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Fun fact ergonomie :
En 1980, Philips a quasiment inventé la télécommande universelle avec la série PDSF. Un pavé pour le téléviseur K12, un pavé pour le magnétoscope V2000, le tout en infrarouge codé. Un chef-d'œuvre de plastique noir et de boutons en caoutchouc rigide qui pesait son poids en piles 9V. 🔋📡As-tu connu ?
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Steve Wozniak built for the love of it. Levy shows where that drive came from — and the culture that made it possible.
#books #bookreview #SteveWozniak #techhistory
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Japan tried to build an operating system for the world, the US intervened
Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49384180
#HackerNews #Japan #OperatingSystem #USIntervention #TechHistory #GlobalTech
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🎩🕵️♂️ Apparently, the #CIA moonlit as Silicon Valley's sugar daddy in the 80s, keeping #NeXT alive while Steve Jobs played magician with taxpayer dollars. 💸💻 Meanwhile, readers are left with more dead ends than a WSJ 404 page. 🙄📄
https://www.wsj.com/tech/steve-jobs-apple-next-cia-161b65f9?st=NWWds1&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink #SiliconValley #SteveJobs #TechHistory #TaxpayerDollars #HackerNews #ngated -
From 1966's ELIZA to modern LLMs, humanity repeatedly mistakes impressive machine outputs for subjective awareness. Modern AI predicts tokens—it doesn't experience life. Convincing performance isn't sentience.
https://hackernoon.com/the-machines-we-keep-mistaking-for-minds
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Short punchy stories instead of dry chapters. Read it in pieces or one go. Either way you won't want to stop.
#books #bookreview #techhistory #Apple
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What if Steve Jobs never returned to Apple? Geoffrey Cain explores the butterfly effect of small choices that saved the iPhone.
Even the tiniest decisions can ripple out and reshape the world in ways we never expect.
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Steve Jobs saw campus AI in the ’80s – a vision ahead of its time. Geoffrey Cain’s Steve Jobs in Exile shows the NeXT machine cost $10 k, too pricey for schools. The tech was right, but the world wasn’t ready. Being right too early can feel like being wrong. What does that teach us about timing in tech? https://youtube.com/shorts/kuET30GT2k4 #SteveJobs #AI #NeXT #TechHistory #SteveJobsInExile
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The Tragic End of GeoCities: The Web Pioneer That Built the Early Internet and Vanished Forever - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z33zHspYfiUI remember it well! I had a "site" there. ;-)
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The Tragic End of Iomega: The $7 Billion Zip Drive Giant That Ruled PC Storage Then Destroyed Itself - YouTube
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Quake Shareware, a CD-ROM just a little too full
https://fabiensanglard.net/quake_shareware_cd/index.html
Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49338328
#HackerNews #Quake #Shareware #CD-ROM #QuakeGames #RetroGaming #GameDevelopment #TechHistory
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150 years of American telecommunications. From Bell’s 1876 patent to broadband, the Internet and AI.
We’re bringing that history to life in a new online course—and looking for sponsors who want to help make it happen.
Interested? Let’s talk.
#tech #technology #broadband #history #telecom #telecommunication #techhistory #live #livestream #course #sponsors #sponsor
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The Life and Death of Direct File [pdf]
https://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/sites/default/files/vinton_report_5.pdf
Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49325185
#HackerNews #LifeAndDeathOfDirectFile #pdfDocument #DigitalPreservation #TechHistory
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Steve Jobs dreamed of campus AI in the ’80s—years ahead of its time. The NeXT computer flopped not for flaws, but for cost: $10k was a fortune for schools. Innovation often stumbles on timing, not vision.
A poignant look at ambition vs. reality 👇
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Wer von euch hätte gewusst, dass die Ursuppe von Java mal Oak hieß? Und ursprünglich gedacht war für interaktives Kabelfernsehen? Zur Wochenendunterhaltung habe ich für euch heute eine gute Stunde Java-History mit den Menschen, die von Anfang an dabei waren, enjoy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqGSg4b_cZA #vintagecomputing #retrocomputing #java #techhistory
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Jobs left Apple reckless and difficult. He came back with patience and focus. Failure built what success never could.
#books #bookreview #SecondComingOfSteveJobs
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🚀 Breaking news from 1994: the groundbreaking discovery that finite state machines can exist in Forth without a labyrinth of IF clauses! 🎉 Read on as our hero, J.V. Noble, valiantly types out a dissertation on programming techniques as old as the punch card, all while reveling in the complete lack of modern syntax highlighting. 📜🔍
https://www.forth.org/literature/noble.html #BreakingNews #FiniteStateMachines #ForthProgramming #JVNoble #TechHistory #HackerNews #ngated -
Finite State Machines in Forth (1994)
https://www.forth.org/literature/noble.html
Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49223964
#HackerNews #FiniteStateMachines #Forth #1994 #Programming #ComputerScience #TechHistory
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When people grieved the loss of GPT-4o models, it showed how convincing AI’s performance has become. But history repeats itself: from 1966's ELIZA to 2011's IBM Watson, we repeatedly mistake statistical pattern matching for a soul. Modern frontier LLMs optimize next-token prediction; they don't experience life. The danger isn't that machines feel, but that we act like they do.