Ah, the digital archeology site for #CP/M listings. ⚰️ Let's all gather 'round to marvel at the ancient #relics of yesteryear's tech, archived like sacred texts on the modern marvel known as the Apache server. 🖥️ Because clearly, our future depends on knowing the file size of CPM2.2 from June 2025. 📜✨
http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/digitalResearch/CPM_Listings/ #digitalarcheology #techhistory #ApacheServer #retrocomputing #HackerNews #ngated

Ah, the Amiga 4000T: the "best" Amiga ever, presumably because it's the only one shaped like a tower⛪. Let's take a "deep dive" into this beige box of #nostalgia, as if being the tallest kid in a class of dwarves is an achievement🏆. Apparently, nothing has surpassed it, except maybe the Internet's ability to romanticize irrelevant tech from the '90s 📼.
https://forgottencomputer.com/retro/a4000t/ #Amiga4000T #techhistory #retrocomputing #90scomputing #HackerNews #ngated

The Seymour Cray Era of Supercomputers

https://ztoz.blog/posts/cray-era-supercomputers/

#HackerNews #SeymourCray #Supercomputers #TechHistory #ComputingInnovation #HighPerformanceComputing

Firefox OS's story from a Mozilla insider not working on the project

https://ludovic.hirlimann.net/2024/01/firefox-oss-story-from-mozila-insider.html

#HackerNews #FirefoxOS #Mozilla #Insider #TechHistory #OpenSource #WebDevelopment

What MS-DOS Can Do That Linux Can't

http://webarchive.me/geocities/SiliconValley/2072/dosvslnx.htm

#HackerNews #MSDOS #LinuxComparison #TechHistory #RetroComputing #CommandLine

Weekly output: Zipline drones, fixed wireless broadband, AI transformations, Dashlane, AI fairness, FCC resignations, AI resiliency, National Capital Radio & Television MuseumM

My third week in a row of business travel had me in Santa Clara, Calif., from Tuesday through Friday–at a venue I’d last set foot in at the Demo conference in 2013.

6/3/2025: Inside Zipline’s high-tech drone factory where delivery innovation takes flight, Fast Company

My decision to book an early-afternon flight from SFO to National at the end of my Google I/O trip last month paid off when I used that time to visit the drone-delivery startup Zipline’s factory in South San Francisco. I followed up that visit by quizzing an executive from the firm a week later.

6/3/2025: Fiber Is Fast, But 5G Home Internet Is More Appealing for One Reason, PCMag

I didn’t want to write up this J.D. Power customer-satisfaction survey without getting some answers about the weirdly-high scores for old, slow digital-subscriber-line services.

6/4/2025: Transforming Industries with AI & Big Data—Success Stories from the Frontlines, TechEx North America

The first of three panels I did at this conference at the Santa Clara Convention Center (with the organizers covering my lodging and reimbursing my airfare) reunited me with a fellow panelist from 2021: Lufthansa Industry Solutions’ Stanislaw Schmal, who was on a panel I did at my first post-pandemic conference trip in September of 2021. It was a treat to have Stan on stage again, and he and my other panelists–Oracle’s Shasank Chavan, Ford Credit’s Manav Khatri, Airbnb’s Dror Engel, and Deepgram’s Kris Efland–made my panel-moderation work easy.

6/5/2025: This Password Manager Now Lets You Create an Account Without a Password, PCMag

Dashlane gave me an embargoed copy of their announcement of their new option to let people create accounts secured only by USB security keys, but that left me a little fuzzy about how exactly this would differ from that password-manager service’s existing support for passwordless authentication–and my editor was fine with holding the post until I could get those details cleared up.

6/5/2025: AI Fairness and Bias Mitigation—Advanced Approaches, TechEx North America

My second panel had me quizzing JPMorgan Chase’s Naresh Dulam, Aon’s Aras “Russ” Memisyazici, and PwC’s Ilana Golbin Blumenfeld about how to avoid having AI systems amplify human biases.

6/5/2025: Who’s Running the FCC? Surprise Resignation Reduces the Agency to a Duo, PCMag

I’ve been writing about the Federal Communications Commission for well over two decades, probably closer to three, and I can’t remember a commissioner announcing a resignation on a Wednesday effective on Friday of the same week. Also unprecedented: having this five-member commission reduced to two people.

6/5/2025: Building Resilient AI Infrastructure, TechEx North America

My last panel at TechEx was a late addition when another moderator dropped out; when an event paying your travel asks for you to pitch in, it’s a good idea to be a team player. My teammates on this panel: Ford Motor Company’s Robert Gray, Oracle’s Iman Zadeh, Red Hat’s Mark Kurtz and InfoVia’s Mike Magalsky.

6/6/2025: Spotify Takes Flight on United Airlines: Here’s What You Get, PCMag

When I got to try this on my flight from San Jose to Houston Friday, I realized that United’s implementation of Spotify did not include the ability to listen to the airline’s longtime theme song, “Rhapsody in Blue”–which made the lede I’d written incorrect. Instead of just rewriting that, I opted to take notes on the experience over that three-plus hour flight and rewrite the entire post.

