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Was watching a history YouTube video when I realized they are all AI
- social media
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Ink Explainer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49_Ph2q6uIM Genius History: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHCamT4zfH4 It is the exact same AI voice. How sad.

48 comments

ocean-hai

October 7

28 votes
Japan tried to build an operating system for the entire world, then the US government intervened

Article 3389 words

17 comments

xda-developers.com

August 21

50 votes
What we lost when we quit using crappy old web forums
- internet
Link
33 comments

tedium.co

August 9

43 votes
The first website was launched thirty-five years ago
- internet
Link
7 comments

cern.ch

August 6

41 votes
Let's all meet up in the Y2K
- apple
Article 1067 words
0 comments

gingerbeardman.com

August 6

21 votes
The mystery of the Wikipedia high-five photos couple

Article 1716 words, published Feb 14 2022

5 comments

inverse.com

August 3

67 votes
Long time no sea: finding the seahorse emoji

Article 266 words

6 comments

gingerbeardman.com

July 17

48 votes
Palantir has a nemesis and I accidentally found him
Video 17:28, published Jul 9 2026
3 comments

YouTube: Aaron Nev

July 13

17 votes
Finland's last landline call has been made as the Nordic country becomes the latest to retire copper-wire phones in favour of fibre

Article 357 words

11 comments

euronews.com

July 2

31 votes
The meaning of 'hack'
- security.cyber
Article 2280 words
1 comment

comedia.com

June 29

11 votes
Ruins of the web: Hello Internet
- internet
Video 19:55
12 comments

YouTube: EmperorTigerstar

June 12

20 votes
An interactive introduction to the terrific experience of rendering Arabic typography and its technical debt

Article 8632 words

1 comment

lr0.org

June 11

15 votes
A vernacular web (2005, Olia Lialina)

Article 690 words

1 comment

teleportacia.org

June 4

7 votes
Farewell, Jeeves: Ask.com shuts down
- internet
Article 163 words
7 comments

TechCrunch

May 2

48 votes
Consider the pigeon, a surprisingly capable technology (2019)
- internet
Article 1475 words, published Mar 29 2019
1 comment

ieee.org

March 13

18 votes
GNU and the AI reimplementations

Link

3 comments

antirez.com

March 8

23 votes
Ian's Shoelace Site is still the best site for tying your shoes

Article 1092 words

34 comments

aftermath.site

January 15

76 votes
Microsoft has killed widgets six times. Here's why they keep coming back.
- microsoft
Article 2178 words
24 comments

xakpc.dev

February 3

34 votes
David Bowie on the Internet
- internet
Video
1 comment

YouTube

January 29

5 votes
When buttons were the hottest new thing in radio

Article 873 words, published Dec 30 2024

5 comments

paleofuture.com

January 20

20 votes
Twenty-five years of Wikipedia - an interactive retrospective ~fifteen minute read
- internet
Link
4 comments

wikipedia25.org

January 15

38 votes
A photo essay of 20+ tech museums across the world

Article 4357 words

3 comments

aresluna.org

January 10

21 votes
52 years later, only known copy of Unix v4 recovered from randomly found tape, now up and running on a system — first OS version with kernel and core utilities written in 'newfangled language' C

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1 comment

tomshardware.com

December 25, 2025

55 votes
How Wall Street ruined the Roomba and then blamed Lina Khan
- amazon
- privacy
Link
14 comments

thebignewsletter.com

December 19, 2025

44 votes
One too many words on AT&T's $2,000 Korn shell and other Usenet topics

Article 12 622 words

1 comment

gabornyeki.com

December 9, 2025

12 votes
Matthew Perry, Jennifer Aniston and a gaggle of stereotypes introduce Windows 95 features in this time capsule video
- microsoft
Video 56:26, published Mar 7 2022
18 comments

YouTube: VCRWORLD

December 5, 2025

26 votes
Tim Berners-Lee: Why I gave the world wide web away for free

Article 1058 words, published Sep 28 2025

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The Guardian

December 6, 2025

18 votes
Hacking a weird (retro) TV censoring device

Video 20:59, published Nov 21 2022

1 comment

YouTube: Ben Eater

November 28, 2025

6 votes
Frame of preference: a history of Mac settings, 1984–2004
- apple
Article 2059 words
7 comments

aresluna.org

November 22, 2025

19 votes
In-car sat nav? Without a satellite? In 1971? | Tomorrow's World | Retro tech

Video 4:58, published Dec 21 2021

1 comment

YouTube: BBC Archive

October 24, 2025

10 votes
IRC - The Serial Port's love letter to Internet Relay Chat

Video 26:08, published Aug 30 2025

7 comments

YouTube: The Serial Port

September 11, 2025

26 votes
The day return became enter

Article 3419 words

15 comments

aresluna.org

September 6, 2025

56 votes
Ben-Hur on a computer screen

Article 544 words

3 comments

daviramos.com

September 5, 2025

15 votes
My ordinary life: Improvements since the 1990s

Link

9 comments

gwern.net

August 27, 2025

31 votes
Turn any webpage into a 1990s GeoCities blink fest
- internet
Link
5 comments

geocities.live

August 18, 2025

24 votes
Swiss embassy radio

Article 1063 words

1 comment

de-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog

July 15, 2025

8 votes
Ten desktop publishing tools that didn’t make it

Link

2 comments

tedium.co

July 8, 2025

19 votes
A history of GetRight

Article 1465 words

1 comment

getright.com

June 17, 2025

10 votes
GenAI is our polyester

Article 1189 words, published Jun 2 2025

4 comments

ghost.io

June 6, 2025

17 votes
In 1978, Arthur C. Clarke predicted the rise of AI and wondered what would happen to humanity

Article 521 words

10 comments

openculture.com

May 31, 2025

18 votes
Intelligent Agent Technology: Open Sesame! (1993)

Article 252 words

2 comments

gingerbeardman.com

May 31, 2025

7 votes
Closed captions on DVDs are getting left behind
- microsoft
Video 33:47, published May 27 2025
1 comment

YouTube: Technology Connections

June 1, 2025

14 votes
The internet used to be a place
- internet
Video 24:36, published Apr 14 2025
4 comments

YouTube: Sarah Davis Baker

May 7, 2025

29 votes
A 1903 proposal to preserve the dead in glass cubes

Article 675 words, published Oct 27 2017

5 comments

hyperallergic.com

May 2, 2025

16 votes
When ChatGPT broke an entire field: An oral history

Article 5324 words

0 comments

Quanta Magazine

May 1, 2025

14 votes
YouTube at 20: From ‘Lazy Sunday’ to ‘Hot Ones’
- social media
Article 1584 words
1 comment

The New York Times

April 23, 2025

5 votes
The GNU nano text editor is named by analogy

Link

5 comments

hachyderm.io

April 15, 2025

18 votes
The GeoCities Website Maker is a fun and charming way to turn any modern webpage into a nostalgic 90s-style site
- internet
Link
10 comments

geocities.live

April 16, 2025

26 votes
Review: Cræft, by Alexander Langlands

Article 4182 words

1 comment

thepsmiths.com

March 24, 2025

4 votes
AI chatbots are people, too. (Except they’re not.)

Article 1219 words

2 comments

computerworld.com

March 2, 2025

10 votes

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