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In 1982, a physics joke gone wrong sparked the invention of the emoticon - Ars Technica
Modal editing is a weird historical contingency we have through sheer happenstance
Tim Berners-Lee Invented the World Wide Web. Now He Wants to Save It
Sing, sang, sung and other linguistic fossils
Inside Windows 3
The Big OOPs: Anatomy of a Thirty-five-year Mistake
How the alphabet began
You won’t believe how old TDD is
The raccoons who made computer magazine ads great – Technologizer by Harry McCracken
Understanding the Origins and the Evolution of Vi & Vim
The dark side of the Moomins
Post Apocalyptic Computing
Music labels will regret coming for the Internet Archive, sound historian says
the death of the architect
What You Can Learn from Just Seven Pages by Hannah Arendt
W3C 30th anniversary clip
German Navy still uses 8-inch floppy disks, working on emulating a replacement | Ars Technica
Of Psion and Symbian - by Bradford Morgan White
BitKeeper, Linux, and licensing disputes: How Linus wrote Git in 14 days
We can have a different web
If Inheritance is so bad, why does everyone use it? • Buttondown
Occasional paper: When Armor Met Lips — Crooked Timber
cohost! - "Rotation with three shears"
Lemmings: Can You Dig It?
Twenty Years Is Nothing – De Programmatica Ipsum
The warrior culture of ancient Sparta did some weird things to their society.
An ode to the neo-grotesque web | Redowan's Reflections
Ethernet is Still Going Strong After 50 Years - IEEE Spectrum
Internet Artifacts
The Theory That Men Evolved to Hunt and Women Evolved to Gather Is Wrong - Scientific American
A literary appreciation of the Olson/Zoneinfo/tz database – Jon Udell
Was Javascript really made in 10 days? • Buttondown
Shining a Light on the Digital Dark Age - Long Now
When the wizards of the web met - The History of the Web
Origin Stories: Plantations, Computers, and Industrial Control
The web's most important decision - The History of the Web
Why do ships use "port" and "starboard" instead of "left" and "right?"
Extracting the Essential Simplicity of the Internet | February 2023 | Communications of the ACM
If we lose the Internet Archive, we're screwed – The Statesman
What is the origin of model-view-controller? - Quora
The Lost Art of Lacing Cable - The Broadcast Bridge - Connecting IT to Broadcast
Why do we call it "boilerplate code?" • Buttondown
"When We All Have Pocket Telephones": A 1920s Comic Accurately Predicts Our Cellphone-Dominated Lives | Open Culture
What’s wrong with medieval pigs in videogames? - Leiden Medievalists Blog
Don’t call it a comeback: Why Java is still champ · GitHub
I assure you, medieval people bathed.
DNS Esoterica - Why you can't dig Switzerland
Agile at 20: The Failed Rebellion - Simple Thread
The Tyranny of Spreadsheets | Tim Harford
Why did the IETF specifically choose 192.168/16 to be a private IP address class?
Collections: This. Isn’t. Sparta. Part I: Spartan School – A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry
Why Mormons Make Great FBI Recruits - Atlas Obscura
Ces pays sont toujours officiellement en guerre, et ils l'ont oublié | Slate.fr
Is Westernisation fact or fiction? The case of Japan and the US | Aeon Essays