The Anatomy of a Search Enginehttp://infolab.stanford.edu/~backrub/google.html
As the capabilities of computers increase, it becomes possible to index a very large amount of text for a reasonable cost. Of course, other more bandwidth intensive media such as
What Is The Cloud?http://toastytech.com/about/thecloud.html
mainframes, and minicomputers. What clustering meant is that a single machine node in a cluster could go down, and other machine nodes would take over. End users would still be ab
Building software for yourself with Linus Lee (Changelog Interviews #455)https://changelog.com/podcast/455
is so small, and the computers these days are just so fast that you can kind of store things in normal files. All of Monocle’s search data lives inside a big 50-megabyte JSON. It’
Today we're talking to Linus Lee about the practice of building software for yourself. Linus has several side projects we could talk about, but today's show is focused on L
Canon 161 Desktop Calculatorhttps://www.oldcalculatormuseum.com/canon161.html
going on, large scale computers were available for such calculations, but such computers were very expensive, and weren't easily accessible to the engineers. What Canon needed was
Where Have all the Gophers Gone? Why the Web beat Gopher in the Battle for Protocol Mind Sharehttps://ils.unc.edu/callee/gopherpaper.htm
human communication, computers need a common set of conventions in order to share information. The history of networked computing is rich with stories about developing protocols.
Maruthea (space station or planet or both within space-time vortex)http://www.marvunapp.com/Appendix8/maruthea.htm
race of sentient computers residing on Mars. With the Mysterons preferring strategic assaults to all out attack, the organization Spectrum was tasked defending Earth from their ma
Doom as an Interface for Process Managementhttps://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
What's New! December 1993http://home.mcom.com/home/whatsnew/whats_new_1293.html
texts for humans and computers, has released their 100th e-text: The Complete Works of William Shakespeare . Also of note is their first MIDI file: Beethoven's Fifth Symphony, in
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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Protocol ForHonest Electionshttp://www.thelandesreport.com/ProtocolForHonestElections.htm
voting systems (computers, mail-in, drop box, etc.). STATE ATTORNEYS GENERAL & CANDIDATES can sue in court to stop the use of nontransparent voting systems , as there i
Democracy demands transparency, not trust. Voting by machine, computer, early, mail, harvest, drop box and other nontransparent methods consituties 'de facto' fraud as it is impo
Evolution of the Species (EDI Review 11/93)http://www.epi-centre.com/reports/9311ed.html
larger floppies used in computers. In fact still video cameras produce and record a conventional analogue video signal. What made still video possible was the coming of a solid st
The New York Times: Circuits - Game Theory Indexhttps://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/library/tech/reference/indexgametheory.html
life on powerful modern computers through an emulator known as Mame. A few of the games might give Generation X'ers flashbacks. Subtleties of Governing a Virtual World ( Febr
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