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computer history This 1984 video showing how travelers checked their email is like ancient history Mark Frauenfelder
lost media Missing manual for world's oldest surviving computer found Gareth Branwyn
quarantine crafting This tiny model of a big IBM 1401 computer from 1959 is so great Xeni Jardin
retrocomputing 108 rare and bizarre information storage media types Gareth Branwyn
retro games Trailer for "Insert Coin," a new documentary about the creators of the biggest videogames of the 1990s David Pescovitz
apollo 11 Explainer video about the digital computer onboard Apollo 11 Mark Frauenfelder
computer history Larry Tesler, the father of cut, copy, paste, has died Gareth Branwyn
computer history A guide to Silicon Valley's High-Tech Heritage Trail David Pescovitz
computer games "Myst" co-creator, Rand Miller, tells "War Stories" about pushing the hardware envelope while developing this classic 90s computer game Gareth Branwyn
nvidia Visualizing the evolution of the Nvidia GPU (VIDEO) Xeni Jardin
computer history Kitty: a wonderful early computer animation from Russia (1968) David Pescovitz
phoenix computers Podcast: "IBM PC Compatible": how adversarial interoperability saved PCs from monopolization Cory Doctorow
phoenix computers "IBM PC Compatible": how adversarial interoperability saved PCs from monopolization Cory Doctorow
rfc822 The Computer History Museum just published the sourcecode for Eudora Cory Doctorow
computer history This sketch from 43 years ago shows kids playing a video game on their "iPad" Mark Frauenfelder
computer history Man orders a pizza using a talking computer (1974) Mark Frauenfelder
web design Watch: How "oldschool" computer graphics worked back in the eighties Xeni Jardin
computer history "The Computer Girls," 1967 Cosmopolitan magazine article on women working with technology Xeni Jardin
60s The IBM 1620, an affordable "scientific computer" from 1959. Xeni Jardin
fivethirtyeight "The Queen of Code," new short documentary on computing pioneer Grace Hopper Red Scott