Software History

The urge to replace the mainframe has reinvented the mainframe and its problems.

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Biggest and best Fidonet resource on the net! - History of Fidonet

Radio broadcasts leave Earth at the speed of light. Scroll away from Earth and hear how far the biggest hits of the past have travelled. The farther away you get, the longer the waves take to travel there—and the older the music you’ll hear.

Guest post by Ryan, reprinted with permission

By Dr. Andy Farnell

I make no secret of the fact that I love old computers, and that I think modern computers have lost their way in terms of providing utility to users. To that end, I write about, and think about, computers and the way to move computers forward, without losing site of the fact that computers should serve their users. I grew up with hand-me-down computers, from Atari to Apple (II GS!) to Dell, and in the process I got to experience a sizable portion of computer history very quickly, in my teen years.

Personal sites are sick as hell, so this site was built so we can all discover each other's. This directory of links are by folks that want to share their site with the world.

A community site for the development of the TextBundle standard

My iPhone 4’s usage stats from July 9, 2010 to October 12, 2011. I used 5.6 GB in 410 days (460 days minus 50 days spent out of the country for work), or about 13.6 MB/day. For comparison, my iPhone 3GS used 3.1 GB

In partnership with IBM, Microsoft is releasing the source code to MS-DOS 4.00 under the MIT license. Learn more.

Ask my kids and they will tell you, I am the party of no. No dessert before you eat your vegetables. No skipping out on 3rd grade to day trade stonks. No feeding your gremlin after midnight. I apply this principle to Groups.io devops as well.

The weblog of Mark Fletcher

Overview Google submitted KML (formerly Keyhole Markup Language) to the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) to be evolved within the OGC consensus process with the following...

A classic Mac loaded with everything you'd want.

Twenty years from now, what will you remember? Last week, a friend of mine found an old MP3 player in her drawer. Upon recovering the contents of the device[1], she synced its music back to her iPod nano, and then she gave it to me. It was full of songs we used to listen to

The Unicode CLDR v45 is now available and has been integrated into version 75 of ICU. The CLDR v45 release page has information on access...

Dive into our comprehensive guide to the best guns in Warzone Mobile, meticulously ranked in our latest tier list. Discover which weapons dominate the battlefield in Warzone Mobile with our expert analysis and detailed rankings.

Interview with Jim Whitehead

It is with a heavy heart that I share this sad news with you. Despite how much we’ve accomplished together, we will be shutting down Post News within the next few weeks. We have done many great things together. We built a toxicity-free community, a platform where Publishers engage

The story of the web is a story about freedom. It's a story about information, about breaking down barriers, about creating new ways for people to communicat...