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ChatGPT simulates 1987 BBS System

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Why SQLite succeeded as a database (2016)

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Oldest software system in continuous use

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In the 1990s a piece of Germany’s air traffic control software ran on Emacs

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The long strange trip to Java (1996)

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Image file formats that didn’t make it

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What have we lost? [video]

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The history of UTF-8 as told by Rob Pike (2003)

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In the 90s part of Germany's air traffic control software ran on Emacs

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Guybrush Fact vs. Fiction

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BBS Graphics History: Pretty awesome, until the web showed up

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Error messages in Haiku?

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Bill Joy's greatest gift to man – the vi editor (2003)

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Remembering the LAN

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Why SQLite succeeded as a database (2016)

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Multics: An Ancestor of Unix

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UTF-8 history (2003)

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RIP Graphics (2005-2015)

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Where Vim Came From

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My Delorean runs Perl

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Four DB2 Code Bases?

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A look at my BBS Software from '93

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22 Years of Delphi and It Still Rocks

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How I built the IMDb message boards, in 2001

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Local Area Networking on RS-232

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The most obsolete infrastructure money could buy – my worst job ever

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ANSI Art Collection from Old BBSs

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How I got a medal from the Army for writing code

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How To Make a Quick Buck

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Why we can't process Emoji anymore

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Bill Joy's greatest gift to man – the vi editor

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The Unix-Haters Handbook (1994) [pdf]

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IDEs we had 30 years ago

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What Adrian Did Next – Part 2 – Sun Microsystems (2022)

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What is a hard error, and what makes it harder than an easy error?

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APL at Volvo

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Autogenerating a Book Series from Three Years of iMessages

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The Unix-Haters Handbook (1994) [pdf]

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Emacs used as a message router in Germany's ATC systems in the 1990s (2021)

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