Hier gibt es doch bestimmt auch Menschen mit Ahnung in Architekturgeschichte: mit welchen europäischen Stadtplanern ab so grob der Gründerzeit bis heute lohnt es denn, sich mal eine Weile zu beschäftigen? #technikgeschichte #techhistory
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Congratulations to Ricardo Noronha, PI of the project '#PETROSINES — Peripheral Petromodernity. A Global Microhistory of the Sines Area Project (1971-1999)', one of only six History projects selected for funfing by FCT on its latest call.
We tell you more here: https://ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/ricardo-noronha-petromodernidade/
Notes on the history of the “map tile” by Ingrid Burrington:
https://placing.technology/notes-on-the-history-of-the-map-tile
placing.technologyNotes on the history of the map tile - Placing TechnologiesWeb map tiles—the storing of geospatial data at different zoom levels in x/y/z indexed squares of raster (and later, vector) data for efficient
Swedish Campground: "There are too many Apples on the screen!" (1983)
https://www.folklore.org/Swedish_Campground.html
#HackerNews #SwedishCampground #Apples #1983 #TechHistory #RetroComputing #Folklore
www.folklore.orgFolklore.org: Swedish Campground
Nicola Pellow: The Quiet Hero of the Web
At 21, while still a student, she built the first cross-platform browser, letting the web go global. Then she disappeared.
Who remembers her today? Almost no one.
I wrote my longest post since 2016 to honour her and the quiet women who shaped tech.
blogs.aashgates.comThe Unseen Pioneer: Nicola Pellow and the Dawn of the WebShe was young, quiet, and brilliant, coding in a CERN corner while the world didn’t even know the web existed yet. Nicola Pellow learned C from scratch, built
Timeline: the origins of digital paint and draw software, and the tools that were developed to allow for hand drawing and painting: the mouse, light pen, and drawing tablet.
h/t @codepo8 #DigitalArt #TechHistory #mouse #LightPen #DrawingTablet #tools
Kristen Roospaint: a timeline — Kristen Roos
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#TechHistory nerd side note:
One outcome of the 2001 antitrust case against BorgSoft was to stop them making all web browsing on Windows depend on Internet Exploiter. The Safari WebView on iThings does *exactly* what BorgSoft were forbidden from doing.
I'm guessing Goggle use various backhanded tricks to push app devs into using the Chrome WebView on Android. We're certainly at risk of future enshittification making it compulsory there too.
#AntiMonopoly prosecutors take note.
Did you know that the 'NT' in Windows NT stood for "Nine Ten"?
The intended core platform for the OS was the then-expected Intel i910 RISC processor, which was to be the rebranded moniker for the i860 that can be found in the wild. *
It never came to be due to the i860s terrible handling of context switching -- a capability that a CPU for a multitasking, multiuser workstation OS must be able to do _very_efficiently_. The i860 wasn't.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTkFGZqVCM8&t=459s
*** EDIT: Several have pointed to sources indicating differently that NT stood for N10, which was the codename for the i860, so -- N10, N-Ten > NT.
Campingurlaub. #onepicaday #techhistory
»Advances in silicon and processing technologies now give us clock speeds in excess of 40 MHz and chips with 1 million transistors!«
Source: Victor K. L. Huang – High-Performance Microprocessors: The RISC Dilemma, in “IEEE Micro August 1989 #vintagecomputing #risc #techhistory
Bill Gates and Linux creator Linus Torvalds met for the first time at a dinner hosted by Microsoft Azure CTO Mark Russinovich. 
No major kernel decisions were made, but the meeting highlights how Microsoft’s relationship with Linux has evolved—from rivalry to collaboration. 
https://www.pcguide.com/news/bill-gates-meets-linux-creator-linus-torvalds-for-the-first-time/
PC Guide · Once great rivals, finally face-to-face: Bill Gates meets Linux creatorAmazingly, Linus Torvalds, creator of the Linux kernel, met the Microsoft co-founder for the first time recently.
