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Of all the original games Atari put out for the VCS, Adventure may be the one that most people are familiar with today. Warren Robinett’s third and final VCS game – though seemingly the second to actually be released – … Read more

May 02, 2025 · 22 min read Album art didn’t always exist. In the early 1900s, recorded music was still a novelty, overshadowed by sales of sheet music. Early vinyl records were vastly different from what we think of today: … Read more

In the comments on my recent post on books on the history of maths Fernando Q. Gouvêa jumped in to draw attention to the book Math Through the Ages: A Gentle History for Teachers and Others, which he coauthored with William P. … Read more

Writing a book about the history of CAD is an almost insurmountable task. If we, the editors, engineers, and CAD experts at Shapr3D were to accomplish this task, we’d most definitely fall short of the mark while spending countless hours … Read more

Welcome to the Wiki: Around the World in 380+ Objects[] Welcome to the History 2701 Wiki, created by the students in Prof. Ari Daniel Levine‘s World Civilizations I course at the University of Georgia‘s Department of History. We’ll be exploring … Read more

My VLSI tools take a chip from conception through testing. Perhaps 500 lines of source code. Cadence, Mentor Graphics do the same, more or less. With how much source/object code? – Chuck Moore, the inventor of Forth This is a … Read more

Explore pages in: Alberta’s Rat Control Program How to identify a rat Prevention and control History of the program Introduction to Canada The Norway rat (Rattus norvegicus) is unique because it must live with humans or in their structures. It … Read more