historical
Cores in space: The core memory module from a 1980 Spacelab computer via @fanf https://lobste.rs/s/mnifuh #hardware #historical
http://www.righto.com/2026/08/spacelab-core-memory.html
Andy Hertzfeld oral history via @binjip978 https://lobste.rs/s/hi2svr #transcript #video #historical #mac #person
https://www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/300000188/
Antiquated HTML Snippets and Artefacts via @fs111 https://lobste.rs/s/bzwyib #historical #web
https://vale.rocks/posts/html-relics
Beware overreliance on metaphor https://lobste.rs/s/vmd3gy #historical #philosophy
https://evnm.substack.com/p/beware-overreliance-on-metaphor
What algorithm did Windows XP use to choose your initial user picture? https://lobste.rs/s/izt4a2 #historical #windows
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20260909-00/?p=112683
Pick OS is a Living Fossil of Computer History https://lobste.rs/s/1skdhv #databases #historical #osdev
https://csixty4.medium.com/pick-is-a-living-fossil-of-computer-history-36d74408d557
The Hibernate Origin Story (Outsider Edition) https://lobste.rs/s/ydmw6s #databases #historical #java
https://fishbowl.pastiche.org/2026/10/23/hibernate-origin-story
Reverse-engineering the vintage Intel 8087's tangent algorithm: more than CORDIC https://lobste.rs/s/5soxba #hardware #historical #reversing
http://www.righto.com/2026/09/8087-tangent-cordic.html
The Graveyard of Good Ideas via @daveliepmann https://lobste.rs/s/6dcgr9 #video #historical
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovlQ81rBc-4
Oldest GUI application that still runs on Windows 11 https://lobste.rs/s/rwubks #historical #windows
https://blog.enlyth.com/posts/oldest-windows-gui-app-win-11/
Extremely brief history of PDP computers https://lobste.rs/s/ldvd3n #hardware #historical
https://entropicthoughts.com/history-of-pdp-computers
Smart audio for the smart home (2021) https://lobste.rs/s/paqtgw #historical
https://computer.rip/2021-11-06-smart-audio-for-the-smart-home.html
The support case of a customer who said that all they could see was a black screen https://lobste.rs/s/soosuu #historical #windows
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20261029-00/?p=112808/
Inside a 1980s filter chip that uses switched capacitors https://lobste.rs/s/mbyawi #hardware #historical #reversing
http://www.righto.com/2026/10/ML10-switched-capacitor-filter.html
A Decade of Kill Bugs https://lobste.rs/s/wgoato #historical #linux #unix
https://alangrow.com/blog/a-decade-of-kill-bugs
A brief history of just-in-time (2003) via @fanf https://lobste.rs/s/h6dt6e #pdf #compilers #historical
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/857076.857077
The Only Intuitive Interface Is The Nipple https://lobste.rs/s/wkhrba #cogsci #historical
https://www.greenend.org.uk/rjk/misc/nipple.html
A history of backdoors (2015) https://lobste.rs/s/x1wkwe #cryptography #historical
https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2015/07/20/a-history-of-backdoors/
Reverse engineering a vintage diode-transistor logic chip https://lobste.rs/s/jqvofw #hardware #historical #reversing
http://www.righto.com/2026/11/signetics-st680a-dtl-nand.html
The people holding up the internet https://lobste.rs/s/lhr4oy #historical #web
https://sheets.works/data-viz/holding-up-the-internet
30 years of Internet transfers with curl via @hugoarnal https://lobste.rs/s/x4kaac #historical
https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2026/11/11/30-years-of-internet-transfers-with-curl/