#techhistory — Public Fediverse posts
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🎉 Ah, #Gnutella, the ancient relic of decentralized tech that nobody asked for but everyone used to hoard pirated music 🎶. Rick Carlino waxes poetic about a protocol that peaked before most of its users understood what "peer-to-peer" meant, much like explaining rotary phones to TikTok influencers 📞➡️📱.
https://rickcarlino.com/notes/p2p/gnutella-explanation.html #DecentralizedTech #PeerToPeer #MusicPiracy #TechHistory #HackerNews #ngated -
🎉 Ah, #Gnutella, the ancient relic of decentralized tech that nobody asked for but everyone used to hoard pirated music 🎶. Rick Carlino waxes poetic about a protocol that peaked before most of its users understood what "peer-to-peer" meant, much like explaining rotary phones to TikTok influencers 📞➡️📱.
https://rickcarlino.com/notes/p2p/gnutella-explanation.html #DecentralizedTech #PeerToPeer #MusicPiracy #TechHistory #HackerNews #ngated -
🎉 Ah, #Gnutella, the ancient relic of decentralized tech that nobody asked for but everyone used to hoard pirated music 🎶. Rick Carlino waxes poetic about a protocol that peaked before most of its users understood what "peer-to-peer" meant, much like explaining rotary phones to TikTok influencers 📞➡️📱.
https://rickcarlino.com/notes/p2p/gnutella-explanation.html #DecentralizedTech #PeerToPeer #MusicPiracy #TechHistory #HackerNews #ngated -
🎉 Ah, #Gnutella, the ancient relic of decentralized tech that nobody asked for but everyone used to hoard pirated music 🎶. Rick Carlino waxes poetic about a protocol that peaked before most of its users understood what "peer-to-peer" meant, much like explaining rotary phones to TikTok influencers 📞➡️📱.
https://rickcarlino.com/notes/p2p/gnutella-explanation.html #DecentralizedTech #PeerToPeer #MusicPiracy #TechHistory #HackerNews #ngated -
🎉 Ah, #Gnutella, the ancient relic of decentralized tech that nobody asked for but everyone used to hoard pirated music 🎶. Rick Carlino waxes poetic about a protocol that peaked before most of its users understood what "peer-to-peer" meant, much like explaining rotary phones to TikTok influencers 📞➡️📱.
https://rickcarlino.com/notes/p2p/gnutella-explanation.html #DecentralizedTech #PeerToPeer #MusicPiracy #TechHistory #HackerNews #ngated -
🚀 Wow, #Microsoft open-sourcing #DOS code from the paleozoic era! 🦖 Because who doesn't want to relive the glory days of "dir" and "copy con"? 👴 Next, they'll gift us with a floppy disk museum tour! 🥳
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/04/microsoft-open-sources-the-earliest-dos-source-code-discovered-to-date/ #OpenSource #Nostalgia #TechHistory #FloppyDiskMuseum #HackerNews #ngated -
🚀 Wow, #Microsoft open-sourcing #DOS code from the paleozoic era! 🦖 Because who doesn't want to relive the glory days of "dir" and "copy con"? 👴 Next, they'll gift us with a floppy disk museum tour! 🥳
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/04/microsoft-open-sources-the-earliest-dos-source-code-discovered-to-date/ #OpenSource #Nostalgia #TechHistory #FloppyDiskMuseum #HackerNews #ngated -
👴🔧 Ah, the thrill of dissecting a 40-year-old computer from the Stone Age of technology! 🤓🔍 Because, you know, we've all been dying to understand a French-built #minicomputer that couldn't be bothered with a microprocessor. Truly, the pinnacle of scientific inquiry: what did the ancient astronauts do without TikTok? 🎢🚀
https://www.righto.com/2026/05/reverse-engineering-spacelab-computer.html #vintagecomputing #techhistory #nostalgia #scientificinquiry #hackerspace #HackerNews #ngated -
👴🔧 Ah, the thrill of dissecting a 40-year-old computer from the Stone Age of technology! 🤓🔍 Because, you know, we've all been dying to understand a French-built #minicomputer that couldn't be bothered with a microprocessor. Truly, the pinnacle of scientific inquiry: what did the ancient astronauts do without TikTok? 🎢🚀
https://www.righto.com/2026/05/reverse-engineering-spacelab-computer.html #vintagecomputing #techhistory #nostalgia #scientificinquiry #hackerspace #HackerNews #ngated -
