History of Video Games (1940’s – 2010’s) – list of firsts
Everything about history and evolution of videogames! Site Search (use this search bar to find exact word on these pages) (you may need to refresh page to search) This is website about history of video games and video games ”Firsts”. What was first color game? First racing game? First banned game? First 3D Game? You […]
History of Computer Graphics and Animation
Book Description The study of the history of CGI (computer generated imagery) is an important part of understanding the evolution of our discipline of computer graphics and allows us to gain a respect for the key developments that have brought us to the present state. The discipline is so recent in its early developments and […]
History of Web Browser Engines from 1990 until today
History of Web Browser Engines from 1990 until today ← Sitemap Many tried, few remain… Last updated: October 2022 The loss of browser diversity since the rise of Chromium has been greatly lamented. Below you can find a graph that shows the historical and present browser engines (not browsers, but the HTML rendering engines), as […]
A History of Early Microcontrollers, Part 1
Gary Boone, who worked in the Texas Instruments (TI) MOS Department, devised the first chip that can be called a microcontroller because he was becoming bored with his job and in trouble with his family. He’d joined TI in 1969 just when calculator chips were getting to be big business. During the 1960s, electronic calculators […]
The History and rationale of the Python 3 Unicode model for the operating system
Ten years ago, when Python 3.0 final was released, os.listdir(str) ignored silently undecodable filenames: $ python3.0 >>> os.mkdir(b’x’) >>> open(b’x/nonasciixff’, ’w’).close() >>> os.listdir(’x’) [] You had to use bytes to see all filenames: >>> os.listdir(b’x’) [b’nonasciixff’] If the locale is POSIX or C, listdir() ignored silently all non-ASCII filenames. Hopefully, os.listdir() accepts bytes, right? In […]
A History of Encabulation
To celebrate the 100th anniversary of the birth of encabulation – dated from Dr. Wolfgang Albrecht Klossner’s first successful run in that historic barn on the outskirts of Eisenhüttenstadt – this article* collects in one place a number of resources that provide, if not a comprehensive history, at least a catalogue of the major milestones […]
The sad history of Unicode printf-style format specifiers in Visual C++
August 30th, 2019 Windows adopted Unicode before most other operating systems.[citation needed] As a result, Windows’s solutions to many problems differ from solutions adopted by those who waited for the dust to settle.¹ The most notable example of this is that Windows used UCS-2 as the Unicode encoding. This was the encoding recommended by the […]
Unix History
UNIX History Unix History Unix Timeline Below, you can see the preview of the Unix History (move on the white zone to get a bigger image): This is a simplified diagram of unix history. There are numerous derivative systems not listed in this chart, maybe 10 times more! In the recent past, many electronic companies […]
A history of ARM, part 2: Everything starts to come together
Enlarge / The Acorn Archimedes 3000, released in May 1989. reader comments 126 with 0 posters participating Share this story The story so far: At the end of the 1980s, Acorn Computers was at a crossroads. A small team, led by Sophie Wilson and Steve Furber, had invented a powerful new computer chip, the Acorn […]
The history of the domestic cat in Central Europe
Introduction The last two decades have fundamentally changed our understanding of cat domestication, primarily due to advances in palaeogenetic methods. Analyses of archaeological and modern felids have revealed the Near Eastern wildcat (Felis silvestris lybica) to be the common ancestor of all domestic cats (Driscoll et al. Reference Driscoll2007; Ottoni et al. Reference Ottoni2017). The […]