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poly-p-ux. a distro for retired computers

http://www.polypux.org/intro.html

a bit of a lover of old computers. I have an old IBM PC/XT in the closet that I pull out occasionally, I've played a bit with a commodore VIC-20, I've done a little work with a si

https://www.qsl.net/kd4cga/satintro.htm

https://www.qsl.net/kd4cga/satintro.htm

programs on their home computers to predict when and where satellites may be sighted. The relative ease, with which satellites can be tracked now, does not diminish the excitement

Brad Templeton's Home Page

https://www.templetons.com/brad/

Kinnernet, DLD, Computers Freedom and Privacy, Foresight Nanotechnology conference and various others. (I have lots of frequent flyer memberships.) Other interests include music,

Rediscovering the Small Web - Neustadt.fr

https://neustadt.fr/essays/the-small-web/

aviation, music, art, computers. It reminded me that the creative, personal, fun web I grew up with is not a thing of the past. It’s still here in 2020. You just have to know wher
Most websites today are built like commercial products by professionals and marketers, optimised to draw the largest audience, generate engagement and 'convert'. But there is als

An Argument for Web5.0

https://charinusraps.neocities.org/pages/writing/articles/2024-02-20-Web5.0

Unix was born, PDP computers were commonly used, and the first computer games were made on PLATO. Time-sharing was a concept established here too. The average consumer knew nothin

IRC: #boycottnovell @ FreeNode: November 14th, 2008

http://techrights.org/o/2008/11/15/irc-log-14112008/

MinceR well, crApple "computers" are usually bought as room ornaments for gay people Nov 14 17:36 PetoKraus well nice... is there anything he could do? Nov 14 17:36 schestowitz Th
IRC Log for November 14th, 2008

The System of the World Wide Web

https://www.crummy.com/writing/RESTful-Web-Services/system.html

so much that when computers got cheap enough, they took whatever they could find and built a World Wide Web out of it. As it happened, the web faced two main Internet rivals: a pr

Peter Neumann's Home Page

https://www.csl.sri.com/users/neumann/

of the ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy (CCPP), which I chaired since 1985 -- until it was disbanded in 2018 as part of a complete reorganization of ACM committees. (T

Curiosity Blog – Elliot Temple

https://curi.us/

science, math or computers. Hamming seems to assume these things are easy and Tukey wasn't doing them due to ego. Actually, they're skills, and my guess is Tukey didn'
Philosophy blog posts by Elliot Temple about reason, criticism, discussion, and related topics.

Where Have all the Gophers Gone? Why the Web beat Gopher in the Battle for Protocol Mind Share

https://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.

Links 29/4/2020: TDE 10th Anniversary, Sailfish OS 3.3

http://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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The WWW VL: Educational Technology - Educational VR (MUD) sub-page (05-Jan-2000)

https://tecfa.unige.ch/edu-comp/WWW-VL/eduVR-page.html

Network, is a system of computers in the domain musenet.org providing access to Educational MUSEs (Multi-User Simulated Environments), such as MicroMUSE and MariMUSE. It is based


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