Dear Fediverse! Being German, I'm quite familiar with German computer magazines. But not with the UK and US world. What were the “professional level” computer magazines in ca. 1980-2010 which wrote about enterprise IT, Unix, supercomputers, hardware? I'm NOT (yet) interested in software engineering or programming languages and also not very much in Linux.
I already know BYTE magazine, Unix Review and several 8bit related magazines. What else? #vintagecomputing #retrocomputing #techhistory
Friday at the @internetarchive: a special screening of SEEKING MAVIS BEACON. The documentary investigates the disappearance & legacy of one of the most iconic faces in tech history.
Aug. 8
6:00 PM doors open
300 Funston Ave, SF
https://blog.archive.org/event/screening-seeking-mavis-beacon-documentary/
After the screening, stay for a Q&A & "preserve-a-thon" to learn how to upload items to the Internet Archive, so bring a laptop! 
Matterport walkthrough of the original Microsoft Building 3
The Curious Case of the Unix workstation layout
What the Internet Was Like in 1998
CP/M Creator Gary Kildall's Memoirs Released as Free Download
https://spectrum.ieee.org/cpm-creator-gary-kildalls-memoirs-released-as-free-download
“20 Years at the Edge of Tech and Audio” — Matt Levine interviews podcast pioneer Leo Laporte on the birth of podcasting, the rise of tech media networks and more. Listen here: https://www.theanycast.com/20-years-at-the-edge-of-tech-and-audio-with-leo-laporte/ #Podcasting #TechHistory
It took 45 years, but spreadsheet legend Mitch Kapor finally got his MIT degree
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2025/06/24/business/mitch-kapor-mit-degree-bill-aulet/
Congratulations to Ricardo Noronha, PI of the project '#PETROSINES — Peripheral Petromodernity. A Global Microhistory of the Sines Area Project (1971-1999)', one of only six History projects selected for funfing by FCT on its latest call.
We tell you more here: https://ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/ricardo-noronha-petromodernidade/
Notes on the history of the “map tile” by Ingrid Burrington:
https://placing.technology/notes-on-the-history-of-the-map-tile
Swedish Campground: "There are too many Apples on the screen!" (1983)
https://www.folklore.org/Swedish_Campground.html
#HackerNews #SwedishCampground #Apples #1983 #TechHistory #RetroComputing #Folklore
Nicola Pellow: The Quiet Hero of the Web
At 21, while still a student, she built the first cross-platform browser, letting the web go global. Then she disappeared.
Who remembers her today? Almost no one.
I wrote my longest post since 2016 to honour her and the quiet women who shaped tech.
Celebrating FreeBSD Day with a look back at the story behind our iconic BSD Daemon, Beastie!
Dr. Marshall Kirk McKusick walks us through how this legendary figure got its name, debunks the "demon" myth, and brings BSD culture to life with humor, history, and culture gems.
Watch the full video on our YouTube channel: https://youtu.be/bKAp9Wremd0?si=_7QylTMDku8WyXFr
Just discovered a second podcast called Decentered (the name of the @wedistribute podcast). Listening to their fantastic interview with @rabble from Nos.social. Where he talks a lot less about the history of Titter, and a lot more about the history of Indymedia, and his more recent work with decentralised social media;
https://decentered.co.uk/building-participatory-media-with-evan-henshaw-plath-aka-rabble/
#podcasts #Decentered #TechHistory #Indymedia #IndependentMedia #decentralisation
Dear Computer History people: I'm searching for books covering the history of the MIT Media Lab.The only one I found so far is "The Media Lab" by Stewart Brand, released in 1988. So a bit dated. Are you aware of other titles, which also cover the time AFTER 1988? It might be titles on other subjects but with a significant amount on the MIT Media Lab.
Edit: There is some material on their website as well: https://www.media.mit.edu/about/history/
Every time you see those "marching ants" around a selection or click a rounded rectangle button, you're using Bill Atkinson's innovations. The pioneering Apple developer (employee #51!) who gave us MacPaint, HyperCard, and much of our modern GUI has passed at 74. His code still shapes our digital world. 
#TechHistory
Some of you probably remember WAIS. An Internet search engine from the Gopher era (more specific: a search protocol). TIL: Thinking Machines (those with the massive red blinkenlights servers) were the main driver and developer of WAIS: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wide_area_information_server #vintagecomputing #techhistory #wais #thinkingmachines #connectionmachine
If history repeats, we should compare the AI bubble with the dot-com bubble.
“AI-powered” is the new “.com.” Startups are pitching thin wrappers — and this time, many don’t even pretend to own the tech they’re built on.
Look closer, and it’s a house of cards:
Wrappers rely on OpenAI
OpenAI relies on Microsoft
Microsoft needs NVIDIA
NVIDIA owns the chips that power it all
#AI #Bubble #TechHistory #DotCom #StartupCulture #PlatformDependency #DigitalInfrastructure
https://skooloflife.medium.com/99-of-ai-startups-will-be-dead-by-2026-heres-why-bfc974edd968
