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The Really Big Button That Doesn't Do Anything

2007 May 21, 5:05I remember visiting the Really Big Button That Doesn't Do Anything on my first trip to the Internet via my friend's dad's workstation at HP. Good times...PermalinkCommentsinternet humor history

David Rumsey Historical Map Collection

2007 Apr 11, 5:23Historical maps available for Google EarthPermalinkCommentsmap mashup google history visualization reference research via:swannman

History of UTF-8

2007 Mar 30, 1:27The origins of the UTF-8 Unicode encoding.PermalinkCommentshistory encoding unicode ken-thompson utf8

SSRN-Privacy's Other Path: Recovering the Law of Confidentiality by Neil Richards, Daniel Solove

2007 Mar 20, 5:13From the abstract: "...Today, in contrast to the individualistic conception of privacy in American law, the English law of confidence recognizes and enforces expectations of trust within relationships. Richards and Solove explore how and why privacy law dPermalinkCommentslaw privacy confidentiality security legal history article

Medieval Cookery

2007 Mar 6, 12:38Online cookbook of medieval recipes.PermalinkCommentsfood history reference recipes medieval cooking neat-fp

Go To Statement Considered Harmful

2006 Dec 7, 1:15Dijkstra's famous anti-goto paper. I agree with him. Due to goto in BASIC through 3rd and 4th grade I thought goto was a word.PermalinkCommentsarticle history humor language goto code programming dijkstra acm read

The Old New Thing : This might be for real, even though it comes out at 7am

2006 Nov 7, 4:48Readers of Raymond Chen's blog speculate that Raymond isn't real because the blog is too consistent. Funny.PermalinkCommentsraymond-chen humor blog article robot history

Proceedings of the Athanasius Kircher Society

2006 Oct 30, 11:09PermalinkCommentsblog cool culture history humor weird

Microsoft Pulls Prank / Company takes browser war to Netscape's lawn

2006 Oct 27, 1:51PermalinkCommentsmicrosoft netscape history prank internet ie mozilla browser-war article

As We May Think

2006 Sep 27, 5:15PermalinkCommentsarticle blog history read software internet data future predictions

Computing Machinery and Intelligence A.M. Turing

2006 Sep 5, 10:16PermalinkCommentsarticle history information turing alan-turing intelligence ai read

FRONTLINE: the tank man | PBS

2006 Apr 17, 11:24Documentary on the effect of the Tiananmen Square protest on ChinaPermalinkCommentsdocumentary history politics tv video pbs the-tank-man tank-man tiananmen tiananmen-square china culture protest

Larry Osterman's WebLog : Why is the DOS path character "\"?

2006 Mar 27, 11:07PermalinkCommentsblog history programming windows dos back-slash reverse-solidus larry-osterman

Reflections on Trusting Trust

2005 Dec 29, 3:09PermalinkCommentssecurity unix history development hack acm ken-thompson trust

The Free Information Society - Propaganda

2005 Dec 12, 3:44PermalinkCommentshumor web history politics images propaganda art

a brief history of setHomePage()

2005 Mar 28, 10:45PermalinkCommentsreference blog development ie
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