retrocomputing Looking back on The Source, the first online "information utility," through teletype transcripts Gareth Branwyn

websites Online archive of vintage computer manuals Rob Beschizza

Audio Explore a library of disappearing and extinct sounds at Obsolete Sounds Rusty Blazenhoff

books The wonderful "50 Years of Text Games" newsletter is becoming a book Thom Dunn

Games Brief history of The Oregon Trail videogame David Pescovitz

History Paleocomputing watch: Tech magazines cover the BBS scene Cory Doctorow

music THE BUREAU: Part Ten, "Your Death" — with a Turing Machine, Bouncing Ball Envelope, and Other Randomized Voltage Ethan Persoff

Boing Boing Gadgets ZX Spectrum-style keycaps for your mechanical keyboard Rob Beschizza

happy mutants Reverse-engineering Whatsapp, to let us talk to our friends without Facebook's oversight Cory Doctorow

Business DRM could kill game emulators and erase the history of an artform Cory Doctorow

happy mutants Dial-a-Grue: play Zork with nothing but an old phone Cory Doctorow

floss Software Heritage: Creating a safe haven for software Paul Brown, Free Software Foundation Europe

Business United offered men-only "executive" flights until 1970 Cory Doctorow