy birthday' goes out to Sony's PlayStation 3 game console, which turned 5 years old yesterday (or a week ago today if you prefer to celebrate its Japan launch rather than its release in the U.S.). The PS3 has been through a few changes since it debuted half a decade ago and shed much of its baby fat, but is mostly the same console overall.

A belated birthday wish goes out to the Mozilla Foundation, the not-for-profit organization which turned 8 years old on Friday. Mozilla's roots actually date back to early 1998 when Netscape created the Mozilla Organization to oversee the development of the Mozilla Application Suite. On July 15, 2003, AOL (Netscape's parent company) helped launch the Mozilla Foundation, and gave the three-person team a set of wings in the form of hardware, intellectual property, and a $2 million donation before pushing it out of the nest to fly on its own.

Believe it or not, email turns 40 years old today, though you'd never know it by looking. Unlike MySpace, BBSing, and Val Kilmer, email is still contributing to society and is arguably the most important form of communication, if not the most used. That wasn't always the case and email is quite a bit different than it was when the first electronic mail was sent back in 1971.

There's a bit of debate on what exactly qualifies as the world's first computer virus, especially since the term, as it applies to computer code, didn't exist in the early days of computing. Many, however, credit the Creeper virus as being the first, which spawned this day 40 years ago (1971). Anyone feel like celebrating?