Consider the pigeon, a surprisingly capable technology (2019)
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GNU and the AI reimplementations
23 votes -
Ian's Shoelace Site is still the best site for tying your shoes
76 votes -
Microsoft has killed widgets six times. Here's why they keep coming back.
34 votes -
David Bowie on the Internet
5 votes -
When buttons were the hottest new thing in radio
20 votes -
Twenty-five years of Wikipedia - an interactive retrospective ~fifteen minute read
38 votes -
A photo essay of 20+ tech museums across the world
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
55 votes -
How Wall Street ruined the Roomba and then blamed Lina Khan
44 votes -
One too many words on AT&T's $2,000 Korn shell and other Usenet topics
12 votes -
Matthew Perry, Jennifer Aniston and a gaggle of stereotypes introduce Windows 95 features in this time capsule video
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Tim Berners-Lee: Why I gave the world wide web away for free
18 votes -
Hacking a weird (retro) TV censoring device
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Frame of preference: a history of Mac settings, 1984–2004
19 votes -
In-car sat nav? Without a satellite? In 1971? | Tomorrow's World | Retro tech
10 votes -
IRC - The Serial Port's love letter to Internet Relay Chat
26 votes -
The day return became enter
56 votes -
Ben-Hur on a computer screen
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My ordinary life: Improvements since the 1990s
31 votes -
Turn any webpage into a 1990s GeoCities blink fest
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Swiss embassy radio
8 votes -
Ten desktop publishing tools that didn’t make it
19 votes -
A history of GetRight
10 votes -
GenAI is our polyester
17 votes -
In 1978, Arthur C. Clarke predicted the rise of AI and wondered what would happen to humanity
18 votes -
Intelligent Agent Technology: Open Sesame! (1993)
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Closed captions on DVDs are getting left behind
14 votes -
The internet used to be a place
29 votes -
A 1903 proposal to preserve the dead in glass cubes
16 votes -
When ChatGPT broke an entire field: An oral history
14 votes -
YouTube at 20: From ‘Lazy Sunday’ to ‘Hot Ones’
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The GNU nano text editor is named by analogy
18 votes -
The GeoCities Website Maker is a fun and charming way to turn any modern webpage into a nostalgic 90s-style site
26 votes -
Review: Cræft, by Alexander Langlands
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AI chatbots are people, too. (Except they’re not.)
10 votes -
Algorithmic complacency: Algorithms are breaking how we think
82 votes -
The birth and glory of Swedish computers
7 votes -
The 88x31 GIF Collection
64 votes -
Space hifi
6 votes -
How AI is unlocking ancient texts — and could rewrite history
16 votes -
In memoriam: Thomas E. Kurtz, 1928–2024
14 votes -
Grooveshark: The original Spotify
21 votes -
Img_0416
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Make it ephemeral: software should decay and lose data
24 votes -
‘We were wrong’: An oral history of WIRED’s original website
14 votes -
Thinking on storage
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Duracell PowerCheck: A genius idea which didn't last that long
51 votes -
45 years ago CompuServe connected the world before the World Wide Web
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Inside Iron Mountain: It’s time to talk about hard drives
23 votes