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🚨 Breaking news! It turns out that shell exclamation marks are NOT meant for yelling—shocking, I know! Apparently, there's a whole covert operation from the 70s to make keyboards obsolete by forcing developers to actually type. 🧙♂️ But hey, go ahead and scream into the void of your shell if it makes you feel better!
https://refp.se/articles/your-shell-and-the-lazy-exclamation-mark #BreakingNews #Shells #CodingHistory #KeyboardObsolescence #DeveloperHumor #HackerNews #ngated -
🚨 Breaking news! It turns out that shell exclamation marks are NOT meant for yelling—shocking, I know! Apparently, there's a whole covert operation from the 70s to make keyboards obsolete by forcing developers to actually type. 🧙♂️ But hey, go ahead and scream into the void of your shell if it makes you feel better!
https://refp.se/articles/your-shell-and-the-lazy-exclamation-mark #BreakingNews #Shells #CodingHistory #KeyboardObsolescence #DeveloperHumor #HackerNews #ngated -
The Great Tanenbaum–Torvalds Flame War (1992)
In early 1992, a well respected computer science professor named Andrew Tanenbaum posted a message on Usenet with the title "Linux is obsolete." At the time, Tanenbaum was known for creating Minix, a small Unix like operating system used in universities. He argued that Linux was a step backward because it used a monolithic kernel design instead of a microkernel. He believed monolithic kernels were outdated and that Linux would never be relevant on modern hardware.
Linus Torvalds, who was only 21 years old and still a student in Finland, did not stay quiet. He replied directly in the same thread and defended his design choices. Linus explained that he built Linux to be practical and useful on the hardware people actually had, rather than following academic ideals. His response was respectful but firm, and he pushed back against Tanenbaum’s criticisms point by point.
What started as a technical disagreement quickly turned into one of the most famous public debates in computing history. The argument played out openly on Usenet in front of thousands of readers. Tanenbaum was seen as the established expert, while Linus was just a young developer working on a hobby project. Many people at the time agreed with Tanenbaum and thought Linux had little future.
Decades later, the outcome looks very different. Linux became the foundation of modern computing, powering servers, smartphones through Android, supercomputers, and embedded systems around the world. Minix, once considered the more advanced academic system, is now mostly remembered because of this debate.
The flame war did more than create drama. It helped spread early awareness of Linux and showed that a determined student could challenge established ideas and build something that lasted.
#Linux #LinusTorvalds #OpenSource #OpenSourceHistory #CodingHistory #DevLife
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Ah, the E.W. Dijkstra Archive! 📚 Where you can spend countless hours scrolling through indecipherable manuscripts just to convince yourself you're becoming a better coder. 🤓 Because who doesn't want to sift through the 00xx of computing history just to feel like a true academic, right? 🙄
https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/welcome.html #EWDijkstraArchive #CodingHistory #ProgrammerLife #TechEducation #AcademicPursuits #HackerNews #ngated -
Ah, the E.W. Dijkstra Archive! 📚 Where you can spend countless hours scrolling through indecipherable manuscripts just to convince yourself you're becoming a better coder. 🤓 Because who doesn't want to sift through the 00xx of computing history just to feel like a true academic, right? 🙄
https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/welcome.html #EWDijkstraArchive #CodingHistory #ProgrammerLife #TechEducation #AcademicPursuits #HackerNews #ngated -
FYI: QBasic Nostalgia: Remembering the 90s Programming Era #shorts: Remember QBasic? It came bundled with Windows, making coding accessible. But Microsoft stopped evolving Visual Basic, leaving simple coding in the past. Now, DOSBox emulators are needed to relive those early programming days. #QBasic #Windows #VisualBasic #DOSBox #CodingHistory https://www.youtube.com/shorts/BL_APGGJA9g
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FYI: QBasic Nostalgia: Remembering the 90s Programming Era #shorts: Remember QBasic? It came bundled with Windows, making coding accessible. But Microsoft stopped evolving Visual Basic, leaving simple coding in the past. Now, DOSBox emulators are needed to relive those early programming days. #QBasic #Windows #VisualBasic #DOSBox #CodingHistory https://www.youtube.com/shorts/BL_APGGJA9g
