When you ignore history, you're bound to repeat the same mistakes. There's clearly a trend of overpromising and then failing to deliver.
Interesting look back at how our industry evolved. Quite a few events over the years.
A long but very interesting piece starting all the way from early typing on machines to more modern input systems. It's very focused on Apple machines towards the end, but there are good design lessons to draw from the long perspective.
Good summary of how the terms evolved. They are more tied to each other than most people think.
I agree with this short history tour. It's the composability which matters.
This was definitely an interesting operating system and the hardware was fun too. Of course it was lacking quite a bit in applications availability. This was likely too radical for its time and not mature enough when it needed to.
The Internet culture definitely changed at the turn of the 21st century. Before this it was a more civilized and hopeful place. I'd like to see the netizen etiquette make a strong come back.
It all changed so much! That's quite a journey for our field. Of course it's not over yet. At some point we'll be real engineers I guess. 😉
And this is why... we now have chickens. More seriously it's a true testament to genetic and behavioral diversity. This is clearly what allowed some species to escape the disaster.
Interesting piece, shows quite well how new technologies get in the home and then slowly expand. In the case of the Internet, it was indeed literally in a corner of the home before slowly being woven in our lives.
Fascinating origins of "to be". As usual to understand this kind of phenomenon, or at least start to build a theory, you have to go back quite far in history.
Interesting list and way to frame the problem. It's important to maintain this resource, an update is likely needed.
Let's not forget where we're coming from and why window managers tend to be merged with display server. It removes some complexity and some latency.
On the little known history of Lotus Notes. Crossed its path as a teenager during an internship at a bank. Can't say I remember it fondly though.
Yes there's a dip, but this piece presents compelling evidence that it's not the death of literacy we're sometimes screaming at. It is also a love letter to reading and writing.
This fantasy regularly comes back. Yet, the tools evolve, might improve some things but the core difficulties of programming don't change. At each hype cycle our industry over promises and under delivers, this is unnecessary.
Fascinating story about the little known Cantor big mistake. This also shows once more, that even though we like to put people on pedestals and look for a "lone genius" or a "hero", discoveries are always a process of several minds playing of each other.
This is an excellent piece if you like linguistics and its historical component. It shows quite well how much English changed over the centuries.
This is a nice resource trying to document the history of computer hardware. Really cool stuff.
Excellent historical perspective on how we ended up with applications filled with annoying interruptions and notifications. It's been done indeed one step at a time and lead to poor UX really.