RetroOct 31Brian Eno Made the Windows 95 Startup Sound on a Mac, to a Brief That Ended "It Must Be Three and a Quarter Seconds Long"
RetroOct 31Commodore's 1600 VICmodem Was the First Modem Under $100, and You Dialed by Hand, Then Plugged In the Handset Cord
RetroOct 31Undo Is Z Because Cut-and-Paste Pioneer Larry Tesler Picked It for the Apple Lisa, and Its Zigzag Reads as Do, Undo, Redo
RetroOct 31Email Addresses Use @ Because Ray Tomlinson's 1971 Terminals Had About a Dozen Punctuation Marks, and Only @ Meant 'At'
RetroOct 31Ethernet Is Named After the Luminiferous Ether, an Invisible Medium Einstein Called Superfluous in 1905
RetroOct 31The Word "Pixel" Was First Printed in 1965 by a JPL Engineer Processing Space-Probe Photos
