9 posts tagged computing-history

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• Between early computing and modern computing: some cultural histories
  19.00, Thursday 3 Apr 2025 (streak: 262 weeks)
  881 words, 31 links
  Tagged: computing-history

• When you’re driving in Google Maps you’re re-enacting an ancient space combat sim
  20.24, Friday 17 May 2024 (streak: 216 weeks)
  1,373 words, 15 links
  Has 1 follow-up post
  Tagged: 20-most-popular-in-2024, computing-history, speculative-in-2024, vibe-is-real

• The map room is a physical room-size wiki for collaboration from the 1950s
  19.22, Friday 20 Jan 2023 (streak: 147 weeks)
  3,037 words, 13 links
  Has 6 follow-up posts
  Tagged: 20-most-popular-in-2023, 5-most-popular-in-2023, computing-history, multiplayer, speculative-in-2023

• Apple is mainstreaming the inventions of Alan Kay. Maybe the metaverse is next
  21.26, Monday 25 Apr 2022 (streak: 109 weeks)
  2,130 words, 15 links
  Has 2 follow-up posts
  Tagged: 20-most-popular-in-2022, computing-history, metaverse, multiplayer

• SAGE and a glimpse of group computing from before the PC
  22.18, Tuesday 21 Dec 2021 (streak: 91 weeks)
  1,438 words, 7 links
  Has 2 follow-up posts
  Tagged: computing-history, multiplayer

• The Memex, the Manhatten Project, and the month of July 1945
  17.36, Friday 14 May 2021 (streak: 59 weeks)
  554 words, 11 links
  Has 1 follow-up post
  Tagged: 20-most-popular-in-2021, computing-history

• A strange loop involving Brian Eno and the nature of time
  13.03, Wednesday 5 May 2021 (streak: 58 weeks)
  676 words, 8 links
  Has 3 follow-up posts
  Tagged: computing-history, sound-and-music, speculative-in-2021

• New horizons for office furniture
  18.49, Monday 30 Nov 2020 (streak: 36 weeks)
  809 words, 14 links
  Has 2 follow-up posts
  Tagged: computing-history, speculative-in-2020

• Art + tech
  19.20, Tuesday 13 Oct 2015 (streak: 2 weeks)
  2,312 words, 65 links
  Has 5 follow-up posts
  Tagged: computing-history