RetroOct 31A Windows 3.1 User Set Every Color in Control Panel to Black, Then Called Support About a Blank Screen
RetroOct 31Steve Ballmer Wrote the Words on Windows 3.1's Ctrl+Alt+Del Screen, and They Shipped Almost Word for Word
RetroOct 31Pardo and Landau's 1970 Patent Let Spreadsheet Formulas Sort Themselves, and Its Owners Sued Lotus 1-2-3 With It
RetroOct 31Infinite Mac Now Boots BeOS, the 1990s OS Apple Almost Bought, in a Browser Tab, Even the 1996 Build Rigged to Stop Booting in 1997
RetroOct 31A Wii Mod Swaps the 2007 Opera Browser Inside Nintendo's Internet Channel for NetSurf, an Open-Source Browser Updated This Month
RetroOct 30The 1974 TCP Spec, RFC 675, Says "Internet" Only in Its Title and Explains Sockets as a Mail-Order House's Post Office Box
RetroOct 30Internet Pioneer Jon Postel's 1975 RFC 706, "On the Junk Mail Problem," Proposed Letting a Computer Refuse Messages From a Host That Floods It
RetroOct 30C Compilers Still Name Your Program 'a.out' Because Ken Thompson's 1968 PDP-7 Had No Linker
RetroOct 30RFC 1097, a 1989 April Fools' Spec, Let a Telnet Server Flash Hidden Messages for Milliseconds and Planned Morse Code on the Caps Lock LED
RetroOct 30RFC 748, an April 1, 1978 Telnet Spec, Made Servers Ask Your Permission Before Randomly Losing Your Files
RetroOct 30RFC 1925, an April 1, 1996 Internet Memo Filed as Humor, Listed 'You Can Always Add Another Level of Indirection' Among Twelve Networking Truths
RetroOct 30The Video Game History Foundation Posts Colin Williamson's Photos of Japanese Game Culture From 1999 On, When a Working Reporter Happened to Carry a Digital Camera Through Dreamcast-Era Tokyo
RetroOct 30A 15-Year Fan Project Translates Falcom's 1994 PC Engine CD RPG The Legend of Xanadu Into English by Recompressing the Entire Game to Fit in Memory
RetroOct 30Steve Jobs Kept Rejecting a Mac Calculator, So Chris Espinosa Built a 'Construction Set' and Let Jobs Design It Himself in About Ten Minutes
RetroOct 30Rairii Boots Classic Mac OS 7.6 on a Real Nintendo Wii by Forking OpenBIOS for the Console's ArtX Chipset
RetroOct 29Jon Postel Reserved All 16 Million 127 Addresses in 1981, Two Years Before Anyone Chose 127.0.0.1 for Loopback
RetroOct 29SidecarTridge Tested All 1,831 Atari ST Hard-Disk Game Adaptations and Patched 209 to Run From a microSD Card
RetroOct 29The First Unix Pipes Used > Instead of |, and Dennis Ritchie Said a Missing > Created a File Instead of Running the Command
RetroOct 29A 1928 Punch-Card Patent Switched From Round Holes to Oblong Ones So Closely Spaced Columns Wouldn't Tear
RetroOct 29Apple Made Lisa Programmers Report Weekly Lines of Code, So Bill Atkinson Made QuickDraw Six Times Faster and Wrote -2000
RetroOct 29A Botched Server Patch Stopped a University's Email at About 500 Miles, and the Speed of Light Set the Limit
RetroOct 29The Coding Placeholder 'Foo' Started in a 1930s Fireman Comic Before MIT's Model Railroad Club Adopted It
RetroOct 29A Last-Minute Fuel-Valve Change Nobody Told the Software Team About Made Apollo 5's Guidance Computer Shut Down Its Own Moon-Lander Engine
