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@h4ckernews@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 9 hours ago

Facebook Text Log Between Mark Zuckerberg and Kevin Systrom(Instagram Cofounder)

https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/0e4qbvj7w8cwxdlpo010c/AHCMfNHmj03nPnJ-VKDYRvA?dl=0&e=1&noscript=1&preview=Facebook%2Btext%2Blog%2Bbetween%2BMark%2BZuckerberg%2Band%2BKevin%2BSystrom.pdf&rlkey=43f3smc5zi5v82h986hujmvfb

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@h4ckernews@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp yesterday

The computer poetry of J. M. Coetzee's early programming career

https://sites.utexas.edu/ransomcentermagazine/2017/06/28/the-computer-poetry-of-j-m-coetzees-early-programming-career/

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@h4ckernews@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 3 days ago

The Useful Personal Computer

https://technicshistory.com/2025/11/02/the-useful-personal-computer/

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Creatures of Thought

The Useful Personal Computer

To market their new products to people who had not already spent years pining for a computer of their own, the creators of the second wave of microcomputers had to face head on the question of what…
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@BastilleBSD@fosstodon.org  ·  activity timestamp 4 days ago

Did you know FreeBSD Jails were introduced in the year 2000?

Bastille builds upon this 25+ year legacy of rock-solid operating system virtualization.

Respect the classics!

#ThrowbackThursday #FreeBSD #Jails #TechHistory #BastilleBSD

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@BastilleBSD@fosstodon.org  ·  activity timestamp 4 days ago

Did you know FreeBSD Jails were introduced in the year 2000?

Bastille builds upon this 25+ year legacy of rock-solid operating system virtualization.

Respect the classics!

#ThrowbackThursday #FreeBSD #Jails #TechHistory #BastilleBSD

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Stefan Bohacek
@stefan@stefanbohacek.online  ·  activity timestamp 4 days ago

"On 12 November 1990 [Tim Berners-Lee and Robert Cailliau] published a formal proposal outlining principal concepts and defining important terms behind the web. The document described a "hypertext project" called "WorldWideWeb" in which a "web" of "hypertext documents" could be viewed by “browsers”."

https://home.cern/science/computing/where-web-was-born

https://www.w3.org/Proposal.html

#WorldWideWeb #HypertextProject #TheWeb #internet #TechHistory #technology #OnThisDay #OTD

WorldWideWeb: Proposal for a HyperText Project

CERN

Where the web was born

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@stefan@stefanbohacek.online  ·  activity timestamp 4 days ago

"On 12 November 1990 [Tim Berners-Lee and Robert Cailliau] published a formal proposal outlining principal concepts and defining important terms behind the web. The document described a "hypertext project" called "WorldWideWeb" in which a "web" of "hypertext documents" could be viewed by “browsers”."

https://home.cern/science/computing/where-web-was-born

https://www.w3.org/Proposal.html

#WorldWideWeb #HypertextProject #TheWeb #internet #TechHistory #technology #OnThisDay #OTD

WorldWideWeb: Proposal for a HyperText Project

CERN

Where the web was born

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@h4ckernews@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 4 days ago

What happened to Transmeta, the last big dotcom IPO

https://dfarq.homeip.net/what-happened-to-transmeta-the-last-big-dotcom-ipo/

#HackerNews #Transmeta #Dotcom #IPO #TechHistory #TechNews #StartupStories #Innovation

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@h4ckernews@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 6 days ago

Real VT102 Emulation with MAME

https://zork.net/~st/jottings/Real-VT102-emulation-with-MAME.html

#HackerNews #RealVT102 #Emulation #MAME #RetroComputing #TechHistory

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@h4ckernews@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 7 days ago

The Computer Church – Pennsylvania Computer and Technology Museum

https://www.thecomputerchurch.org/

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@h4ckernews@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp last week

Reviving Classic Unix Games: A 20-Year Journey Through Software Archaeology

https://vejeta.com/reviving-classic-unix-games-a-20-year-journey-through-software-archaeology/

#HackerNews #RevivingUnixGames #SoftwareArchaeology #ClassicGames #RetroGaming #TechHistory

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@h4ckernews@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp last week

1973 Implementation of Wordle was Published by DEC (2022)

https://troypress.com/1973-implementation-of-wordle-was-published-by-dec/

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Troy Press

1973 Implementation of Wordle was Published by DEC

While some have traced Wordle to Lingo, a game show that started in 1987, they’ve missed an earlier implementation: WORD was published in 101 Computer Games by Digital Equipment Corp. in 1973 and l…
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@h4ckernews@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

The Microsoft SoftCard for the Apple II: Getting two processors to share memory

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20251104-00/?p=111758

#HackerNews #Microsoft #SoftCard #Apple #II #Memory #Sharing #Two #Processors #TechHistory

The Old New Thing

The Microsoft SoftCard for the Apple II: Getting two processors to share the same memory - The Old New Thing

Reportedly Microsoft's first hardware product.
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@h4ckernews@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

Linkers: A 20 Part Series (2007)

https://www.airs.com/blog/archives/38

#HackerNews #Linkers #A20PartSeries #2007 #TechHistory #Programming #Articles

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@h4ckernews@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

Autodesk's John Walker Explained HP and IBM in 1991

https://www.cringely.com/2015/06/03/autodesks-john-walker-explained-hp-and-ibm-in-1991/

#HackerNews #Autodesk #HP #IBM #JohnWalker #TechHistory #1991

I, Cringely - on technology

Autodesk’s John Walker explained HP and IBM in 1991

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@h4ckernews@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

Chip Hall of Fame: Intel 8088 Microprocessor

https://spectrum.ieee.org/chip-hall-of-fame-intel-8088-microprocessor

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IEEE Spectrum

Chip Hall of Fame: Intel 8088 Microprocessor

The “castrated” processor that birthed the IBM PC
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@h4ckernews@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

OS maintained by a single developer since 1997: Visopsys

https://visopsys.org/

#HackerNews #OS #Visopsys #Developer #1997 #HackerNews #TechHistory #SingleDeveloper

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@h4ckernews@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

OS/2 Warp, PowerPC Edition

https://www.os2museum.com/wp/os2-history/os2-warp-powerpc-edition/

#HackerNews #OS2Warp #PowerPC #OS2History #RetroComputing #TechHistory

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@h4ckernews@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

A brief history of random numbers

https://crates.io/crates/oorandom#a-brief-history-of-random-numbers

#HackerNews #randomnumbers #historyofnumbers #randomness #statistics #techhistory

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@h4ckernews@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

Picture gallery: Amiga prototype "Lorraine" at the Amiga 40 event

https://www.amiga-news.de/en/news/AN-2025-10-00110-EN.html

#HackerNews #AmigaPrototype #Amiga40 #Lorraine #RetroGaming #TechHistory #AmigaEvent

amiga-news.de - Picture gallery: Amiga prototype "Lorraine" at the Amiga 40

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