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created: 2020-04-13
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The Relaunch of the Old West and Why I Chose Vanilla PHP
5 points | 1 comments
IBM didn't want Microsoft to use the Tab key to move between dialog fields
397 points | 240 comments
San Francisco streets with confusingly similar names
29 points | 47 comments
Was Windows 1.0's lack of overlapping windows a legal or a technical matter?
105 points | 82 comments
Origin of the rule that swap size should be 2x of the physical memory
66 points | 76 comments
How were large Unix installations managed in the 80s/90s?
7 points | 5 comments
A surprise with how '#!' handles its program argument in practice
116 points | 107 comments
The old church where one trillion webpages are being saved
3 points | 1 comments
There's No Rust on This Ironclad Kernel: An OS Written in Ada
8 points | 0 comments
Who was "Paul's Method" named after (a.k.a. the MOS 6502 RTS trick)?
2 points | 0 comments
Why Unix requires mount points
2 points | 0 comments
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Univ. of Minnesota seeks photos to archive national parks signs before removal
7 points | 2 comments
Neuromancer is in production
4 points | 0 comments
I tried to hire a North Korean scammer [video]
1 points | 0 comments
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The Plot of the Phantom, a text adventure that took 40 years to finish
191 points | 45 comments
Microsoft Releases Classic MS-DOS Editor for Linux
7 points | 0 comments
What UI first distinguished radio and check buttons with circles and squares?
3 points | 0 comments
The initial version of the /etc./magic file used by the file(1) command
35 points | 15 comments
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A graphical listing of all icons shipped in Win 3.1 PROGMAN.EXE and MORICONS.DLL
3 points | 1 comments
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C64 User Logs into BBS After 39 Years with His Original SX-64
12 points | 1 comments
Did John Lennon think he was Jesus?
1 points | 1 comments
Did missing/corrupt dates in COBOL default to 1875-05-20?
277 points | 499 comments