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HAKMEM Programming Hacks
The 1972 MIT AI Memo full of clever bit-twiddling tricks and mathematical hacks by Beeler, Gosper and Schroeppel, retype…
Halt and Catch Fire Syllabus
A self-guided curriculum built around the TV series Halt and Catch Fire, pairing each episode with readings, videos and…
Higher Intellect
A vast old-school archive of over 850,000 text files, PDFs, ebooks and images covering computing history, hacking, scien…
In the Beginning Was the Command Line
Neal Stephenson's classic 1999 essay on operating systems, user interfaces and culture, comparing Windows, Mac, Linux an…
Infinite Mac
Classic Macintosh and NeXT systems from 1984 onward running instantly in the browser, complete with period software libr…
John Graham-Cumming
The personal blog of former Cloudflare CTO John Graham-Cumming, mixing programming history, cryptanalysis, and stories f…
Ken Shirriff's Blog
Ken Shirriff's blog reverse engineering vintage chips and hardware, from Apollo guidance computers to microscopic die ph…
Lenna Meets Lenna in Person
The story of Lenna Soderberg attending an imaging conference in 1997, where researchers met the woman behind the famous…
MINIX 3
The home of MINIX, the small teaching operating system created by Andrew Tanenbaum that influenced Linux's early develop…
MIT AI Lab Tourist Policy
A classic piece of hacker folklore: the rules for tourists using the MIT AI Lab's ITS machines in the days when the lab'…
MSX.org
A community hub for the MSX home computer standard, with news, downloads, and forums for a platform still actively used…
Multicians
A memorial and reference site run by former engineers of Multics, the influential 1960s operating system that inspired U…
No Web Without Women
A visual collection of computing and technology innovations made possible by women, from Ada Lovelace's first algorithm…
On the Origins of .DS_Store
Explains where the mysterious .DS_Store files that litter Mac folders came from, tracing the name and Finder history in…
OS/2 Museum
A detailed technical blog exploring the history of IBM OS/2 and DOS-era software internals, written by an operating syst…
Our Friend The Computer
A podcast exploring alternative computing histories, from forgotten machines to the people and communities left out of t…
Pagetable
The blog of engineer Michael Steil, with deep technical dives into vintage computer internals, ROM disassembly, and reve…
PCjs Machines
Working JavaScript emulations of the original IBM PC and other vintage machines, booting real DOS, OS/2, and early Windo…
Retrocomputing Stack Exchange
A question-and-answer community where enthusiasts discuss vintage hardware, obscure operating systems, and the history o…
Steve's Old Computers
A hobbyist museum of vintage computers from the 1970s and 80s, with photos, specs, and stories about machines like the A…
Tangible Media
A historical collection of information storage technology, from punch cards and roller organ barrels to tapes and disks,…
The Computer Genius the Communists Couldn't Stand
The story of Jacek Karpinski, who built a briefcase-sized computer in 1970s Poland that ran a million operations per sec…
The Digital Antiquarian
Jimmy Maher's ongoing narrative history of computer games and interactive entertainment, told through meticulously resea…
The Director of Toy Story Also Drew the BSD Daemon
A short bit of computing trivia revealing that John Lasseter, director of Toy Story, drew the BSD daemon mascot, with th…
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