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YOU are the Dead Internet.

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

unlike personal computers, are used only for content consumption and give the user almost no power at all. I think in 10 years personal computers will be gone, people will just co

Applying Minilanguages

http://www.catb.org/esr/writings/taoup/html/ch08s02.html

associated with Apple computers. It was cloned under license terms very close to open-source in 1988, and has since become the de-facto standard for printer control under Unix. A

Doom as an Interface for Process Management

https://www.cs.unm.edu/~dlchao/flake/doom/chi/chi.html

our relationship with computers. The application relies on a computer game vernacular rather than the simulations of physical reality found in typical navigable virtual environmen
Doom as an Interface for Process Management

David Zatz: reflections on allpar.com

https://dave.zatz.us/allpar.php

automated memes, and computers generating copy, along with underpaid freelancers from around the world... not to mention cell phones and Facebook, ... nobody has time to read all
David Zatz: reflections on allpar.com

Website Accessibility Conformance Evaluation Methodology (WCAG-EM) 1.0

https://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG-EM/

both the users and the computers used to access the website are known, this baseline may be limited to the operating systems, web browsers and assistive technologies used within t

SegaBase - Genesis & MegaDrive

http://www.atani-software.net/segabase/SegaBase-Genesis.html

generation of personal computers were finally powerful enough to deliver a videogame experience every bit as good as that found in the arcades of the day.  Why not the same f
Sam's ongoing project to document Sega's entire classic videogame libarary

Archive

https://jxself.org/archive.shtml

digital age, our computers have become central to so many aspect of our lives. Yet, how much control do we have over the software that powers these machines? Proprietary software

Kernel Planet

https://planet.kernel.org/

with all other computers in the universe, delegate work to them, and control them (this was very futuristic in 1978, pre-Internet as we know it). Orac was considered the most valu

The Craft of Text Editing

https://www.finseth.com/craft/

predated most personal computers and workstations. There had even been a chapter in an early draft that attempted to prove that it was not possible to implement an Emacs-type text

System Administration Bits of Knowledge

http://www.toad.com/gnu/sysadmin/

my computer despite it. Computers are very programmable and one of the joys of free software is that if you don't like what the software does, you can change it yourself. I didn't

The Boykin Family

http://www.theboykins.com/family.html

for 8086 S-100 based computers. Q-DOS was later renamed to 86-DOS (mostly when people found out that it stood for the "Quick and Dirty Operating System"). SCP sold that operating

Voyager Spacecraft and Fortran 5

http://www.geonius.com/writing/other/voyager.html

the Voyager onboard computers were not programmed in Fortran. My background: I'm a retired software developer. In the 1980s, I worked on the image processing ground system for NAS
Voyagers NOT programmed in Fortran 5


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