My bookmarks - Seirdyhttps://seirdy.one/bookmarks/
reference , w3c , web A historical style guide for people who make things for the Web, straight from Tim Berners-Lee. Much of it is growing obsolete, but some pages remain applica
Links from around the web, curated and annotated by Seirdy.
How To Ask Questions The Smart Wayhttp://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
“ losers ” (and for historical reasons we sometimes spell it “ lusers ” ). We realize that there are many people who just want to use the software we write, and who have no intere
Web History Project: History Day at WWW6http://1997.webhistory.org/historyday/
here for - what else? - historical purposes. Program * Abstracts * Exhibit The World Wide Web History Project ( www.webhistory.org ) is honored to announce that it has been asked
How To Become A Hackerhttp://www.catb.org/%7Eesr/faqs/hacker-howto.html
22 Oct 2010 esr Added "Historical note". Revision 1.40 3 Nov 2008 esr Link fixes. Revision 1.39 14 Aug 2008 esr Link fixes. Revision 1.38 8 Jan 2008 esr Deprecate Java as a langua
Bob Eager's web pageshttp://www.bobeager.uk/
are some interesting historical details. The funeral of Lord Grimond This is a short piece about my attendance at the funeral of Lord ("Jo") Grimond, who was Chancellor
Intense World: Some Further Ruminationshttp://koshka.love/autism/intense-world-thoughts.html
the topic of suspected historical autistic people to further back this claim up, but the neurotype could well date back into prehistory for all anyone knows, as interesting argume
An Actually Autistic adult's thoughts on redefining the autism spectrum via the lens of the Intense World theory.
Reasoning about the Manned Space Programhttps://www.billdietrich.me/ReasonMannedSpaceProgram.html
looking for data on historical cost to orbit over last 50 years or so.] Some say cost-to-orbit is not a major problem: From /u/ethan829 on reddit: I'm not sure how you got the ide
My reasoning about the Manned Space Program and space exploration
Computer Architecture History / CPU History -- Mark Smothermanhttps://people.computing.clemson.edu/~mark/hist.html
Selected Historical Computer Designs Welcome to a gallery of fascinating machine designs! I want to collect here information on historical firsts and on important machines that ar
2blowhards.com: Federal Aid for the Arts?http://www.2blowhards.com/archives/2006/10/federal_aid_for.html
actual perspective. The historical chauvinism (as historians say, "presentism") of the Western progressive-intellectual caste is appalling. For the first time ever they have disco
2blowhards.com - a weblog
Organization Sketch of IBM Stretch -- Mark Smothermanhttps://people.computing.clemson.edu/~mark/stretch.html
by Jim Pomerene in "Historical perspectives on computers: components," AFIPS FJCC, 1972, pp. 977-983: Ambitious though it was, the two microsecond cycle [time of memory] fell far
Apollo 11 and Other Screw-Upshttps://www.doneyles.com/LM/Tales.html
of the Apollo flight computers and the lunar landing guidance software. Figure 1: The Lunar Module LM-1, also known as Apollo 5, was a 6-hour unmanned mission in earth orbit for t
historical technical paper
Unfinished Railroads of New York Statehttp://russnelson.com/unfinished-railroads.html
A recent post, in our historical society page, mentioned the Warrensburg and Marshall Railroad, started in 1870, to connect the two named towns. Initial subscription was apparentl
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