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  1. Eliza Bot Running and ready for your retro psycological problems
    Toot me a Hello to start
    #RetoComputing #Eliza #ComputerHistory

  2. "Now, you've gotta remember this was the 1990s. This was before the Always On Internet that we imagine today.

    "The Internet was something that you had to sign into, use briefly, and then disconnect so that your mom could make phone calls."

    youtube.com/watch?v=VDQTuJWST4M

    #InternetProtocols #ComputerHistory #AIM

  3. "Now, you've gotta remember this was the 1990s. This was before the Always On Internet that we imagine today.

    "The Internet was something that you had to sign into, use briefly, and then disconnect so that your mom could make phone calls."

    youtube.com/watch?v=VDQTuJWST4M

    #InternetProtocols #ComputerHistory #AIM

  4. Eliza Bot Running and ready for your retro psycological problems
    Toot me a Hello to start
    #RetoComputing #Eliza #ComputerHistory

  5. Eliza Bot Running and ready for your retro psycological problems
    Toot me a Hello to start
    #RetoComputing #Eliza #ComputerHistory

  6. Eliza Bot Running and ready for your retro psycological problems
    Toot me a Hello to start
    #RetoComputing #Eliza #ComputerHistory

  7. Eliza Bot Running and ready for your retro psycological problems
    Toot me a Hello to start
    #RetoComputing #Eliza #ComputerHistory

  8. Eliza Bot Running and ready for your retro psycological problems
    Toot me a Hello to start
    #RetoComputing #Eliza #ComputerHistory

  9. Two books were formative for me in my early teens: Hackers by Steven Levy and The Soul of a New Machine by Tracy Kidder. I remember enjoying the latter a great deal, but Hackers was the one that had the bigger impact at the time in terms of scope.

    I just finished the audiobook reading of Soul a moment ago and I have to say that it has been utterly transfixing. My perspective is so different now perhaps 40 years later.

    And wow is that book prescient!

    #books #computerhistory #retrocomputing

  10. Two books were formative for me in my early teens: Hackers by Steven Levy and The Soul of a New Machine by Tracy Kidder. I remember enjoying the latter a great deal, but Hackers was the one that had the bigger impact at the time in terms of scope.

    I just finished the audiobook reading of Soul a moment ago and I have to say that it has been utterly transfixing. My perspective is so different now perhaps 40 years later.

    And wow is that book prescient!

    #books #computerhistory #retrocomputing

  11. Eliza Bot Running and ready for your retro psycological problems
    Toot me a Hello to start
    #RetoComputing #Eliza #ComputerHistory

  12. Eliza Bot Running and ready for your retro psycological problems
    Toot me a Hello to start
    #RetoComputing #Eliza #ComputerHistory

  13. Eliza Bot Running and ready for your retro psycological problems
    Toot me a Hello to start
    #RetoComputing #Eliza #ComputerHistory

  14. Eliza Bot Running and ready for your retro psycological problems
    Toot me a Hello to start
    #RetoComputing #Eliza #ComputerHistory

  15. Kent Pitman #tech Historic Document Release, screwlisp's new CLIM #Lisp #zine, #mathematics and #climate w/ Ramin Honary

    toobnix.org/w/1z43HJ2YboZUuE2U

  16. Today is Konrad Zuse’s birthday, a lesser known computer pioneer (unless you live in East Germany). If you’re ever in the Dresden area, the Zuse Computer Museum in Hoyerswerda is really neat. #ComputerHistory #KonradZuse #Deutschland #Travel

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konrad_Z

  17. Today is Konrad Zuse’s birthday, a lesser known computer pioneer (unless you live in East Germany). If you’re ever in the Dresden area, the Zuse Computer Museum in Hoyerswerda is really neat. #ComputerHistory #KonradZuse #Deutschland #Travel

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konrad_Z

  18. Eliza Bot Running and ready for your retro psycological problems
    Toot me a Hello to start
    #RetoComputing #Eliza #ComputerHistory

  19. Eliza Bot Running and ready for your retro psycological problems
    Toot me a Hello to start
    #RetoComputing #Eliza #ComputerHistory

  20. TIL that »The Mother of All Demos« has an <strike>elder</strike> little sister. Doug #Engelbart and team have performed a taped NLS/Augment demo on Oct 1, 1969 as well!
    I put the 3 segments on my log at mprove.de/visionreality/index.

    #computerhistory

  21. TIL that »The Mother of All Demos« has an elder sister. Doug #Engelbart and team have performed a NLS/Augment demo on Oct 1, 1969 already!
    I put the 3 segments on my log at mprove.de/visionreality/index.

    #computerhistory

  22. Eliza Bot Running and ready for your retro psycological problems
    Toot me a Hello to start
    #RetoComputing #Eliza #ComputerHistory

  23. @zrzz @xvw My timeline of editors:

    <1980: variety of editors on IBM mainframes and DEC mini-computers (and I guess that punching cards counts as an editor 🫣).

    1980: vi on Unix v7 on a PDP-11/70 and subsequently on BSD Unix on Vax 11/780 and a few new desktop Unix workstations; what a revelation!

    1984: Emacs (**finally**) on BSD Unix on a Vax 11/780; Emacs was built without IT department permission by a friend and he often gave it very strange names to avoid detection by IT (due to the "eight megabytes and constantly swapping" 😉). Wrote my first elisp custom code!

    mid 1980s through to mid 1990s: Emacs and vi on Sun workstations and then on Linux (since 0.99pl12) on PCs.

    1996 to mid 2000s: dabbled with variety of Java editors such as Eclipse but always came back to Emacs.

    mid 2000s to now: no more dabbling, sticking to Emacs mostly with vi(m) for some tasks and both obviously on Linux.

    #Emacs #TextEditors #ComputerHistory

  24. Eliza Bot Running and ready for your retro psycological problems
    Toot me a Hello to start
    #RetoComputing #Eliza #ComputerHistory

  25. Reading Steve Jobs in Exile — The Untold Story of NeXT and the Remaking of an American Visionary by Geoffrey Cain.

    Just started chapter 25, which begins in August 1996. Apple CEO Gil Amelio is struggling with what to do with Copland, their latest OS in development.

    Found a bit of an anachronism:

    “But without a modern OS, Apple users were left stuck in the dark ages, facing the spinning beach ball of death every time an application froze.“

    #Apple #ComputerHistory #SteveJobs