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My first months in cyberspace
In early 1995 I was 23 and living in a terraced house in Bristol with four friends, about 18 months…
Read MoreGoogle Chrome at 17 – A history of our browser
I still remember the fall of 2008 when Google launched Chrome – a quirky new browser with a comic book…
Read MorePython: The Documentary | An origin story
This is the story of the world’s most beloved programming language: Python. What began as a side project in Amsterdam…
Read MoreThe OG Low-Code Platform
SPREADSHEETS are the de facto most popular programming environment ever created. Purchase decisions for entire families of personal computers have…
Read MoreEpisode 0001: Ethan Marcotte | So Many Questions Podcast Show
KG: Our guest today on so many questions is Ethan Marcotte. He is the person who coined the phrase “Responsive…
Read MoreThe many, many, many JavaScript runtimes of the last decade
This last decade has seen an inundation of new JavaScript runtimes (and engines in equal measure), enabling us to run…
Read MoreThe History of Ecommerce Part II
In the early 1990s, three companies pioneered online transactions, facing challenges of security and user accessibility. They are hardly known…
Read MoreCSS Intelligence: Speculating On The Future Of A Smarter Language
CSS has evolved from a purely presentational language into one with growing logical powers — thanks to features like container…
Read MoreSoftware release of WWW into public domain
Software release of WWW into public domainDate: 30 Apr 1993The document that officially put the World Wide Web into the…
Read MoreMarkdown and the Slow Fade of the Formatting Fetish
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Read MoreCyberspace Movies in 1995: Silicon Valley Meets Hollywood
Three big budget movies were released in 1995 that had internet themes: the Keanu Reeves flick Johnny Mnemonic in May,…
Read MoreWelcome to the Jam: The looney story of the decades-old ‘Space Jam’ website
In 1996, that team had an especially big movie to market starring the Looney Tunes and NBA legend Michael Jordan:…
Read MoreThe First King of Home Computing
This is the story of Jack Tramiel, one of the most explosive and ruthless founders the computer industry has ever…
Read MoreWhy are we using LLMs as calculators?
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Read MoreAs Firefox turns 20, Mozilla ponders how to restore it to its former glory
Exactly 20 years ago, Mozilla started shipping version 1.0 of its Firefox browser. At the time, you could download it…
Read More50 years ago, CP/M started the microcomputer revolution
Late in the summer of 1974, CP/M first started running on hardware. It became one of the first cross-platform microcomputer…
Read MoreBack to BASIC—the Most Consequential Programming Language in the History of Computing | WIRED
This is why I’ve long argued that BASIC is the most consequential language in the history of computing. It’s a…
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