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"That Deep Romantic Chasm": Libertarianism, Neoliberalism, and the Computer Culture

https://www.uvm.edu/~tstreete/romantic_chasm.html

of the culture of computers. On the one hand, this essay confirms and elaborates an argument made or suggested by others, notably by Barbrook and Cameron in "The Californian Ideol

History of Computing Science: More Computer Languages

http://lecture.eingang.org/languages.html

is under construction. Computers: From the Past to the Present Languages: More Info: Last modified July 30, 2006 © 1994-2006 by Michelle A. Hoyle
Part of a multipage presentation on the history of computers. This page talks about the development of different computer languages.

Rediscovering the Small Web - Neustadt.fr

https://neustadt.fr/essays/the-small-web/

aviation, music, art, computers. It reminded me that the creative, personal, fun web I grew up with is not a thing of the past. It’s still here in 2020. You just have to know wher
Most websites today are built like commercial products by professionals and marketers, optimised to draw the largest audience, generate engagement and 'convert'. But there is als

Jones on reciprocal multiplication

http://homepage.cs.uiowa.edu/~jones/bcd/divide.html

routines," IEEE Trans. Computers, C-34, 866-869 (Sept. 1985). The primary difference is that Li does not guarantee that the successive approximations of the quotient are all less
A tutorial on using reciprocal multiplication to do division

RISC OS Open: About us

https://www.riscosopen.org/content/about

worked for Acorn Computers. The ROOL team is able to help partners and customers to quickly integrate, optimise and deploy efficient RISC OS based solutions in order to take advan

The Early History Of Smalltalk

https://worrydream.com/EarlyHistoryOfSmalltalk/

interactive time-shared computers, graphics screens and pointing devices. Advanced computer languages were invented to simulate complex systems such as oil refineries and semi-int

Against an Increasingly User-Hostile Web - Neustadt.fr

https://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.

C.J. Cherryh - The Panel Room

https://www.cherryh.com/www/panel_room.htm

pencil's given way to computers, because publishers no longer read crabbed longhand and re-typing is, well, no fun.  The paper's pretty much the same, but now you need a comp

The Zeta Directive [Section 8] \\ Neosynth

https://neosynth.net/fiction/the-zeta-directive-section-8/

Despite relying on computers heavily throughout her daily life, computer science was never really her thing. "I, um, I get that you seem to know a lot more about this kind of
In time, her broken heart would heal stronger than it had ever been before, readjusting to her newfound reality.

List of Polymaths

http://www.johnchiappone.com/polymaths.html

binary system used in computers. In physics he anticipated Einstein; his theory of motion saw space as relative.   ? Sir Isaac Newton (1643?1727) English physicist, mathemati
John Chiappone

Monty Newborn

https://www.cs.mcgill.ca/~newborn/

(at amazon.com) . How Computers Play Chess, with D. Levy, WH. Freeman, NY, 1991 (at amazon.com) . All About Chess and Computers, with D. Levy, Computer Sci Press, Potomac, MD, 198

How They Make a Fake

https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/library/magazine/home/20001015mag-semple.html

this age of high-tech computers, digital scanners and commercial-quality film processors, Colombia's counterfeiters still use old-fashioned mechanical methods to churn out th


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