In memoriam: Thomas E. Kurtz, 1928–2024
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Grooveshark: The original Spotify
21 votes -
Img_0416
35 votes -
Make it ephemeral: Software should decay and lose data
24 votes -
The Mother of All Demos (1968)
8 votes -
‘We were wrong’: An oral history of WIRED’s original website
14 votes -
Thinking on storage
9 votes -
Duracell PowerCheck: A genius idea which didn't last that long
51 votes -
The blogosphere is in full bloom. The rest of the internet has wilted.
27 votes -
45 years ago CompuServe connected the world before the World Wide Web
8 votes -
Inside Iron Mountain: It’s time to talk about hard drives
23 votes -
Tapedeck.org is a digital archive that features hundreds of cassette tape designs
13 votes -
Why GitHub actually won
21 votes -
Microsoft Graveyard: a website for tracking dead and soon-to-be-dead Microsoft products
39 votes -
End of the road: An AnandTech farewell
53 votes -
NSA releases footage of Rear Admiral Grace Hopper speech from the 1980s
32 votes -
The rise and fall of Usenet: How the original social media platform came to be
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Making radio pay: Toll broadcasting and the first ad on the airwaves
6 votes -
It's starting to look a lot like... Y2K
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Objects of Our Life: Steve Jobs' talk at the 1983 design conference in Aspen
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Thirty years later, FreeDOS is still keeping the dream of the command prompt alive
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FreeDOS open-source text-based OS turns 30, still in active development and primarily used for retro gaming
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Fast crimes at Lambda School
21 votes -
Before smartphones, an army of real people helped you find stuff on Google
21 votes -
Goldfish memories - most of China’s early websites have disappeared
30 votes -
Archie, the (pre) Internet’s first search engine, is rescued and running
14 votes -
The forged Apple employee badge
25 votes -
Emoji history: The missing years
6 votes -
Making the Macintosh: Technology and culture in Silicon Valley
11 votes -
Zilog discontinues production of original Z80 processor after forty-eight years
28 votes -
Turning old maps into 3D digital models of lost neighborhoods
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The forgotten war on beepers
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Indexing the information age - Over a weekend in 1995, a small group gathered in Ohio to unleash the power of the internet by making it navigable
13 votes -
An archive of Wikipedia from Thursday, December 20, 2001
18 votes -
The history of X11
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Dave Mills, inventor and longtime coordinator of Network Time Protocol (NTP), died at age 85
34 votes -
Interview with Lanny Smoot
6 votes -
History of the Graphical User Interface (GUI): A wonderful curse
7 votes -
The year Twitter died: a special series from The Verge
26 votes -
History of country code top-level domains, with a map of the most popular ones in use | Map Men
14 votes -
Early on-demand music streaming required lots of nickels
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AT&T's "You will" commercials (1993)
18 votes -
The spirit of “view source”
19 votes -
Twitter’s former head of trust and safety finally breaks her silence
30 votes -
The myth and reality of Mac OS X Snow Leopard
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How a tiny pacific island became a global capital of cybercrime
13 votes -
Net neutrality is about more than just blocking and throttling, don't be fooled by attempts to limit the discussion to these concepts
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Trial testimony - Google considered and rejected creating a form of search that doesn't track users history from website to website
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Internet Artifacts
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The costs of not investing in American public infrastructure, research, and education
29 votes