Stories tagged as historical History and retrospectives (not for things that happen to be old)

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    The Age of the Amplifier hardware historical science construction-physics.com
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    Points are a weird and inconsistent unit of measure design historical buttondown.com/hillelwayne
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    The Most Emacs Bzr Saga emacs historical vcs thanosapollo.org
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    Why Should I Care What Color the Bikeshed Is? culture historical bikeshed.com
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    How Rockstar fit an entire city into PlayStation 2 memory video games graphics historical youtube.com
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    dBase: 1979-2026 databases historical delphinightmares.substack.com
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    Why Don’t Lowercase Letters Come Right After Uppercase Letters in ASCII? historical programming tylerhillery.com
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    Why Did Thomas Harriot Invent Binary? historical math link.springer.com
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    A dispute over the TAB key between Microsoft and IBM organizational structures historical devblogs.microsoft.com
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    fast16 | High-Precision Software Sabotage 5 Years Before Stuxnet historical reversing sentinelone.com
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    A Personal History of APL (1982) - Michael S. Montalbano apl historical ed-thelen.org
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    Lectures on history of programming languages ☶ ask education historical
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    Babylon and the Square Root of 2 (2011) historical math johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com
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    voice modems historical computer.rip
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    The world’s most complex machine hardware historical worksinprogress.co
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    Martin Galway's music assembly player from Commodore 64 games assembly historical retrocomputing github.com/martingalway
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    Annotated source code for the Elite Demonstration Disc historical retrocomputing reversing elite.bbcelite.com
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    Math is hard (OpenBSD on VAX) historical openbsd miod.online.fr
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    What we once had (at the height of the XMPP era of the Internet) (2023) historical kirsle.net
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    The electromechanical angle computer inside the B-52 bomber's star tracker hardware historical science righto.com
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    What Really Happened in Y2K? pdf historical gresham.ac.uk
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    What happened to Metalink? ☶ ask historical web
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    The thrilling adventures of Lovelace and Babbage book design historical plt archive.org
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    Franklin's bad ads for Apple ][ clones and the beloved impersonator they relied on hardware historical buttondown.com/suchbadtechads
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    Running the first program historical math retrocomputing enigmaticcode.wordpress.com
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