👴🔧 Ah, the thrill of dissecting a 40-year-old computer from the Stone Age of technology! 🤓🔍 Because, you know, we've all been dying to understand a French-built #minicomputer that couldn't be bothered with a microprocessor. Truly, the pinnacle of scientific inquiry: what did the ancient astronauts do without TikTok? 🎢🚀
https://www.righto.com/2026/05/reverse-engineering-spacelab-computer.html #vintagecomputing #techhistory #nostalgia #scientificinquiry #hackerspace #HackerNews #ngated -
👴🔧 Ah, the thrill of dissecting a 40-year-old computer from the Stone Age of technology! 🤓🔍 Because, you know, we've all been dying to understand a French-built #minicomputer that couldn't be bothered with a microprocessor. Truly, the pinnacle of scientific inquiry: what did the ancient astronauts do without TikTok? 🎢🚀
https://www.righto.com/2026/05/reverse-engineering-spacelab-computer.html #vintagecomputing #techhistory #nostalgia #scientificinquiry #hackerspace #HackerNews #ngated -
👴🔧 Ah, the thrill of dissecting a 40-year-old computer from the Stone Age of technology! 🤓🔍 Because, you know, we've all been dying to understand a French-built #minicomputer that couldn't be bothered with a microprocessor. Truly, the pinnacle of scientific inquiry: what did the ancient astronauts do without TikTok? 🎢🚀
https://www.righto.com/2026/05/reverse-engineering-spacelab-computer.html #vintagecomputing #techhistory #nostalgia #scientificinquiry #hackerspace #HackerNews #ngated -
👩💻 Ah yes, in 2026 we're still being told how some dusty computer from 1955 "changed our understanding" of chaos. 🤯 Apparently, it took a Nobel laureate, a genius programmer, and a printer spewing numbers like it's going out of style, to discover that chaos is chaotic. Breaking news: water is wet! 💦
https://www.lanl.gov/media/publications/1663/science-of-unpredictability #HackerNews #ChaosTheory #TechHistory #GeniusProgramming #WetWater #HackerNews #ngated -
80386 Microcode Disassembled
https://www.reenigne.org/blog/80386-microcode-disassembled/
#HackerNews #80386 #Microcode #Disassembly #ComputerArchitecture #RetroComputing #TechHistory
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Yesterday I started researching the history of Transmeta and its Crusoe and Efficeon processor technology, namely LongRun and LongRun2. The research will end up in a talk for some future vintage computing events throughout Germany and/or Europe. #vintagecomputing #techhistory #transmeta
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Steve Wozniak, "Woz", es el genio de la ingeniería que cofundó Apple junto a Steve Jobs. Mientras Jobs era el visionario de los negocios, Wozniak diseñó por completo y a mano las computadoras Apple I y Apple II, revolucionando la informática personal.
Es admirado mundialmente por su espíritu hacker puro, su ética generosa y su amor por la educación. ¡Un verdadero héroe que democratizó la tecnología! 🍏💻
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Steve Wozniak, "Woz", es el genio de la ingeniería que cofundó Apple junto a Steve Jobs. Mientras Jobs era el visionario de los negocios, Wozniak diseñó por completo y a mano las computadoras Apple I y Apple II, revolucionando la informática personal.
Es admirado mundialmente por su espíritu hacker puro, su ética generosa y su amor por la educación. ¡Un verdadero héroe que democratizó la tecnología! 🍏💻
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Steve Wozniak, "Woz", es el genio de la ingeniería que cofundó Apple junto a Steve Jobs. Mientras Jobs era el visionario de los negocios, Wozniak diseñó por completo y a mano las computadoras Apple I y Apple II, revolucionando la informática personal.
Es admirado mundialmente por su espíritu hacker puro, su ética generosa y su amor por la educación. ¡Un verdadero héroe que democratizó la tecnología! 🍏💻
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Steve Wozniak, "Woz", es el genio de la ingeniería que cofundó Apple junto a Steve Jobs. Mientras Jobs era el visionario de los negocios, Wozniak diseñó por completo y a mano las computadoras Apple I y Apple II, revolucionando la informática personal.