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FYI: QBasic Nostalgia: Remembering the 90s Programming Era #shorts: Remember QBasic? It came bundled with Windows, making coding accessible. But Microsoft stopped evolving Visual Basic, leaving simple coding in the past. Now, DOSBox emulators are needed to relive those early programming days. #QBasic #Windows #VisualBasic #DOSBox #CodingHistory https://www.youtube.com/shorts/BL_APGGJA9g
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FYI: QBasic Nostalgia: Remembering the 90s Programming Era #shorts: Remember QBasic? It came bundled with Windows, making coding accessible. But Microsoft stopped evolving Visual Basic, leaving simple coding in the past. Now, DOSBox emulators are needed to relive those early programming days. #QBasic #Windows #VisualBasic #DOSBox #CodingHistory https://www.youtube.com/shorts/BL_APGGJA9g
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ICYMI: QBasic Nostalgia: Remembering the 90s Programming Era #shorts: Remember QBasic? It came bundled with Windows, making coding accessible. But Microsoft stopped evolving Visual Basic, leaving simple coding in the past. Now, DOSBox emulators are needed to relive those early programming days. #QBasic #Windows #VisualBasic #DOSBox #CodingHistory https://www.youtube.com/shorts/BL_APGGJA9g
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ICYMI: QBasic Nostalgia: Remembering the 90s Programming Era #shorts: Remember QBasic? It came bundled with Windows, making coding accessible. But Microsoft stopped evolving Visual Basic, leaving simple coding in the past. Now, DOSBox emulators are needed to relive those early programming days. #QBasic #Windows #VisualBasic #DOSBox #CodingHistory https://www.youtube.com/shorts/BL_APGGJA9g
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ICYMI: QBasic Nostalgia: Remembering the 90s Programming Era #shorts: Remember QBasic? It came bundled with Windows, making coding accessible. But Microsoft stopped evolving Visual Basic, leaving simple coding in the past. Now, DOSBox emulators are needed to relive those early programming days. #QBasic #Windows #VisualBasic #DOSBox #CodingHistory https://www.youtube.com/shorts/BL_APGGJA9g
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ICYMI: QBasic Nostalgia: Remembering the 90s Programming Era #shorts: Remember QBasic? It came bundled with Windows, making coding accessible. But Microsoft stopped evolving Visual Basic, leaving simple coding in the past. Now, DOSBox emulators are needed to relive those early programming days. #QBasic #Windows #VisualBasic #DOSBox #CodingHistory https://www.youtube.com/shorts/BL_APGGJA9g
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QBasic Nostalgia: Remembering the 90s Programming Era #shorts: Remember QBasic? It came bundled with Windows, making coding accessible. But Microsoft stopped evolving Visual Basic, leaving simple coding in the past. Now, DOSBox emulators are needed to relive those early programming days. #QBasic #Windows #VisualBasic #DOSBox #CodingHistory https://www.youtube.com/shorts/BL_APGGJA9g
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QBasic Nostalgia: Remembering the 90s Programming Era #shorts: Remember QBasic? It came bundled with Windows, making coding accessible. But Microsoft stopped evolving Visual Basic, leaving simple coding in the past. Now, DOSBox emulators are needed to relive those early programming days. #QBasic #Windows #VisualBasic #DOSBox #CodingHistory https://www.youtube.com/shorts/BL_APGGJA9g
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QBasic Nostalgia: Remembering the 90s Programming Era #shorts: Remember QBasic? It came bundled with Windows, making coding accessible. But Microsoft stopped evolving Visual Basic, leaving simple coding in the past. Now, DOSBox emulators are needed to relive those early programming days. #QBasic #Windows #VisualBasic #DOSBox #CodingHistory https://www.youtube.com/shorts/BL_APGGJA9g
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QBasic Nostalgia: Remembering the 90s Programming Era #shorts: Remember QBasic? It came bundled with Windows, making coding accessible. But Microsoft stopped evolving Visual Basic, leaving simple coding in the past. Now, DOSBox emulators are needed to relive those early programming days. #QBasic #Windows #VisualBasic #DOSBox #CodingHistory https://www.youtube.com/shorts/BL_APGGJA9g
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Dieter berichtet, in: Oberpfalz @dehypotheses https://oberpfalz.hypotheses.org/215
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Dieter berichtet, in: Oberpfalz @dehypotheses https://oberpfalz.hypotheses.org/215
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Wir hatten Spaß mit #CodingHistory, Berichte folgen. Was schon bleibt sind Interregiowikilinks: technische, persönliche, thematische – Methoden. https://nearby.hypotheses.org/3684
