Show your hands honor for the strange power they bring you https://lobste.rs/s/ukxhyz #design #historical
https://aresluna.org/show-your-hands-honor/
historical
Gnutella: A Protocol Outlives the World That Created It https://lobste.rs/s/ptvaan #distributed #historical #networking
https://rickcarlino.com/notes/p2p/gnutella-explanation.html
Exploring the Japanese XD FirstClass Network BBS https://lobste.rs/s/uroflh #historical #retrocomputing
https://cdrom.ca/games/2026/05/30/xd.html
How Rockstar fit an entire city into PlayStation 2 memory via @tjammer https://lobste.rs/s/i6pafc #video #games #graphics #historical
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIbCxbrBCys
The Most Emacs Bzr Saga via @confusedalex https://lobste.rs/s/jgmrz0 #emacs #historical #vcs
https://thanosapollo.org/posts/bzr-saga/
The Age of the Amplifier via @fanf https://lobste.rs/s/dcq4nh #hardware #historical #science
https://www.construction-physics.com/p/the-age-of-the-amplifier
Microcode inside the Intel 8087 floating-point chip: register exchange https://lobste.rs/s/b1yg8b #hardware #historical #reversing
http://www.righto.com/2026/05/microcode-inside-intel-8087-floating.html
Borg, Omega, and Kubernetes - Lessons learned from three container-management systems over a decade (2016) https://lobste.rs/s/whtno3 #distributed #historical
https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2898444
Timesharing on the MIT Weather Radar PDP-8/IX via @pesco https://lobste.rs/s/uxjaw5 #historical #osdev
https://retrocomputingforum.com/t/timesharing-on-the-mit-weather-radar-pdp-8-ix/5569
The curious history the invention of the CMD+K quick switcher https://lobste.rs/s/zszeab #historical #web
https://ux.stackexchange.com/questions/153299/how-did-cmd-k-come-to-be-the-standard-shortcut-for-both-adding-a-hyperlink-and-o
📚 Rabbit Cake by: Annie Hartnett
Elvis Babbitt has a head for the facts: she knows science proves yellow is the happiest color, she knows a healthy male giraffe weighs about 3,000 pounds, and she knows that the naked mole rat is the longest living rodent. She knows she should plan to grieve her mother, who has recently drown...
https://bookblabla.com/book/rabbit-cake
#books #reading #libraries #fiction #generalfiction #historical #humorous #literaryfiction
Munich 1991: the Roots of the Current AI Boom https://lobste.rs/s/n1xvd7 #ai #historical
https://people.idsia.ch/~juergen/ai-boom-roots-munich-1991.html
Amiga August 2026 Update https://lobste.rs/s/lmnmwg #historical #osdev
https://amiga.com/news/20260804-amiga-update
In memory of the man who put red and green squiggles under words https://lobste.rs/s/wnlece #historical
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20260622-00/?p=112451
Matt’s Script Archive: The Scripts That Reshaped The Web https://lobste.rs/s/mvjcxs #historical #perl #web
https://tedium.co/2026/06/22/matts-script-archive-retrospective/
It’s Only When You Look Back https://lobste.rs/s/f2ixyf #historical
https://www.markround.com/blog/2026/06/17/25-its-only-when-you-look-back/
AOL was down (1996) https://lobste.rs/s/0qfxpj #historical
https://ngrok.com/blog/aol-was-down-1996
The Axis That Made the Chips https://lobste.rs/s/xauaay #historical
https://hoeijmakers.net/the-axis-that-made-the-chips/
Microspeak elaborated: Isn't escrow just a release candidate by another name? https://lobste.rs/s/qczicy #historical #practices
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20260623-00/?p=112462
How did software get so reliable without proof? (1996) https://lobste.rs/s/u9rwxj #pdf #historical #practices
https://6826.csail.mit.edu/2020/papers/noproof.pdf
How early SunOS did diskless workstations before NFS via @rk https://lobste.rs/s/abza3v #historical #unix
https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/solaris/SunOSDisklessWithoutNFS
HyperCard on the Macintosh https://lobste.rs/s/osjghb #historical #mac
https://stonetools.ghost.io/hypercard-mac/