Es admirado mundialmente por su espíritu hacker puro, su ética generosa y su amor por la educación. ¡Un verdadero héroe que democratizó la tecnología! 🍏💻
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Steve Wozniak, "Woz", es el genio de la ingeniería que cofundó Apple junto a Steve Jobs. Mientras Jobs era el visionario de los negocios, Wozniak diseñó por completo y a mano las computadoras Apple I y Apple II, revolucionando la informática personal.
Es admirado mundialmente por su espíritu hacker puro, su ética generosa y su amor por la educación. ¡Un verdadero héroe que democratizó la tecnología! 🍏💻
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AI GENERATED CONTENT: A CENTURY OF AMUSEMENT AND ANNOYANCE
Learn why people call AI-generated content slop. Discover the history of machine-made writing and how it compares to the tools used today in May 2026.
#aicontent, #techhistory, #aislop, #digitalmedia, #futureofai
https://newsletter.tf/history-of-ai-slop-and-automated-content-2026/
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Since the early 1900s, people have tried to make machines write stories. Today, the amount of AI content is much higher than in the past, leading to frustration.
#aicontent, #techhistory, #aislop, #digitalmedia, #futureofai
https://newsletter.tf/history-of-ai-slop-and-automated-content-2026/ -
Ah yes, the riveting tale of Qian Xuesen, where disabling #JavaScript apparently means losing a missile genius 🎉. Nothing says "cutting-edge historical analysis" like a website that can't even load without #cookies 🍪.
https://www.usni.org/magazines/naval-history/2025/december/missile-genius-america-lost-and-china-gained #QianXuesen #TechHistory #MissileGenius #CuttingEdgeAnalysis #HackerNews #ngated -
AOL killed a wild little team that helped shape the internet. Chaos builds things - big systems sand it down. https://slate.com/technology/2004/11/the-death-of-the-last-maverick-tech-company.html #techhistory #writing #innovation #scifi
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Imagine if in 1980 IBM had partnered with Digital Research instead of Microsoft.
Gary Kildall might become the era’s Bill Gates, CP/M could emerge as the PC standard with “CP/M Compatible” badges replacing “Windows Compatible.”
GEM might be the default GUI, Gates is a typical software vendor and Microsoft Office never rules business. Would computing culture change or mostly end up the same?
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Vor 20 Jahren trat der erste bekannte Y2K38-Bug in Produktion auf.
Beim Open-Source-Webserver AOLserver führte „jetzt + 1 Milliarde Sekunden“ erstmals über die 32-Bit-Zeitgrenze hinaus. Verbindungen liefen sofort ab, Timer kippten, Scheduler blockierten.
Das Jahr-2038-Problem war damit nicht mehr theoretisch.
Und 20 Jahre später ist es noch immer nicht gelöst.
https://y2k38.ch/aolserver-2038-problem-y2k38-bug
Edit: Fixed Link
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Vor 20 Jahren trat der erste bekannte Y2K38-Bug in Produktion auf.
Beim Open-Source-Webserver AOLserver führte „jetzt + 1 Milliarde Sekunden“ erstmals über die 32-Bit-Zeitgrenze hinaus. Verbindungen liefen sofort ab, Timer kippten, Scheduler blockierten.
Das Jahr-2038-Problem war damit nicht mehr theoretisch.
Und 20 Jahre später ist es noch immer nicht gelöst.
https://y2k38.ch/aolserver-2038-problem-y2k38-bug
Edit: Fixed Link
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Vor 20 Jahren trat der erste bekannte Y2K38-Bug in Produktion auf.
Beim Open-Source-Webserver AOLserver führte „jetzt + 1 Milliarde Sekunden“ erstmals über die 32-Bit-Zeitgrenze hinaus. Verbindungen liefen sofort ab, Timer kippten, Scheduler blockierten.
Das Jahr-2038-Problem war damit nicht mehr theoretisch.
