"That Deep Romantic Chasm": Libertarianism, Neoliberalism, and the Computer Culturehttps://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
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.
CONTENTShttp://esperia.iesl.forth.gr/~kirkinis/html-by-examle/index.htm
writing nonstop about computers since his graduation from Texas A&M University, where he studied English, Management Information Systems, and entirely too much golf. Since tha
Links 29/4/2020: TDE 10th Anniversary, Sailfish OS 3.3http://techrights.org/o/2020/04/29/tde-10th-anniversary/
– Learning about Computers for Kids – Week 27 This is a weekly blog about the Raspberry Pi 4 (“RPI4”), the latest product in the popular Raspberry Pi range of computers. With so m
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25 Years of Linux — so far [LWN.net]https://lwn.net/Articles/698042/
in moving down from minicomputers, had become much more widespread, but it also lost the code-sharing culture that had helped to make it Unix in the first place. The consequences
On August 25, 1991, an obscure student in Finland named Linus Benedict Torvalds posted a messag [...]
Apollo Archivehttps://jim.rees.org/apollo-archive/
Apollo Page Retrocomputers Apollo Collection Typewritten Software - Retrotechnology Research Laboratory These sites were up at one time but were down last time I checked. Apollo D
Frequently asked questions by the Press - Tim BLhttps://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/FAQ.html
it is made from computers and cables. What Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn did was to figure out how this could be used to send around little "packets" of information. As Vint points out,
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