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How Lisp Became God's Own Programming Language
A look at the fascinating history behind the one programming language with magical powers.
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A blog about the technical side of computing history.
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Where Vim Came From
Tracing the long lineage of software that brought us Vim.
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What Did Ada Lovelace’s Program Actually Do?
In 1843, Ada Lovelace published the first nontrivial program. How did it work?
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Whatever Happened to the Semantic Web?
In 2001, Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web, published an article in Scientific American.
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The genius of binary space partitioning in Doom (2019)
A short history of the data structure that powered the classic first-person shooter.
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Learning BASIC Like It's 1983
Imagining a childhood encounter with BASIC on the Commodore 64.
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The Rise and Contentious Fork of RSS
An unabridged history of RSS' triumphs and failures.
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Things to Know About GNU Readline
What is GNU Readline and where did it come from?
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Roy Fielding's Misappropriated REST Dissertation (2020)
Can history help us make sense of the term 'RESTful API'?
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Friend of a Friend: The Facebook That Could Have Been
Why didn't the FOAF standard give us distributed social networking in the 2000s?
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Version Control Before Git with CVS
What it was like using version control before distributed repositories and commit graphs.
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The Source History of Cat
A tour of the many historical implementations of the Unix cat utility.
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Codecademy vs. the BBC Micro
In 1981, the BBC set out to educate Great Britain about computers. It did a really good job.