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Retro
Nov 5
A $75 game of Space Travel helped push Unix onto a spare PDP-7
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Nov 5
Vint Cerf's Christmas networking RFC ends with an off-by-one index
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Nov 5
A damaged Windows Phone 8 prototype boots again with repaired files and a software GPU
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Nov 5
Windows XP vs. Windows 98: XP's total support run was about 4.4 years longer
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Nov 4
The barcode began with Morse code in sand and a plan to read circles
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Nov 4
Big-endian and little-endian got their names from an argument over eggs
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Nov 4
Lisp’s parentheses stuck after Steve Russell made a paper’s notation executable
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Nov 4
Lorem ipsum borrows Cicero’s pain, but its printing origin still has gaps
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Nov 4
Mac fonts went global because Steve Jobs rejected the commuter stops
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Nov 4
Bill Atkinson improved on Xerox windows without knowing their limit
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Nov 4
make began with programmers debugging fixes they had forgotten to compile
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Nov 4
A PET command decoded MICROSOFT from bytes hidden after the sine table
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Nov 4
Donald Davies called them packets so the network’s pieces wouldn’t become your message
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Nov 4
A GIF royalty announcement helped create PNG in about two months
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Nov 4
IBM’s disk-drive pioneer first caught its attention with a test-grading machine
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Nov 4
Finger’s 1977 status reports told coworkers where you sat and when you last typed
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Nov 4
A Roland owner dumped the early TR-707 firmware nobody could find
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Nov 4
SQL started as SEQUEL, then a trademark issue took the vowels
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Nov 4
Steve Jobs brought Mick Jagger a Macintosh; Jade found the fun in MacPaint
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Nov 4
A librarian’s mousepad helped “surfing the Internet” catch a much bigger wave
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Nov 4
Unix’s spellchecker removed "id" because it kept sheltering a mistyped "is"
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Nov 4
UTF-8’s diner-placemat design had one demand: find your place in the bytes
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Nov 4
Xerox’s laser-printer inventor needed distance from Xerox management
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Nov 4
A Macintosh designer left extra board traces for a solder-in RAM upgrade
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