#oshistory — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #oshistory, aggregated by home.social.
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Oh, bless the digital archeologists for finally unearthing "Swamp Castle" 🏰—the last dinosaur 🦖 to roam Windows 7 land. Now, prepare your tearful goodbyes 👋 to an OS that just won't die, because apparently, roller coasters need version numbers too. 🎢💾
https://openrct2.io/blog/2026/05/openrct2-v0.5.1-released #digitalarcheology #Windows7 #nostalgia #OShistory #goodbyeOS #rollercoaster #HackerNews #ngated -
Oh, bless the digital archeologists for finally unearthing "Swamp Castle" 🏰—the last dinosaur 🦖 to roam Windows 7 land. Now, prepare your tearful goodbyes 👋 to an OS that just won't die, because apparently, roller coasters need version numbers too. 🎢💾
https://openrct2.io/blog/2026/05/openrct2-v0.5.1-released #digitalarcheology #Windows7 #nostalgia #OShistory #goodbyeOS #rollercoaster #HackerNews #ngated -
🎨 So, you spent your weekend reanimating the digital corpses of every OS since time began? 🕰️ Why not spend that effort on something useful, like inventing a time machine to take us back to before this article existed. 🚀 #NostalgiaOverload
https://virtualosmuseum.org/ #NostalgiaOverload #TimeMachine #DigitalArt #WeekendProjects #OSHistory #HackerNews #ngated -
🎨 So, you spent your weekend reanimating the digital corpses of every OS since time began? 🕰️ Why not spend that effort on something useful, like inventing a time machine to take us back to before this article existed. 🚀 #NostalgiaOverload
https://virtualosmuseum.org/ #NostalgiaOverload #TimeMachine #DigitalArt #WeekendProjects #OSHistory #HackerNews #ngated -
CW: computing / OS history, TIL
Huh, I think I knew in the recesses of my mind that macOS (né Mac OS X) is basically descendant from NeXTSTEP, the operating system NeXT used for its computers – NeXT being the company Steve Jobs founded when he left Apple in the late 80s / early 90s, and which was in many ways "resorbed" into Apple upon Jobs' return to Apple in 1997. (NeXTSTEP is itself a sort of BSD derivative.)
What I did not know until today is that we have NeXTSTEP to thank for the weird sort-of-like-JSON-but-not-quite-JSON "property list" file format, which app preferences are stored in on macOS to this fucking day 🤯
Holy Choices-Locked-In-For-Bizarre-Reasons, Batman!!
#ComputingHistory #OSes #OperatingSystems #OSHistory #HistoryOfComputing #Apple #NeXT #NeXTSTEP #BSD #Darwin #MachKernel #plist
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CW: computing / OS history, TIL
Huh, I think I knew in the recesses of my mind that macOS (né Mac OS X) is basically descendant from NeXTSTEP, the operating system NeXT used for its computers – NeXT being the company Steve Jobs founded when he left Apple in the late 80s / early 90s, and which was in many ways "resorbed" into Apple upon Jobs' return to Apple in 1997. (NeXTSTEP is itself a sort of BSD derivative.)
What I did not know until today is that we have NeXTSTEP to thank for the weird sort-of-like-JSON-but-not-quite-JSON "property list" file format, which app preferences are stored in on macOS to this fucking day 🤯
Holy Choices-Locked-In-For-Bizarre-Reasons, Batman!!
#ComputingHistory #OSes #OperatingSystems #OSHistory #HistoryOfComputing #Apple #NeXT #NeXTSTEP #BSD #Darwin #MachKernel #plist