6/7/2025: This Little Museum Outside DC Offers a Deep Dive Into Retro Radio and TV Tech, PCMag

My friend and longtime CES fellow traveler Gary Arlen suggested that I visit the National Capital Radio & Television Museum in Bowie, Md., where he’s a docent, and I took him up on that advice in February. Then I didn’t write the post until March, after which my client needed a little longer to get the story edited and published.

#AI #artificialIntelligence #conference #Dashlane #droneDelivery #DSL #FCC #FIDO2 #fixedWireless #JDPower #NationalCapitalRadioTelevisionMuseum #passwordManager #SantaClara #Spotify #techHistory #TechExNorthAmerica #UA #UnitedAirlines #vacuumTubes #vintage #Zipline

Dear Computer History people: I'm searching for books covering the history of the MIT Media Lab.The only one I found so far is "The Media Lab" by Stewart Brand, released in 1988. So a bit dated. Are you aware of other titles, which also cover the time AFTER 1988? It might be titles on other subjects but with a significant amount on the MIT Media Lab.

Edit: There is some material on their website as well: https://www.media.mit.edu/about/history/

#vintagecomputing #retrocomputing #techhistory #medialab

In a shocking revelation 😱, a tech dinosaur 🦖 discovers that younger web developers have never heard of the legendary <blink> and <marquee> tags. Apparently, history isn't taught in #HTML classes anymore. Who knew those #relics weren't museum exhibits yet? 😂
https://danq.me/2020/11/11/blink-and-marquee/ #techhistory #webdevelopment #nostalgia #codinghumor #HackerNews #ngated

Every time you see those "marching ants" around a selection or click a rounded rectangle button, you're using Bill Atkinson's innovations. The pioneering Apple developer (employee #51!) who gave us MacPaint, HyperCard, and much of our modern GUI has passed at 74. His code still shapes our digital world. 🖥️ #TechHistory

https://apple.slashdot.org/story/25/06/08/016210/bill-atkinson-hypercard-creator-and-original-mac-team-member-dies-at-age-74

If it works, it's not AI: a commercial look at AI startups (1977)

https://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/80558

#HackerNews #AI #Startups #CommercialAI #TechHistory #Innovation #1977 #HackerNews

When the internet became public in the 90s, Google did not yet exist. Today, just 2 years after ChatGPT, we are again at such a turning point: the companies that will shape our AI future have probably not yet been founded - and we cannot yet imagine them.

#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #KI #Technology #Tech #Techhistory #FutureTech #TechTrends #google #chatgpt

💬 IRC: o começo dos chats online

Em 1988, o finlandês Jarkko Oikarinen criou o IRC, que virou base para os chats modernos. Começou com uma BBS universitária e logo cresceu para dezenas de servidores no mundo todo.

Foi o início das conversas em tempo real na internet.

🔗 https://daniel.haxx.se/irchistory.html
#IRC #internet #technology #retrotech #techhistory

The initial version of the /etc./magic file used by the file(1) command

https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/31722/where-can-i-find-the-initial-version-of-the-etc-magic-file-used-by-the-file1

#HackerNews #etcmagic #file #filecommand #retrocomputing #techhistory #unix

Some of you probably remember WAIS. An Internet search engine from the Gopher era (more specific: a search protocol). TIL: Thinking Machines (those with the massive red blinkenlights servers) were the main driver and developer of WAIS: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wide_area_information_server #vintagecomputing #techhistory #wais #thinkingmachines #connectionmachine

Go down Android History memory lane with Jason Howell with the Google Nexus One. A trailblazer and its DNA is sprinkled throughout much of the modern smartphone landscape. #Android #TechHistory #Technology #Google https://www.androidfaithful.com/android-history-google-nexus-one-android-trailblazer/

Intelligent Agent Technology: Open Sesame! (1993)

https://blog.gingerbeardman.com/2025/05/31/intelligent-agent-technology-open-sesame-1993/

#HackerNews #IntelligentAgentTechnology #OpenSesame #1993 #TechHistory #AIInnovation

After 25 Years, Linux Format Magazine Is No More

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/05/linux-format-magazine-closes

#HackerNews #LinuxFormatMagazine #Linux #News #OpenSource #TechHistory #MagazineClosure

Oh, look! Another ✨riveting✨ blog post about a topic as dry as toast: estimating logarithms. Because who wouldn't want to read a 5-minute love letter to John Napier's brainchild from the 1600s? 📚🔥 Spoiler alert: count digits, feel smart. 😂
https://obrhubr.org/logarithm-estimation #estimatinglogarithms #JohnNapier #mathhumor #blogpost #techhistory #drytopics #HackerNews #ngated

Learning from the Amiga API/ABI

https://asm-basic-coder.neocities.org/rants/amigaapilearn

#HackerNews #Amiga #API #Amiga #ABI #programming #retrocomputing #techhistory