The Rich History of Ham Radio Culture
Drawing on a wealth of personal accounts found in magazines, newsletters, and trade journals, historian Kristen Haring provides an inside look at ham radio culture and its impact on hobbyists’ lives. Source: Flickr By: Kristen Haring Every night thousands of men retreat to radio stations elaborately outfitted in suburban basements or tucked into closets of […]
The History of Machine Learning in Trackmania
The Goal Trackmania (2020) is a racing game, created by Nadeo and released by Ubisoft, in which players drive a car from a start to a finish through a fixed number of checkpoints, and aim to do so as quickly as possible. The largest regular event in the game is Cup of the Day (CotD), […]
The History of ”The Rule of Thirds”
BIBLIOGRAPHY Adams, Ansel. “Geometrical Approach to Composition.” In The Encyclopedia of Photography: The Complete Photographer: The Comprehensive Guide and Reference for All Photographers, edited by Willard D. Morgan, vol. 9. New York: Grestone Press, 1974. “A Name For It,” Aperture, Winter 1955. Cartier-Bresson, Henri. The Decisive Moment. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1952. Cartier-Bresson, Henri. […]
The History of DR DOS
Digital Research Inc had been founded to sell CP/M in 1976 by Gary and Dorothy Kildall. The operating system quickly became the defacto for any computer built around either the Intel 8080 or Intel Z80 microprocessors, and it even became popular on the Apple II through the Microsoft SoftCard. With the transition to sixteen bit […]
History of the Paper Clip (2016)
Paper Clips What counts as a paper clip? For purposes of the discussion and timeline presented here, a paper clip is a flat or nearly flat piece of metal that slides over an edge of a set of papers and holds the papers together without being bent or pinched by the user and without […]
The history of ’OK’ (2023)
Before we get to the fateful date of March 21, 1839, let’s tip our hats one more time to Allen Walker Read, the man who solved the mystery of OK’s origins. Keep in mind that Read was working in the 1960s, decades before searchable digital newspaper archives. ”Read must have spent hundreds of hours digging […]
A History of C Compilers – Part 1: Performance, Portability and Freedom
The first part of a whistle stop tour of the history of C compilers. Also GNU/Linux, dragons and lots of architectures! The economic advantages of portability are very great. In many segments of the computer industry, the dominant cost is development and maintenance of software. Dennis Ritchie and Stephen Johnson 1978 … many insist that […]
A History of Source Control Systems: SCCS and RCS
Source Control Management (SCM) Systems, have a long and rich history. As the systems evolved, so have their concepts, use cases and adoption over time. While SCMs are ubiquitous in modern software development, they have been fairly novel in the 80s and 90s, and arguable it took the rise of Git and Github for them […]
A History of the TTY
It’s one of those anachronisms that is deeply embedded in modern technology. From cloud operator servers to embedded controllers in appliances, there must be uncountable devices that think they are connected to a TTY. I will omit the many interesting details of the Linux terminal infrastructure here, as it could easily fill its own article. […]
History Is Written by the Losers
This post was originally published as part of the Thucydides Roundtable project over at Zenpundit. I encourage you to read all of the posts in the roundtable.Meet Sima Qian. I hold him in high regard. You could say that this was a historian with balls. Sima Qian is sometimes called the “Herodotus of the East.” […]