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A Decade of Kill Bugs

30 years of Internet transfers with curl

The lost malloc()

A history of backdoors (2015)

“From digital mischief to outright destruction”

86open

Reverse engineering a vintage diode-transistor logic chip

Contract: Digital Archivist, Historical Systems

A brief history of just-in-time: forty years of JIT work, from 1960–2000

The people holding up the internet

Emacs Turns 50

Brief History of PDP Computers

Lotus Improv on the NeXT

Oldest GUI application that still runs on Windows 11

Smart audio for the smart home (2021)

The support case of a customer who said that all they could see was a black screen

Where did WIN32_LEAN_AND_MEAN come from? (2009)

A 1980s filter chip that uses switched capacitors

The Hibernate Origin Story (Outsider Edition)

The Ferranti files: 40 years of Sinclair secrets unearthed

Genera for the Initiated: Inside Symbolics Lisp Machines

Historical Scientific Instruments

Historical Telecommunications

Limited Liability In Historical Perspective (1997) [pdf]

A 40-year study of Swiss protective forests found declining stands increased across elevation zones, with drought-related losses now reaching forests up to 2,200 meters as warming erodes the historical protection from drought provided by higher elevations.

Why 0xCAFEBABE?

What Sun got wrong

"The only intuitive interface is the nipple" (2012)

Some (mostly historical) issues with the Unix load average

A brief history of the Bloomberg terminal

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