We keep finding floppies in use at surprising places. There's clearly lot of inertia for technologies getting replaced.

Interesting musing about the "software crisis" which was declared in the late 60s. We're coping with it by piling levels of abstractions but clearly we're still not out of it. Our craft still needs to grow.

I remember playing with this a long time again... but it's actually even older than I suspected.

Another story of precursors in the tech space. They basically invented the palmtop and spawned Symbian which was very much dominant on mobile for a while. The end of the Nokia story is a bit oversimplified for my taste just glancing over Maemo, but it is forgivable since it wasn't the focus of this piece.

Very interesting piece... shows how someone can end up maintaining something essential for decades. This is a lesson for us all.

Ever wondered where fuzz testing is coming from? This is an important bit of history.

So yes, the climate changed before... now slowly scroll until the end to appreciate how brutal it is this time.

Definitely a complicated history... this doesn't make the evolution or documentation of it easy.

The often forgotten history behind the creation of Git. This article does a good job summarizing it.

Very nice account of how the Internet is nowadays and how it got there. I like the gardening metaphor which works nicely here. And yes, we can go back to a better Web again. It's a collective decision though, that's what makes it hard.

Interesting facts about how the ethernet frame MTU came to be 1500 bytes.

Interesting look at the history of inheritance in programming languages. There's clearly still room for improvements on this concept.

Interesting history behind the company which was instrumental in pushing computer graphics forward during its time.

Very interesting theory on why the nautiloids started disappearing. A specie developed lips...

An old article, but a fascinating read. This gives a good account on the evolution of POSIX and Win32. The differences in design and approaches are covered. Very much recommended.

Fascinating trick in 2d graphics. Not really useful nowadays, but interesting.

Very nice documentary about the creation of Lemmings. It's especially incredible what you can do with a bunch of pixels. This is a lesson in minimalism. And to think it was initially rejected by publishers... This is a fascinating story through and through with a lot of (sometimes surprising) ramifications.

Going back on the history of the introduction of version control in software engineering and how Git ended up so dominant. We often forget there was a time before Git.

A trip down memory lane when such attacks were indeed common. Nowadays, we know better though.

Interesting explanation of the method of differences to easily compute polynomials.