@gminks an IBM punchcard (Hollerith) from my undergrad years writing one of the first computer langauges, FORTRAN.

#hollerith / #HermanHollerith/ #IBM / #FORTRAN <https://www.flickr.com/photos/bootload/247968267>

@mcmenguc The spirit of #Hollerith is still alive.
Hollerith Germany (IBM) enabled the registration and therefore systematic murder of Jews during the Third Reich because they sold the punchcard registration, counting and sorting machines enabling this. And they knew it.

Hollerith’s Law: Asserts that as an online discussion about computers grows longer (regardless of topic or scope), the probability of “punch cards” increases.

#unix #law #punchcards #linux #hollerith #online #discussion #hpc #cloud

#Hollerith punch card machine in a prison courtyard.
Drawing by Franz #Kafka

#midjourney #ai #robopoieses

@AndrzejWasowski

#TWIRI (#TheWayIRememberIt) from the 60s, $ was used to $ignify (#Hollerith) $trings.