Blog: #history

6 Aug 2023:

Alan Kay’s objects and arts  also: #education #programming-languages

11 May 2016:

Generator comprehensions  also: #python

6 Mar 2016:

John Higginson Cabot  also: #boston #obituaries

18 May 2013:

Mary Ela’s transitional gravestone  also: #walking

3 Mar 2013:

Letterpress workshop at MassArt  also: #typography

14 Feb 2012:

Linotype  also: #movies #printing

2 Mar 2011:

Boston printing office auction  also: #boston #printing

25 Jan 2011:

Cathode  also: #hacks

4 Jan 2011:

The Aporetic’s living history  also: #blogs #politics

27 Mar 2010:

A real Turing machine  also: #hardware #machinery

26 Dec 2009:

BibliOdyssey  also: #art #maps

10 Sep 2009:

Why numbering should start at zero  also: #comp-sci

25 May 2009:

Mostly wrong  also: #funny #programming-languages

24 Nov 2008:

Print this file, your printer will jam  also: #debugging #postscript #printing

23 Nov 2008:

My oldest code still running  also: #hp #postscript #printing

29 Oct 2008:

The first servers  also: #math

1 Aug 2008:

Stephen Fry and the Gutenberg Press  also: #typography

5 Mar 2008:

Lorem ipsum  also: #design

24 Feb 2008:

Brick Fetish  also: #lego

23 Feb 2008:

HistoryShots  also: #art #blogs

16 Dec 2007:

Ancient history: the Digital logo  also: #design #postscript

24 Sep 2007:

Toy computing devices  also: #comp-sci #lego #toys

3 May 2007:

Making history  also: #hp #tabblo

10 Jun 2006:

Digital Equipment Corporation  also: #me #postscript #work

5 Mar 2006:

Digi-Comp  also: #toys

18 May 2005:

The mermaid  also: #religion

13 Mar 2005:

NYPL Digital Gallery  also: #photos

10 Nov 2004:

The history of UTF-8  also: #characters

25 Oct 2004:

First tuesday after the first monday  also: #politics

19 Oct 2004:

Line of succession

23 Jun 2004:

Boil the ocean  also: #language

15 Jun 2004:

The two things  also: #blogs #management

25 Apr 2004:

General computer corporation  also: #video-games

29 Mar 2004:

Cousins of the presidents  also: #politics

23 Mar 2004:

Bloom filters  also: #algorithms #comp-sci #obituaries

1 Mar 2004:

Loving v. Virginia  also: #law #politics

26 Feb 2004:

Classical computer science texts  also: #comp-sci

21 Feb 2004:

Macintosh folklore  also: #mac

19 Feb 2004:

Black history month  also: #parenting #spotted

1 Jan 2004:

Virtual travelog  also: #blogs

3 Dec 2003:

The museum of HP calculators  also: #hp #hardware #obsession

23 Nov 2003:

Switching sides

13 Nov 2003:

Paul Otlet

17 Oct 2003:

Space cadet keyboard  also: #hardware

13 Oct 2003:

Computer science history  also: #comp-sci

10 Oct 2003:

Henry Ford and the RIAA  also: #business

4 Sep 2003:

Political graveyard  also: #politics

12 Jul 2003:

Pinebank, before and after  also: #photos #walking

30 Apr 2003:

Why Edison lost the record business  also: #business

14 Apr 2003:

Time cover archive

7 Mar 2003:

1944 Dime

30 Sep 2002:

Goering on political dissent  also: #politics

19 Sep 2002:

The first emoticon?  also: #autism

31 Aug 2002:

Richard Napoleon Bonaparte Batchelder  also: #friends-&-family

17 Mar 2002:

What inspired Heinlein?  also: #quotes

10 Mar 2002:

Coliseum Books  also: #books

7 Mar 2002:

My first job ever  also: #work