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
historical
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/
Why is the x86 undefined instruction called ud2? Why 2? https://lobste.rs/s/zbb37v #assembly #historical
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20260910-00/?p=112689
I review The Whitechapel Full Moon Society by Elizabeth DeLozier. I wasn't entirely sold on this Victorian mystery with Jack the Ripper connection.
https://susannashore.blogspot.com/2026/08/the-whitechapel-full-moon-society-by.html
Saturation: How Your Software Will Fail at Scale https://lobste.rs/s/opbpro #video #debugging #historical
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHYCRubnmSM
Energizing a vacuum-tube flip-flop module from a 1948 IBM system https://lobste.rs/s/5pavqs #hardware #historical
http://www.righto.com/2026/07/ibm-604-trigger-tube-module.html
WEBMASTER@ a manifesto for everyone via @vale https://lobste.rs/s/g1rpmg #culture #historical #web
https://brennan.day/webmaster-a-manifesto-for-everyone/
Twenty Years of Pandoc via @eh https://lobste.rs/s/blflqs #haskell #historical
https://pandoc.org/twenty-years-of-pandoc.html
AppleWorks on the Apple II via @davepagurek https://lobste.rs/s/gk7fpf #historical #retrocomputing
https://stonetools.ghost.io/appleworks-apple2/
IBM Built the Cold War’s Most Powerful Code Breaker for the NSA via @fanf https://lobste.rs/s/pwofca #cryptography #historical
https://spectrum.ieee.org/cold-war-codebreaker-nsa-ibm
Quake Shareware, a CD-ROM just a little too full https://lobste.rs/s/j5xjf2 #games #historical #reversing
https://fabiensanglard.net/quake_shareware_cd/index.html
On building scalable control planes https://lobste.rs/s/zubbzq #distributed #historical
https://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2026/08/on-building-scalable-control-planes.html
alt.time-capsule.reopened https://lobste.rs/s/w084xl #culture #historical
https://tedium.co/2026/09/14/usenet-rewind-archive-revival-website
The Cuckoo's Egg (book) - Wikipedia https://lobste.rs/s/nicozi #historical
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cuckoo%27s_Egg_(book)
Genera for the Initiated: Inside Symbolics Lisp Machines https://lobste.rs/s/staj2z #video #historical #lisp #retrocomputing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2fGKjFoaOg
Japan tried to build an operating system for the entire world, then the US government intervened via @lproven https://lobste.rs/s/mfo0fd #historical #osdev #retrocomputing
https://www.xda-developers.com/japan-tried-build-operating-system-entire-world-us-government-intervened/
50 years of proof assistants https://lobste.rs/s/6gelfg #historical #math #plt
https://lawrencecpaulson.github.io/2025/12/05/History_of_Proof_Assistants.html
Casey Muratori – The Root of The Root of All Evil – BSC 2026 https://lobste.rs/s/p8exgy #video #historical #programming #retrocomputing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpj6r6CjJf8
📚 The Reformatory by: Tananarive Due
Gracetown, Florida
June 1950
Twelve-year-old Robbie Stephens, Jr., is sentenced to six months at the Gracetown School for Boys, a reformatory, for kicking the son of the largest landowner in town in defense of his older sister, Gloria. So begins Robbie’s journey further into the ...
https://bookblabla.com/book/the-reformatory
#books #reading #libraries #fiction #horror #generalfiction #historicalfiction #historical
The Bikeshed email — PHKs Bikeshed https://lobste.rs/s/9myagn #freebsd #historical
https://phk.freebsd.dk/sagas/bikeshed/
Interview: Doug McIlroy via @fs111 https://lobste.rs/s/hett40 #historical #person #unix
https://tmpout.sh/5/2.html
Why do computers look like this anyway? https://lobste.rs/s/8gy9fa #video #design #historical #mac
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpIuNUn0PZc
why java class files start with 0xCAFEBABE https://lobste.rs/s/stczr0 #historical #java
https://radio-weblogs.com/0100490/2003/01/28.html