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Wir hatten Spaß mit #CodingHistory, Berichte folgen. Was schon bleibt sind Interregiowikilinks: technische, persönliche, thematische – Methoden. https://nearby.hypotheses.org/3684
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Methodentransfer: #DieGartenlaube im Stadtwiki Meißen (Q655617#P13584) https://stadtwiki-meissen.de/wiki/Die_Gartenlaube
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Methodentransfer: #DieGartenlaube im Stadtwiki Meißen (Q655617#P13584) https://stadtwiki-meissen.de/wiki/Die_Gartenlaube
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@stadtwirtschaft Moin. 💡 Wir könnten ein Austauschformat etablieren: #CodingSulzbach [[ i.w.S. ]] und angelehnt an #DatenlaubeJam, z.B. 1x mtl. mit bspw. OberPfalzWiki, Stadtarchiv-Menschen et al.!? als virtuelle Fortsetzung von #CodingHistory bis zur nächsten Tagung ebenda. https://www.oberpfalzwiki.de/w/index.php?title=Coding_Sulzbach&action=edit&redlink=1
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@stadtwirtschaft Moin. 💡 Wir könnten ein Austauschformat etablieren: #CodingSulzbach [[ i.w.S. ]] und angelehnt an #DatenlaubeJam, z.B. 1x mtl. mit bspw. OberPfalzWiki, Stadtarchiv-Menschen et al.!? als virtuelle Fortsetzung von #CodingHistory bis zur nächsten Tagung ebenda. https://www.oberpfalzwiki.de/w/index.php?title=Coding_Sulzbach&action=edit&redlink=1
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@stadtwirtschaft 1848 gibts hier https://digipress.digitale-sammlungen.de/calendar/1851/newspaper/bsbmult00000494 schon mal nicht für Transkri🍺ende. Aber im Stadtarchiv ebenda, Amberg und München. https://zdb-katalog.de/title.xhtml?idn=019554842&view=full&tab=1#1848-1848;DE-54;DE-483;DE-12;DE-19;DE-N27;DE-Srb1
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@stadtwirtschaft 1848 gibts hier https://digipress.digitale-sammlungen.de/calendar/1851/newspaper/bsbmult00000494 schon mal nicht für Transkri🍺ende. Aber im Stadtarchiv ebenda, Amberg und München. https://zdb-katalog.de/title.xhtml?idn=019554842&view=full&tab=1#1848-1848;DE-54;DE-483;DE-12;DE-19;DE-N27;DE-Srb1
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So schnell gehen drei Tage voll intensivem Austausch rund um #CodingHistory zuende. Vielen Dank an alle Teilnehmer*innen fürs Kommen!
Und vielen Dank natürlich auch an die Stadt #SulzbachRosenberg für die wie immer wunderbare Kooperation! -
So schnell gehen drei Tage voll intensivem Austausch rund um #CodingHistory zuende. Vielen Dank an alle Teilnehmer*innen fürs Kommen!
Und vielen Dank natürlich auch an die Stadt #SulzbachRosenberg für die wie immer wunderbare Kooperation! -
Unsere Abschlussdiskussion leitet nun Marcus Mühlnikel vom Institut für Fränkische Landesgeschichte in Thurnau. #CodingHistory.
Wir sind schon gespannt, welche Thesen unseren Teilnehmenden auf der Zunge liegen. -
Unsere Abschlussdiskussion leitet nun Marcus Mühlnikel vom Institut für Fränkische Landesgeschichte in Thurnau. #CodingHistory.
Wir sind schon gespannt, welche Thesen unseren Teilnehmenden auf der Zunge liegen. -
Mit Katrin Moeller von der Uni #HalleSaale startet der nächste Vortrag bei #CodingHistory. Sie berichtet über Informationsanreicherungen mit Hilfe von historischen Adressbüchern und die zugrundeliegenden Taxonomien.
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Mit Katrin Moeller von der Uni #HalleSaale startet der nächste Vortrag bei #CodingHistory. Sie berichtet über Informationsanreicherungen mit Hilfe von historischen Adressbüchern und die zugrundeliegenden Taxonomien.
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Die Tagung #CodingHistory startet in ihren dritten Tag. Dieses Mal bekommen wir einen Einblick in digitale Projekte in Museen, den Michaela Stauber präsentiert das Projekt hand.gemacht auf dem #Freilandmuseum #Oberpfalz
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Die Tagung #CodingHistory startet in ihren dritten Tag. Dieses Mal bekommen wir einen Einblick in digitale Projekte in Museen, den Michaela Stauber präsentiert das Projekt hand.gemacht auf dem #Freilandmuseum #Oberpfalz
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Täglich grüßt das Editier. @ Amtsgericht #SulzbachRosenberg. Moin.
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Täglich grüßt das Editier. @ Amtsgericht #SulzbachRosenberg. Moin.
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Den Abschluss des Tages bietet uns Clemens Beck mit einer Vorstellung des Projektes HisQu.
#CodingHistory #SulzbachRosenberg -
Den Abschluss des Tages bietet uns Clemens Beck mit einer Vorstellung des Projektes HisQu.
#CodingHistory #SulzbachRosenberg -
Es bleibt räumlich. @m_munke ( @slubdresden ) spricht über die Datenanreicherung bei historischen Karten am Beispiel des virtuellen Kartenforums.
#CodingHistory #SulzbachRosenberg
