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 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 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
SecurityOct 29Creeper, the 'First Computer Virus,' Was a Worm, and Reaper, the Program Built to Kill It, Was a Worm Too
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
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
