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The Interim Computer Museum

https://icm.museum/

Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49679459

#HackerNews #InterimComputerMuseum #TechHistory #DigitalPreservation #ComputingHeritage #MuseumExhibits

Wozniak. Gates. Jobs. They wanted to put computing power in everyone's hands. This book shows the culture that made that possible.
#books #bookreview #SteveJobs #techhistory
https://smpl.is/amt2j

🆕 The #PHONLAB project, coordinated by Quintino Lopes, is set to achieve one of its major objectives: the opening of the “Armando de Lacerda Wing: Coimbra Experimental Phonetics Laboratory”, which has transformed the former laboratory premises at the University of Coimbra into a place of remembrance, research and outreach.

👉 Full story: https://ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/en/phonlab-exhibition/

#Histodons #ExperimentalPhonetics #ArmandoDeLacerda #TechHistory #SciComm #Exhibition

Before interviewing Acer Chairman & CEO Jason Chen, TechFinitive Editor-in-Chief Tim Danton asked him to pick the products that defined Acer’s 50-year history.

He chose five milestones, but we ended up with SIX—thanks to a legendary duo that reinvigorated the Predator gaming line. From Multitech’s 1976 origins to global tech titan, here is Acer’s journey through six iconic devices.

Read the full history:
https://www.techfinitive.com/features/a-history-of-acer-in-six-products-as-chosen-by-acer-ceo-jason-chen/

#Acer #TechHistory #Predator #Gaming #TechFinitive #GamingPC

What algorithm did Windows XP use to choose your initial user picture?

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20260909-00/?p=112683

Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49640646

#HackerNews #WindowsXP #UserPicture #Algorithm #Microsoft #DevBlogs #TechHistory

Reverse engineering the 2008 LogiCola, a logic drill program

https://logicola.org/blog/the-new-logicola

Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49611329

#HackerNews #ReverseEngineering #LogicDrill #LogiCola #2008 #TechHistory

ZX Spectrum: Experimenting with 1-Bit Sound

https://bumbershootsoft.wordpress.com/2026/09/05/zx-spectrum-experimenting-with-1-bit-sound/

Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49611230

#HackerNews #ZXSpectrum #1BitSound #RetroGaming #AudioExperiment #TechHistory

🤣 Ah, yes, the thrilling saga of ancient HTML—because who doesn't love a long-winded, 3042-word essay on #code relics? 📜 For all those lost souls yearning to relive the golden days of <blink> tags and table-based layouts. 🕰️ Because, clearly, what today's tech scene needed was a deep dive into the graveyard of outdated web snippets. 🌐💀
https://vale.rocks/posts/html-relics #ancientHTML #webnostalgia #relics #techhistory #outdatedweb #HackerNews #ngated

Antiquated HTML Snippets and Artefacts

https://vale.rocks/posts/html-relics

Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49607991

#HackerNews #HTML #Snippets #WebDevelopment #TechHistory #DigitalArtifacts #Coding

Five stars. Fast, honest, and full of real stories from the people who built the Mac. Start tonight and finish fast.
#books #bookreview #techhistory #nonfiction
https://smpl.is/amp1f

Catching Crumbs from the Table (2000)

https://www.nature.com/articles/35014679

Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49584053

#HackerNews #CatchingCrumbs #CrumbsFromTheTable #Nature2000 #HackerNews #TechHistory

Steve Jobs imagined an AI decades ahead, but universities and big institutions balked—rigid budgets, bureaucracy killed the dream. Geoffrey Cain, author of Steve Jobs in Exile, shows how visionary tech meets institutional inertia, a story that echoes today’s AI rollout struggles. Are we finally past the red‑tape? 👇 https://youtube.com/shorts/kuET30GT2k4 #SteveJobs #AI #NeXT #TechHistory

OpenBSD Stories: Strange Medieval Devices

http://miod.online.fr/software/openbsd/stories/smd.html

Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49539759

#HackerNews #OpenBSD #Medieval #Devices #Stories #TechHistory #UniqueDevices

Sharing vs ownership. Open code vs business. Levy asks what happens when a culture built on freedom meets money. No easy answer.
#books #bookreview #Hackers #techhistory
https://smpl.is/amn1o

Project Xanadu: Even More Hindsight

https://gwern.net/xanadu

Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49559522

#HackerNews #ProjectXanadu #Hindsight #TechHistory #DigitalInnovation #WebHistory

Published in 2000 — before the iPod, iPhone, or iPad. But the foundation Deutschman covers is where all of that started.
#books #bookreview #SteveJobs #techhistory
https://smpl.is/amlhc

The Computer Museum of America reclamation project

https://computer-museum.org/wp/

Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49511493

#HackerNews #ComputerMuseum #America #Reclamation #Project #TechHistory #Innovation #Preservation #Computing

Commodore 64 released September 1, 1982

https://dfarq.homeip.net/commodore-64-released-september-1-1982/

Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49533497

#HackerNews #Commodore64 #retrogaming #vintagecomputing #techhistory #nostalgia

Geoffrey Cain, author of Steve Jobs in Exile, says after learning how tiny choices saved the iPhone, he can never look at his own phone the same way. After hearing his story, will you ever pick up your phone and see it differently? Share what product now feels new to you.

https://youtube.com/shorts/wKstUmrmW34

#SteveJobs #iPhone #Apple #TechHistory

@savetz @internetarchive

I preserved some ACE-St. Louis "NewsLine" issues myself. I scanned 8 issues from the years 1990 to 1994, and published them on Break Into Chat and on the Internet Archive in 2023.

* Read my memories of ACE here: https://breakintochat.com/blog/e1eg

* Explore the 8 newsletters here: https://breakintochat.com/collections/magazines/ace-st-louis/

* Or on the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/@kirkman14?query=ace-st.+louis

#atari #atarist #digipres #history #techhistory #computerhistory