Und 20 Jahre später ist es noch immer nicht gelöst.
https://y2k38.ch/aolserver-2038-problem-y2k38-bug
Edit: Fixed Link
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Vor 20 Jahren trat der erste bekannte Y2K38-Bug in Produktion auf.
Beim Open-Source-Webserver AOLserver führte „jetzt + 1 Milliarde Sekunden“ erstmals über die 32-Bit-Zeitgrenze hinaus. Verbindungen liefen sofort ab, Timer kippten, Scheduler blockierten.
Das Jahr-2038-Problem war damit nicht mehr theoretisch.
Und 20 Jahre später ist es noch immer nicht gelöst.
https://y2k38.ch/aolserver-2038-problem-y2k38-bug
Edit: Fixed Link
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Vor 20 Jahren trat der erste bekannte Y2K38-Bug in Produktion auf.
Beim Open-Source-Webserver AOLserver führte „jetzt + 1 Milliarde Sekunden“ erstmals über die 32-Bit-Zeitgrenze hinaus. Verbindungen liefen sofort ab, Timer kippten, Scheduler blockierten.
Das Jahr-2038-Problem war damit nicht mehr theoretisch.
Und 20 Jahre später ist es noch immer nicht gelöst.
https://y2k38.ch/aolserver-2038-problem-y2k38-bug
Edit: Fixed Link
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🚀 Welcome to the 2003 SGI Buyer's Guide, where we help you pick the perfect antique workstation for your museum of obsolete tech! 🦖 Our comprehensive guide covers everything from fossilized Indigo models to the decrepit O2, ensuring you know how to buy a doorstop that's truly vintage. 📜✨
https://hardware.majix.org/computers/sgi/buyers-guide.shtml #antiqueWorkstations #vintageTech #SGIBuyersGuide #obsoleteTech #museumCollectibles #techHistory #HackerNews #ngated -
🚀 Welcome to the 2003 SGI Buyer's Guide, where we help you pick the perfect antique workstation for your museum of obsolete tech! 🦖 Our comprehensive guide covers everything from fossilized Indigo models to the decrepit O2, ensuring you know how to buy a doorstop that's truly vintage. 📜✨
https://hardware.majix.org/computers/sgi/buyers-guide.shtml #antiqueWorkstations #vintageTech #SGIBuyersGuide #obsoleteTech #museumCollectibles #techHistory #HackerNews #ngated -
🚀 Welcome to the 2003 SGI Buyer's Guide, where we help you pick the perfect antique workstation for your museum of obsolete tech! 🦖 Our comprehensive guide covers everything from fossilized Indigo models to the decrepit O2, ensuring you know how to buy a doorstop that's truly vintage. 📜✨
https://hardware.majix.org/computers/sgi/buyers-guide.shtml #antiqueWorkstations #vintageTech #SGIBuyersGuide #obsoleteTech #museumCollectibles #techHistory #HackerNews #ngated -
🚀 Welcome to the 2003 SGI Buyer's Guide, where we help you pick the perfect antique workstation for your museum of obsolete tech! 🦖 Our comprehensive guide covers everything from fossilized Indigo models to the decrepit O2, ensuring you know how to buy a doorstop that's truly vintage. 📜✨
https://hardware.majix.org/computers/sgi/buyers-guide.shtml #antiqueWorkstations #vintageTech #SGIBuyersGuide #obsoleteTech #museumCollectibles #techHistory #HackerNews #ngated -
🚀 Welcome to the 2003 SGI Buyer's Guide, where we help you pick the perfect antique workstation for your museum of obsolete tech! 🦖 Our comprehensive guide covers everything from fossilized Indigo models to the decrepit O2, ensuring you know how to buy a doorstop that's truly vintage. 📜✨
https://hardware.majix.org/computers/sgi/buyers-guide.shtml #antiqueWorkstations #vintageTech #SGIBuyersGuide #obsoleteTech #museumCollectibles #techHistory #HackerNews #ngated -
Through #VibeCoding, the 1970s punch card feeling is making a comeback in #SoftwareDevelopment.
Back then, developers waited hours for a "run." One typo meant re-punching and queuing up again. The waiting time forced extreme focus and forethought.
