Net.Legends.FAQ (Noticeable Phenomena Of UseNet) Part 1/4https://www.linux.it/~md/usenet/legends1.html
alt.folklore.computers, and alt.usenet.kooks ... Have Fun! Disclaimer(s): *Since* these are in fact net.*legends*, not much of a real attempt to verify that these people actually
We Need to Bring Back Webrings | Lobstershttps://lobste.rs/s/foo1n7/we_need_bring_back_webrings
like me miss is that computers and the Internet don't have the same emotional place in the minds of Gen Z. For us, it was the future. Something the previous generation didn't unde
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The Gopher Manifestohttp://27.org/gopher-manifesto/
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25 Years of Linux — so far [LWN.net]https://lwn.net/Articles/698042/
in moving down from minicomputers, had become much more widespread, but it also lost the code-sharing culture that had helped to make it Unix in the first place. The consequences
On August 25, 1991, an obscure student in Finland named Linus Benedict Torvalds posted a messag [...]
Apollo Archivehttps://jim.rees.org/apollo-archive/
Apollo Page Retrocomputers Apollo Collection Typewritten Software - Retrotechnology Research Laboratory These sites were up at one time but were down last time I checked. Apollo D
Participation in the information agehttps://gotze.dk/phd/it.html
Democracy aided by computers, and in particular, computer networks (e.g., the internet) is the subject of many current debates and discussions locally and globally. There are also
EFF's (Extended) Guide to the Internet - Table of Contentshttps://www.whitman.edu/mathematics/eegtti/eeg_toc.html
Art Astronomy Census Computers Disability Environment Entomology Geology Government Health History Internet Israel Japan Music Nature Sports Weather More Gophers Wide-Area Informa
Against an Increasingly User-Hostile Web - Neustadt.frhttps://neustadt.fr/essays/against-a-user-hostile-web/
network that allowed computers around the world to communicate—was already in place but it remained inaccessible to most people. You had to know how to use a local client to conne
We are quietly replacing an open web that connects and empowers with one that restricts and commoditizes people. We need to stop it.
The BFG FAQhttps://www.gamers.org/docs/FAQ/bfgfaq/
performed on Pentium computers running the MS-DOS versions of Doom II and The Ultimate Doom. Tests were done both in single player mode and in 4-player deathmatch mode. Testing wa
Networking software for DOS and Windows 3.xhttp://www.jacco2.dds.nl/samba/dos.html
the network (see which computers are connected to it) at least one computer running Samba, Windows for Workgroups, Windows 95 or Windows NT must be on the network and belong to th
John Gilmore's home pagehttp://www.toad.com/gnu/
the First Conference on Computers, Freedom and Privacy. I remained quite active in EFF, and served on its Board of Directors for decades, until a spasm of political correctness du
Hobbes' Internet Timeline - the definitive ARPAnet & Internet historyhttps://www.zakon.org/robert/internet/timeline/
network of time-sharing computers" TX-2 at MIT Lincoln Lab and AN/FSQ-32 at System Development Corporation (Santa Monica, CA) are directly linked (without packet switches) via a d
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