RetroOct 28Jeff Shrager, Kent Pitman and Claude Code Got Herbert Simon's 1961 Heuristic Compiler Running Again, and It Prints the Code From His 1963 Paper
RetroOct 28The Web's First Famous Photo Was Les Horribles Cernettes, a CERN Office Band That Sang About Physicists
RetroOct 28Space Invaders Speeds Up as You Win Because Its 1978 Code Moved One Alien at a Time, and Tomohiro Nishikado Kept It
RetroOct 28Sun's First Workstation, SGI's First Workstation and Cisco's First Router All Started From One Stanford 68000 Board
RetroOct 28The Trojan Room Coffee Pot: The First Famous Webcam Existed So Cambridge Scientists Wouldn't Climb Stairs for an Empty Pot
RetroOct 28Jan de Jager's Browser Emulator Builds a Whole 486 PC, Motherboard, Jumpers and Plug-In Cards, Then Boots DOOM in One Tab
RetroOct 28Wi-Fi Grew Out of CSIRO Radio Astronomer John O'Sullivan's Search for Exploding Black Holes
RetroOct 28A $15 Thrift-Store TRANZ 330 Credit Card Terminal Now Uses Its Z80 and a GPS to Work Out Where the Planets Are, Then Prints It Like a Receipt
RetroOct 27The Oldest GUI Program Still Running on Windows 11 Is a 1992 NT Beta CD Player That Borrowed the System's C Runtime
RetroOct 27Meatloaf, an ESP32 on a Commodore 64's IEC serial port, loads programs from any URL and presents them as a period floppy drive
RetroOct 27A 1990s St. Louis BBS cropped its borrowed ANSI logon screens to 17 lines and cut off the artists' signatures, and Josh Renaud traced them back
RetroOct 27Gavff Dug Up Nyko's Forgotten 8x Zoom Lens for the Nintendo DSi, Then Pointed the DSi at the Moon
RetroOct 27CuriousMarc taught a 1976 MMD-1 trainer board to pass for an Altair and run Microsoft's first BASIC
RetroOct 27MattKC ran the Philips CD-i off a USB-C phone charger by building a board that asks for 9 volts and flips part of it to the minus 5 volts the console needs
RetroOct 25Encarta 95 Web boots a whole Windows 95 in your browser just to open Microsoft's old encyclopedia
RetroOct 25Hibernate started the morning after Gavin King lost the argument, and it shipped under his employer's package name
RetroOct 23Tiny Computers folds the iPhone Duo into a pocket 1984 Macintosh, Commodore 64 or Windows 95 laptop, keyboard and all
RetroOct 23Kevin Rose Took Digg's Helm in 2010. Bots Put Him Back There in 2026, After He Rebought It With Reddit's Cofounder
RetroOct 23When Apple Passed Microsoft in 2010, Nvidia Was a $9 Billion Graphics-Card Company. Its Gaming Chips Now Make It Worth $5.1 Trillion
RetroOct 23Witchcraft and Alchemy sputtered platinum onto glass with a garage vacuum rig to make a Panaplex-style display
