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The Cursed Computer Iceberg Meme

https://suricrasia.online/iceberg/

and weirdness of computers. hopefully, after reading these articles, you will have learned a lot and will embrace chaos. Blackle Mori ( @suricrasia ) - 2021 Above the iceberg y2k
this is not a hall of shame. the intent is to awaken you to many of the peculiarities and weirdness of computers. hopefully, after reading these articles, you will have learned a l

When PCs Were Micros - The Early Days of Microcomputing

http://rwebs.net/micros/

old days of small computers. Since the text has been OCR'd, you may find some errors or minor gotchas. Feel free to point them out by e-mail. I'm debating even writing a history o
History, literature and articles from the early days of the microcomputer.

Computing

https://www.technologyuk.net/computing/

electronic digital computers owe much to the pioneering work done by individuals like Wilhelm Schickard, a German scholar who built the first mechanical calculator in 1623, and Ch
Web pages covering a broad range of computing topics, including computer hardware, operating systems, computer gaming and the history of computing.

Electromagnetic Theory; Maxwell's Equations; Ivor Catt

http://www.ivorcatt.co.uk/x0620.htm

Transactions on Computers". Ivor Catt    27 June 2010   Second copy sent by email and by airmail to Lombardi on 27 June 2010. Web address altered from http://w

Tunes is a Useful, Not Expedient, System

http://www.madore.org/~david/computers/tunes.html

present-day operating systems. What is wrong with present-day operating systems? Essentially, that they are written, and force programmers to write, at such a terribly low level.
A description of the (hypothetical) Tunes Operating System lang=en

The EBS Authenticator Word List

http://www.akdart.com/ebs.html

for mobile phones and computers .  The US government unveiled a communications system that in case of emergency should soon allow it to send SMS alerts to Americans' mobile p
This is a rare look at an old Emergency Broadcast System (EBS) authenticator word list from the early 1970's, as well as a number ofother historical documents concerning the EBS s

I AM OFFENDED!

https://lukesmith.neocities.org/vids/offended

interwoven systems than computers... and is more immersive. +1 @fia_ruka - 2025-06-16 20:52:46 if i was luke this comment would offend me +1 @starflowie - 2025-06-13 10:52:46 yep!

The Kermit 95 2.0 GUI

https://www.kermitproject.org/k95gui.html

Host computers, in general, are totally ignorant of character sets. They simply store and send bytes blindly. The interpretation is up to the display device, such as a terminal, t

Electricmonk.nl weblog

https://www.electricmonk.nl/log/

to replace it, since computers are throwaway devices now. They’ll fail or become obsolete way before the battery ever dies. However, if the battery dies, your computer will
Ferry Boender's blog

WA8LMF Mobile Ham Radio Page

http://wa8lmf.net/ham/

on home and ham shack computers, Kenwood most likely decided it wasn't worth redeveloping the software for this slow-moving product and and killed it instead. ] About the same tim

unsolicited.html

http://www.kennykramer.com/unsolicited.html

were such a master of computers :-) We really enjoyed the tour and wanted to say thanks again for squeezing us in (the group of 3 that had only one ticket, not the ones from israe

Utilitarian Bioethics

https://www.utilitarianism.com/biotech.html

either. QUANTUM COMPUTERS AND THE FELICIFIC CALCULUS There is a further difficulty with any possible replacement terminology. A strength of classical utilitarianism and the felici


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