"World's greatest toy" - BYTE magazine's 1975 description of personal computers. Fascinating how early adopters claimed to be "democratizing technology" while mostly playing Star Trek games! 😄 Some things never change - we just replaced Trek with Minecraft. At least they were honest about the "toy" part! #RetroComputing #TechHistory
https://it.slashdot.org/story/25/05/28/126210/the-hobby-computer-culture
The length of file names in early Unix
https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/unix/UnixEarlyFilenameLenghts
#HackerNews #Unix #File #Names #Early #History #UnixDevelopment #TechHistory
Why the Original Macintosh Had a Screen Resolution of 512×324
https://512pixels.net/2025/05/original-macintosh-resolution/
#HackerNews #OriginalMacintosh #ScreenResolution #TechHistory #VintageComputing #Apple
🔍 Digital archaeologists report the extinction of a rare specimen: Docomo's original emoji set (1999-2025). These ancient pixelated ancestors walked the Earth (well, phones) before modern emojis evolved! After 26 years of service, these digital hieroglyphs are entering the great keyboard in the sky. 📱✨ #TechHistory #EmojisEvolution
https://mobile.slashdot.org/story/25/05/26/1457242/docomo-emoji-set-to-be-officially-discontinued
🇫🇷 France's Minitel: The internet before the internet. 25 million users, online shopping, chat rooms - but with government infrastructure instead of Big Tech control.
We often assume today's digital landscape was inevitable. Minitel proves there were other paths. What digital futures did we not take?
https://youtu.be/CWhNScMMp8I
#TechHistory #DigitalAlternatives #DisconnectCollective #Minitel
Transforming digital noise into meaningful dialogue
🚜 What if the Unimog had stayed in the commons?
Born post-WWII to serve many, built to last, the Unimog met global demand — and then its creators went bankrupt. Not from failure, but from success.
They sold to Daimler. The rest is planned obsolescence.
What if they had released the IP instead?
🔗 https://eduzen.bearblog.dev/the-unimog-that-could-have-been-a-post-growth-parable/
#PostGrowth #OpenSourceHardware #Commons #SustainableDesign #Degrowth #CircularEconomy #TechHistory #CommonsTransition
Camera flash could crash the Raspberry Pi 2! The "Xenon Death Flash" is one of tech's weirdest bugs. How a community solved it (with Blu-Tack!) 📸💥
🧠 Before RISC vs. CISC. Before ARM dominance. Before the cloud. There was the Bellmac 32.
Now officially recognized as an IEEE Milestone, the Bellmac 32 helped define what 32-bit computing would become:
💾 Built in 1977 by Bell Labs, it was one of the earliest 32-bit microprocessors
🔐 Introduced memory protection and supervisor/user modes — setting the stage for modern OS security
🌐 Powered Unix systems, 5ESS telecom switches, and early internet infrastructure
🛠️ A foundational workhorse, now honored for the impact it had behind the scenes
It didn’t make headlines like the 8086 or the 68000 — but it should have. Hats off to the engineers who helped shape the future and are finally getting the recognition they deserve.
32 Bits That Changed Microprocessor Design
https://spectrum.ieee.org/bellmac-32-ieee-milestone
#HackerNews #32BitsThatChanged #MicroprocessorDesign #IEEE #Milestone #TechHistory #Innovation
@infoclio Featuring Olha Martynyuk @ol_marty
#techhistory #technikgeschichte #histodons
On May 22, 1980, the original Pac-Man made its debut and quickly became more than just an arcade hit—it marked a milestone in computing. It demonstrated early AI with ghosts that followed distinct behavioral algorithms, pushed real-time processing on limited hardware, and showcased intuitive, user-friendly design. It also was an example of early cross-platform development. A lot of fun, and a leap forward in computing!
El primer robot aspirador fue creado por Whirlpool en 1959.
#HistoriaDeLaTecnología #InnovaciónDoméstica #RobotAspirador #TechHistory #HomeInnovation #VacuumRobot
Analog Gods
Mixed software edit old school 1960s mastering deck reel to reel.
#abstractart #abstract #digitalart #analogvibes #techhistory #musichistory
Steve Jobs defendía que un ratón debía tener un solo botón. Paul Allen le dijo: “la gente tiene más de un dedo”.
22 años después… Apple lanzó el Mighty Mouse.
Moral: hasta Jobs se equivocaba a veces 🖱️😅
#Apple #TechHistory
How the Sun Enterprise 10000 was born (2007)
https://www.filibeto.org/aduritz/truetrue/e10000/how-e10k-wasborn.html
#HackerNews #SunEnterprise10000 #Sun #Microsystems #TechHistory #ComputerArchitecture #Innovation #2007
The Lost Japanese ROM of the Macintosh Plus
#HackerNews #LostJapaneseROM #MacintoshPlus #RetroComputing #TechHistory
🖥️📉 "Heroic" Doug Brown regales us with his legendary tale of slaying the dread Black Screen bug in Basilisk II, a triumph only relevant to those living in 2013. 🏆 Meanwhile, the rest of us are busy, you know, using modern software. 🙄 #LivingInThePast #NotAllHeroesWearCapes
https://www.downtowndougbrown.com/2025/05/how-i-fixed-the-infamous-basilisk-ii-windows-black-screen-bug-in-2013/ #HeroicTales #BlackScreenBug #BasiliskII #SoftwareDevelopment #TechHistory #HackerNews #ngated
How I fixed the infamous Basilisk II Windows "Black Screen" bug in 2013
#HackerNews #BasiliskII #Bug #Fix #Windows #BlackScreen #TechHistory
So 'ne Cray X-MP kostete damals übrigens je nach Ausbaustufe sieben- bis achtstellige Dollarbeträge. #vintagecomputing #cray #apple #techhistory #technikgeschichte