Eine Runde Internet-Geschichte, frisch von der Gulaschprogrammiernacht: "Kein Quantum Trost: Wie ein Firefox an einer Chromium-Vergiftung zugrunde ging." Darin: ein unterhaltsamer, historischer Abriss der Geschichte des Web-Browsers von @LustigerLeo Enjoy: https://media.ccc.de/v/gpn23-64-kein-quantum-trost-wie-ein-firefox-an-einer-chromium-vergiftung-zugrunde-ging #techhistory #technikgeschichte #gpn23 #mozilla #firefox
Breaking: The ultimate "it's complicated" relationship status! After decades of Linux vs Windows, Linus Torvalds and Bill Gates finally meet face-to-face for the first time ever. Plot twist: no world domination plans were discussed (that we know of)
linux.slashdot.orgLinus Torvalds Photographed with Bill Gates - for the First Time Ever - Slashdot"The worlds of Linux and Windows finally came together in real life..." writes The Verge:
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates and Linus Torvalds, the creator of the Linux kernel, have surprisingly never met before. That all changed at a recent dinner hosted by Sysinternals creator Mark Russinovich... ...
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Legendary Sound Blaster ISA sound card gets a driver update 30 years later
Tom's Hardware · Legendary Sound Blaster ISA sound card gets a driver update 30 years later — patch squashes first bug report after 25 years
Ngā mihi harikoa ki a koutou, mo te rā whakatā ā-ture o Matariki.
Happy Matariki public holiday everyone.
In Te Reo Māori, #Matariki is the name of a star cluster known in English as the Seven Sisters. Subaru to the Japanese. Pleiades to astronomers, and ancient Greeks and Romans.
For Māori, seeing Matariki in the night sky marks the start of a new year. As winter solstice passes, a time to reflect on the year ended, and envision the year to come.
In that spirit, a little #TechHistory ...
Celebrating FreeBSD Day with a look back at the story behind our iconic BSD Daemon, Beastie!
Dr. Marshall Kirk McKusick walks us through how this legendary figure got its name, debunks the "demon" myth, and brings BSD culture to life with humor, history, and culture gems.
Watch the full video on our YouTube channel: https://youtu.be/bKAp9Wremd0?si=_7QylTMDku8WyXFr
Hack the Planet: 90s Hacker Culture vs. Today's AI Devs
gizvault.comHack the Planet: 90s Hacker Culture vs. Today’s AI Devs - GizVaultExplore our cyberpunk-inspired e-commerce store, where tech enthusiasts and geeks can discover unique products that blend retro aesthetics with cutting-edge technology. Get your hands on the coolest gadgets and gear, handpicked for those who love to tinker and create. Crafted for the U.S. market, with articles that bring you closer to the future of tech.
Just wrote about that legendary 2015 Hacker News thread where everyone got emotional about BeOS 
The OS that was too beautiful for this world: pervasive multithreading, metadata filesystem, perfect multimedia... in the '90s!
But we got Windows because "it's already installed" 
Full nostalgic damage: https://www.desktoponfire.com/haiku_inc/782/the-great-illusion-when-we-believed-beos-would-save-the-world-and-maybe-it-was-right/
Just discovered a second podcast called Decentered (the name of the @wedistribute podcast). Listening to their fantastic interview with @rabble from Nos.social. Where he talks a lot less about the history of Titter, and a lot more about the history of Indymedia, and his more recent work with decentralised social media;
https://decentered.co.uk/building-participatory-media-with-evan-henshaw-plath-aka-rabble/
#podcasts #Decentered #TechHistory #Indymedia #IndependentMedia #decentralisation
Decentered Media · Building Participatory Media with Evan Henshaw-Plath (aka Rabble) – Decentered MediaIn this episode of the Decentered Media Podcast , Rob speaks with Evan Henshaw-Plath , widely known as Rabble , a technologist, activist, and early contributor