The Card That Made the Apple II Serious https://lobste.rs/s/ymxijt #hardware #historical
https://www.wiseowl.com/articles/a2fpga-videx-01-the-card-that-made-the-apple-ii-serious/
historical
More dirty coding tricks from game developers (2015) https://lobste.rs/s/oty27j #games #historical
https://www.gamedeveloper.com/design/more-dirty-coding-tricks-from-game-developers
What Yahoo killed when it bought Maktoob https://lobste.rs/s/pfffbz #compsci #historical
https://lr0.org/blog/p/yahoo/
Arcan: 10 Years of Online Obscurity https://lobste.rs/s/cssoxa #historical #osdev
https://arcan-fe.com/2026/06/02/arcan-10-years-of-online-obscurity/
The Internet I Grew Up With Doesn’t Exist Anymore https://lobste.rs/s/pth2bm #historical #web
https://cleberg.net/blog/internet.html
Web Browsers on Video Game Consoles https://lobste.rs/s/fp6pal #browsers #historical
https://vale.rocks/posts/game-console-browsers
Those old modem upgrades https://lobste.rs/s/3vtdfz #historical #networking
https://sals.place/blog/those-old-modem-upgrades/
The mystery of the Solar Realms Elite title screen via @rk https://lobste.rs/s/kgpqam #games #historical
https://breakintochat.com/blog/2026/06/14/the-mystery-of-the-solar-realms-elite-title-screen/
The time the x86 emulator team found code so bad that they fixed it during emulation https://lobste.rs/s/mjkp4m #historical #windows
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20260615-00/?p=112419
Jurassic Park computers in excruciating detail https://lobste.rs/s/xv8dix #historical
https://fabiensanglard.net/jurrasic_park_computers/index.html
The computer at the bottom of a canal https://lobste.rs/s/0mljfd #historical
https://negroniventurestudios.com/2026/07/18/the-computer-at-the-bottom-of-a-canal/
AT&T's very rare Security-Plus Telephone https://lobste.rs/s/fw8e40 #cryptography #historical #security
https://www.electrospaces.net/2025/10/an-interesting-advertisement-for-stu.html
A technical career retrospective part 1 (January - June 1978) https://lobste.rs/s/bmqwm2 #historical #programming
https://kenwhitesell.github.io/2026/07/10/A-technical-career-retrospective-pt-1.html
a bunch of stuff i used to not know about K&R C via @RunxiYu https://lobste.rs/s/qrtxzl #c #historical
https://sebsite.pw/w/20260712-kandr.html
The Early Days: A History of Interactive Computing https://lobste.rs/s/tvfhvm #historical #retrocomputing
https://obsolescence.dev/interactive-computing-history.html
The legend of the Novell NE2000 via @fanf https://lobste.rs/s/ygwqsm #video #historical #networking
https://youtu.be/nNXzQ7V1S_k
Odd Comments and Strange Doings in Unix https://lobste.rs/s/csc385 #historical #unix
https://9p.io/who/dmr/odd.html
Fascinating history of transit-free tier 1 networks https://lobste.rs/s/fuf5ls #historical #networking
https://anuragbhatia.com/post/2026/08/history-of-transit-free-networks/
RangeFrom, Part 1․․ https://lobste.rs/s/xgnakx #historical #rust
https://erk.dev/2026/08/12/rangefrom-part-1
Some (mostly historical) issues with the Unix load average via @binjip978 https://lobste.rs/s/26liff #historical #unix
https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/unix/LoadAverageHistoricalIssues
History of John Backus's FP languages https://lobste.rs/s/dmuqxg #historical
https://softwarepreservation.computerhistory.org/FP/
The Computer That Helped Win World War II: Colossus cracked Germany’s encrypted communications via @fanf https://lobste.rs/s/u821ri #historical
https://spectrum.ieee.org/colossus-computer-ieee-milestone
Advantages and disadvantages of Windows NT 3.1 https://lobste.rs/s/pngdot #historical #windows
https://dfarq.homeip.net/advantages-and-disadvantages-of-windows-nt-3-1/