RetroOct 29Printable Commodore 64 Keycaps Put PETSCII Graphics on Modern MX Keyboards, With a Font Traced From a Real C64
RetroOct 29Rob Pike Says Unix's Hidden Dot Files Came From an ls Shortcut That Skipped Every Name Starting With a Period
RetroOct 29Sudo Began on a VAX at SUNY Buffalo Around 1980 and Passed Through Several Teams Before Todd Miller Took It Public in 1994
RetroOct 29Wi-Fi Stands for Nothing: 'Wireless Fidelity' Was a Tagline Its Own Founder Calls a Mistake, and the Name Nearly Lost to Trapeze
RetroOct 29Windows Uses Backslashes in File Paths Because IBM's DOS 1.0 Utilities Had Already Taken the Forward Slash
RetroOct 29Scott Fahlman invented the :-) smiley at Carnegie Mellon in 1982, three days after a joke mercury-spill warning was taken seriously
RetroOct 29Hedy Lamarr and George Antheil's 1942 torpedo patent hopped frequencies using player-piano rolls synced by clock motors
RetroOct 29HTTP's 418 "I'm a teapot" error comes from RFC 2324, a 1998 April Fools' coffee pot protocol with a WHEN command to stop the milk
RetroOct 29NESPC Turns an Original NES Into a Desktop PC With a Start Menu, a File Manager and Minesweeper
RetroOct 29The QWERTY Keyboard Grew Out of Telegraph Gear Built for Morse Code Operators, Kyoto Researchers Found
RetroOct 29RFC 1149, a 1990 internet spec, sent IP packets on paper taped to pigeons' legs, and a Norwegian Linux group made it work
RetroOct 29Lou Montulli designed web cookies at Netscape in 1994 to stop cross-site tracking, then chose to leave third-party cookies on
RetroOct 29GoldenEye 007, the 1997 Nintendo 64 shooter, now runs natively on Windows and Linux with mouse look
RetroOct 29Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days, the Nintendo DS game, now runs natively on Windows PCs with its cut Stop magic restored
RetroOct 28Nintendo's 1985 NES Test-Market Warehouse in Hackensack, New Jersey, Is Still Standing, and Three NES Historians Found It
RetroOct 28Panzer Dragoon Saga, Sega Saturn's Four-Disc RPG, Now Runs Natively on Windows PCs in Widescreen, Built From Your Own Discs
RetroOct 28Mike Muuss Named Ping After the Sound Sonar Makes and Wrote It in One Night in December 1983
RetroOct 28John Tukey Suggested the Word "Bit" to Claude Shannon and Printed the Earliest Known "Software" in 1958
RetroOct 28Grep Is Named After the Ed Editor Command g/re/p, and Ken Thompson Built It in About an Hour
RetroOct 28B3ta Cofounder Rob Manuel Drew 81 Jokes Using Only the ZX81's 64 Characters, and Put Them in a 240-Page Hardback
RetroOct 28eBay's First Sale Was Pierre Omidyar's Broken $30 Laser Pointer, and a Buyer Paid $14.83 for It
