Skywriting - The bizarre art form invented to promote Lucky Strike cigarettes could bounce back in the Instagram age, or it could die with the few people who know how to do it
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Laying out all the evidence: Shiva Ayyadurai did not invent email
9 votes -
Simply elegant, Morse code marks 175 years and counting
7 votes -
Machine, Learning, 1951
4 votes -
Building a $100,000 speaker - Meridian facility tour
5 votes -
Why I (Still) Love Tech: In Defense of a Difficult Industry
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(1999) A refrigerator that “thinks” – intelligent refrigerator will simplify homes
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The making of Amazon Prime - An oral history of the subscription service that changed online shopping forever
6 votes -
The telegraph was America's first singularity
7 votes -
Meet your iPhone’s grandparent
6 votes -
The rapid rise and slow fall of the Microsoft web browser
6 votes -
Why there's so little left of the early internet
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Why there's so little left of the early internet
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The History of Video | Veritasium
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The long, complicated, and extremely frustrating history of Medium, 2012–present
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Intransigence: A social history of the internet
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The lost worlds of telnet
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The Morris worm at thirty
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The history of Android
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Altavista: The Rise & Fall of the Biggest Pre-Google Search Engine
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Flickr will soon start deleting photos — and massive chunks of internet history
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The internet was built on the free labor of open source developers. Is that sustainable?
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“The Linux of social media” - How LiveJournal pioneered (then lost) blogging
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The Rise and Demise of RSS
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Apple computers used to be built in the US. It was a mess.
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The cover of MAD magazine #258 from October 1985 announces a special computer section featuring the MAD Computer Program
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Remember backing up to diskettes? I’m sorry. I do, too.
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Project Code Rush - The beginnings of Netscape/Mozilla
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Four days trapped at sea with crypto’s nouveau riche
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Navy training video - Mechanical computers [1953]
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An error message in Windows 10 is a mistake from 1974
@foone🏳️⚧️: It is 2018 and this error message is a mistake from 1974.This limitation, which is still found in the very latest Windows 10, dates back to BEFORE STAR WARS. This bug is as old as Watergate. pic.twitter.com/pPbkZiE57t
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The rise and demise of RSS
11 votes -
The very first social network
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How the humble pocket calculator morphed into the smartphone
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The history of shareware, as told by the people who were there
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When Televisions Were Radioactive - Anxieties about the effects of screens on human health are hardly new, but the way the public addresses the problems has changed
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Communist robot dreams
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It's been five years already, let's gawp at Microsoft and Nokia's bloodbath
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100 years before drones, in search of better aerial photography, Dr Julius Neubronner patented a miniature pigeon camera activated by a timing mechanism and created a remarkable body of images.
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St. Louis was the first to use mug shots to capture the bad guys
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The graphing calculator story
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We can't fix the internet (because we conflate social media with the entire internet)
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Even before electricity, robots freaked people out
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A spectre is haunting Unicode
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Project Code Rush - The beginnings of Netscape/Mozilla
6 votes -
A look at a brilliant 1945 paper on the future of computing
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The rise of digital dictatorships - Prof. Yuval Noah Harari
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Project Code Rush - The beginnings of Netscape/Mozilla
6 votes -
A program from a thirty-five year old magazine for “BASIC Month” and a chat with its author
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Remembering an Atari Computer Lab in Hampton, Virginia
3 votes