Today, some do no longer type code, but let #GenerativeAI build it. The wait is back. We stare spellbound at the screen while the #AI builds.
In that sense, the prompt appears to be the new punch card.
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Through #VibeCoding, the 1970s punch card feeling is making a comeback in #SoftwareDevelopment.
Back then, developers waited hours for a "run." One typo meant re-punching and queuing up again. The waiting time forced extreme focus and forethought.
Today, some do no longer type code, but let #GenerativeAI build it. The wait is back. We stare spellbound at the screen while the #AI builds.
In that sense, the prompt appears to be the new punch card.
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Through #VibeCoding, the 1970s punch card feeling is making a comeback in #SoftwareDevelopment.
Back then, developers waited hours for a "run." One typo meant re-punching and queuing up again. The waiting time forced extreme focus and forethought.
Today, some do no longer type code, but let #GenerativeAI build it. The wait is back. We stare spellbound at the screen while the #AI builds.
In that sense, the prompt appears to be the new punch card.
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Through #VibeCoding, the 1970s punch card feeling is making a comeback in #SoftwareDevelopment.
Back then, developers waited hours for a "run." One typo meant re-punching and queuing up again. The waiting time forced extreme focus and forethought.
Today, some do no longer type code, but let #GenerativeAI build it. The wait is back. We stare spellbound at the screen while the #AI builds.
In that sense, the prompt appears to be the new punch card.
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Through #VibeCoding, the 1970s punch card feeling is making a comeback in #SoftwareDevelopment.
Back then, developers waited hours for a "run." One typo meant re-punching and queuing up again. The waiting time forced extreme focus and forethought.
Today, some do no longer type code, but let #GenerativeAI build it. The wait is back. We stare spellbound at the screen while the #AI builds.
In that sense, the prompt appears to be the new punch card.
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Genuine question I keep coming back to: if your favourite old OS had never been discontinued and just kept getting developed normally by their OG devs with proper modern hardware support, security patches and so on, which one would you actually want to daily drive today?
For me it's a tossup between Windows XP and Windows 7. I used both of them a lot when I was younger and honestly they felt basically the same to me at the time, but Windows 7 always seemed a bit easier to navigate.
#RetroComputing #OldTech #Fediverse #Mastodon #Windows #WindowsXP #Windows7 #Microsoft #Nostalgia #ComputerHistory #TechHistory #VintageComputing #OperatingSystems #Fediverse
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Genuine question I keep coming back to: if your favourite old OS had never been discontinued and just kept getting developed normally by their OG devs with proper modern hardware support, security patches and so on, which one would you actually want to daily drive today?
For me it's a tossup between Windows XP and Windows 7. I used both of them a lot when I was younger and honestly they felt basically the same to me at the time, but Windows 7 always seemed a bit easier to navigate.
#RetroComputing #OldTech #Fediverse #Mastodon #Windows #WindowsXP #Windows7 #Microsoft #Nostalgia #ComputerHistory #TechHistory #VintageComputing #OperatingSystems #Fediverse
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Genuine question I keep coming back to: if your favourite old OS had never been discontinued and just kept getting developed normally by their OG devs with proper modern hardware support, security patches and so on, which one would you actually want to daily drive today?
For me it's a tossup between Windows XP and Windows 7. I used both of them a lot when I was younger and honestly they felt basically the same to me at the time, but Windows 7 always seemed a bit easier to navigate.
#RetroComputing #OldTech #Fediverse #Mastodon #Windows #WindowsXP #Windows7 #Microsoft #Nostalgia #ComputerHistory #TechHistory #VintageComputing #OperatingSystems #Fediverse
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Genuine question I keep coming back to: if your favourite old OS had never been discontinued and just kept getting developed normally by their OG devs with proper modern hardware support, security patches and so on, which one would you actually want to daily drive today?
For me it's a tossup between Windows XP and Windows 7. I used both of them a lot when I was younger and honestly they felt basically the same to me at the time, but Windows 7 always seemed a bit easier to navigate.
#RetroComputing #OldTech #Fediverse #Mastodon #Windows #WindowsXP #Windows7 #Microsoft #Nostalgia #ComputerHistory #TechHistory #VintageComputing #OperatingSystems #Fediverse
