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Won’t be big Thirty years ago today, Linus Torvalds announced his free operating system to the world. As with many of the world’s greatest, Linux had humble beginnings as a very small pet project. The GNU was working on an ambitious free, public domain operating system but the project had been delayed, and enthusiasts…
An in-depth analysis that explains how this console works internally
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The text of Dwarf Fortress and procedural tales so expansive no human could ever explore them all.
Comparing astrological drawings from our Digital Collections to NASA images—how similar do you think they are?
Edsger W. Dijkstra? Alan Perlis? Jacques Arsac? George Johnson? Donald Knuth? Matthew Dennis Haines? Anonymous?
An introductory technical analysis of the Yamaha DX7, detailing some of the known information about the synthesiser’s engineering.
"REAL stories. REAL history."
When four MIT hackers decide they can make a better Adventure, they start building a game that will still be topping bestseller charts eight years later.
A blog in which a dedicated addict plays through all PC computer role-playing games (CRPGs), in chronological order.
The Yamaha DX7 digital synthesizer was released in 1983 and became extremely popular, defining the sound of 1980s pop music. Because micro...
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Movies and computer games are my two favorite things. If I weren’t doing one I’d be doing the other.
Soviet rocket engines - this article is about their history, their development, their use and their rockets.
On the occasion of Peter Kropotkin's birthday, we present an account of his escape from prison in Tsarist Russia.
I went looking for a defining color of the personal computer era. I found it in an old jar of paint.
We’ve lost far too many hackers to suicide. What if Satoshi was one of them?
I've taken the week between Christmas and New Year's off this year. I didn't really have anything serious planned, just taking a break from the usual routine. As often happens, I got sucked into doing a project when I received this simple bug report Debian Bug #974011
The Greek researcher and storyteller Herodotus of Halicarnassus (fifth century BCE) was the world's first historian. In The Histories , he describes the expansion of the Achaemenid empire under its kings Cyrus the Great , Cambyses and Darius I the Great , culminating in king Xerxes ' expedition in 480 BCE against the…
Deep underneath South Kensington tube station, a huge project is underway to replace all five of the station's escalators, and all of them at the same time.
During the 1970s and 1980s, Robert Tinney illustrated some of the most amazing computer artwork for BYTE magazine.
The Nobel Prize in Physics 2021 was awarded "for groundbreaking contributions to our understanding of complex physical systems" with one half jointly to Syukuro Manabe and Klaus Hasselmann "for the physical modelling of Earth’s climate, quantifying variability and reliably predicting global warming" and the other half…
It's well known that inheritance was invented by Simula . The History of Programming Languages session on Simula tells us the motivations behind that invention. Let's take a look.
The man who invented the interactive fiction genre talks about its past and future.
In fact, there are two free versions: one for Classic MacOS, made freeware when WordPerfect discontinued Mac support, and a native Linux version, for which Corel offered a free, fully-working, demo version. But there is a catch of course: theyre both very old and hard to run on a…
Our discussion on the creation of the great-granddaddy of all computer wargames
Update (August 23, 2023) – The retirement announced in this blog post is now complete. There are no more EC2 instances running with EC2-Classic networking. Update (July 29, 2021) – Added link to the Support Automation Workflow document & clarified link to AWS MGN pricing. Also updated the list of recommended instance…
