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44 stories and discussions about historical, aggregated from every source we track.

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Adventures in vintage computers and retrogaming. Includes articles on classic games and obsolete computers.

50 points•inactive-user•over 1 year ago•17 comments
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A weird historical mystery/logic puzzle based in Tucson Arizona. Very complex. Very frustrating.

44 points•Eridanus2•11 days ago•11 comments•
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43 points•jmmv•over 3 years ago•23 comments
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Veronika Megler just wanted a part-time job while she finished her college degree. She didn't realize it would end with her writing one of the first computer game blockbusters.

32 points•calvin•over 5 years ago•1 comment
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or: a reminder that we don’t actually understand how the brain works

20 points•evnm•7 days ago•5 comments
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<p>Video going into the rough history of why the desktop GUI's ubiquity is what it is.</p>

18 points•herabit•10 days ago•4 comments
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16 points•lorddimwit•over 3 years ago•1 comment
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I&#039;ve got a real treat for you pathological programming fans! Today, we&#039;re going to take a quick look at the worlds most *useful* pathological programming language: TECO. TECO is one of the most influential…

15 points•C-Keen•over 9 years ago•4 comments
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11 points•hwayne•almost 6 years ago•4 comments
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Slides from Apple's 1990 Worldwide Developers Conference

11 points•idrougge•over 6 years ago•0 comments
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True Colour (16 million colours) support in various terminal applications and terminals - TrueColour.md

9 points•zge•over 6 years ago•0 comments
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8 points•majjoha•about 10 years ago•2 comments
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SPITBOL 360 is an implementation of the SNOBOL4 programming language for use on IBM 360 compatible computers. SPITBOL 360 was the first true compiler for SNOBOL4 and is an incredibly clever work of...

5 points•lorddimwit•almost 3 years ago•1 comment
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<p>An interesting look at the historical interaction of science, logic, and the limits of our knowledge.</p>

5 points•jasontbradshaw•over 10 years ago•3 comments
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4 points•pmc•almost 3 years ago•0 comments
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Welcome to Python Infrastructure's home for real-time and historical data on system performance.

3 points•jpopesculian•8 days ago•0 comments•
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We use long-run census data to understand the scale of recent US migration trends, and how these compare to previous centuries.

3 points•xnx•9 days ago•0 comments•
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3 points•wally•over 9 years ago•0 comments
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<p>From 1984, an interesting OS for local networks of graphical workstations and servers with a network-transparent single-level object store.</p>

2 points•manuel•over 3 years ago•0 comments
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1 points•vitalnodo•1 day ago•0 comments•
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Historical Stock Prices API: Python, JavaScript & cURL Quickstart (FinancialData.Net) - README.md

1 points•_FDN_•1 day ago•0 comments•
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In 1994 Muriel Cooper presented work at the TED5 conference in Monterey, CA that changed the way designers thought of the possibilities of electronic media. The work, from her group at the MIT Medi…

0 points•friendlysock•over 8 years ago•0 comments

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