Posts that commenters keep linking to, ranked by how many different people have cited them in Hacker News comments. 9 posts.
Bill Atkinson worked mostly at home, but whenever he made significant progress he rushed in to Apple to show it off to anyone who would appreciate it. This time, he visited the Macintosh offices at Texaco Towers to show off his brand new oval routines, which were implemented using a really clever algorithm.
When brothers Thomas and John Knoll began designing and writing an image editing program in the late 1980s, they could not have imagined that they would be adding a word to the dictionary.
Story from the development of the Multics operating system. Unix, our famous child.
The 2000-year-old scroll discusses music, food, and how to enjoy life’s pleasures.
A story about quality from the development of the Multics operating system.
Anyone who still has a working Spectrum ZX will then be able to test the game.
Learn more about the early days of LAN.
For Richard, a crazy idea was an opportunity to either prove it wrong or prove it right.
Since 2008, over a hundred billion apps have been downloaded from Apple’s App Store onto users’ iPhones or iPads. However, the technology and tools powering the mobile “app revolution” are not themselves new, but rather have a long history spanning over thirty years, one which connects back to the beginnings of…
