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The History of UTF-8 as Told by Rob Pike
Rob Pike's first-hand email recounting how he and Ken Thompson designed UTF-8 on a diner placemat in one evening in 1992…
The Jargon File
The legendary hacker culture dictionary maintained by Eric S. Raymond, documenting decades of programmer slang, folklore…
The National Museum of Computing
The UK's National Museum of Computing at Bletchley Park, sharing exhibits and stories about British computing history fr…
The Old Computer Museum
An extensive museum-style catalogue of historic computers, consoles, and calculators, with specifications and photos spa…
The Old New Thing
Raymond Chen's long-running Microsoft blog explaining the quirky historical reasons behind Windows design decisions and…
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Tech
The TRON Project: How Japan Almost Ruled IT
A long read on TRON, Japan's ambitious 1980s open operating system project, and how politics, US trade pressure and bad…
The Turing Bombe
The story of the Turing-Welchman Bombe, the codebreaking machine that helped crack Enigma at Bletchley Park, and of the…
The Unix Heritage Society
The Unix Heritage Society, dedicated to preserving early Unix source code, documentation, and the history of its develop…
The Virtual OS Museum
A museum of over 1,700 operating systems from 1948 to today, pre-installed in a single Linux VM, with screenshots and no…
TNMOC
The National Museum of Computing, based at Bletchley Park, showcasing rebuilt wartime codebreaking machines and the hist…
Tristan Davey's Punch Card Archive
A small archive of punch cards and related computing ephemera from the 1930s to the 1980s, catalogued with scans and not…
Unix History
Home of Eric Levenez's meticulously researched timeline posters charting the genealogy of Unix, Windows, and other opera…
Vintage Apple
An archive preserving early Apple II and Macintosh software, manuals, and marketing material from the first two decades…
Vintage Computer Federation
The nonprofit Vintage Computer Federation, which runs museums and festivals dedicated to preserving and exhibiting histo…
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Gaming
Wander (1974) - a lost mainframe game is found!
The story of Wander, a 1974 mainframe program for building text adventures that was thought lost, and how its source cod…
What Did Ada Lovelace's Program Actually Do?
A clear walk through Ada Lovelace's 1843 Note G, explaining how the first published program for Babbage's Analytical Eng…
World of Spectrum
The definitive software archive and database for the Sinclair ZX Spectrum, preserving thousands of games and programs fr…
WorldWideWeb Rebuild
CERN's faithful browser-based recreation of Tim Berners-Lee's original 1990 WorldWideWeb browser, letting you surf today…
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