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Software 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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