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HyperCard on the Macintosh
• stonetools.ghost.io
Silicon Valley was consistently 10 years ahead of its time
• old.reddit.com
Auto-grading decade-old Hacker News discussions with hindsight
• karpathy.bearblog.dev
The Lost Machine Automats and Self-Service Cafeterias of NYC (2023)
• www.untappedcities.com
RIP Tetsu Yamauchi (Former Free and Faces Bassist)
• www.loudersound.com
How the Disappearance of Flight 19 Fueled the Legend of the Bermuda Triangle
• www.smithsonianmag.com
Screenshots from developers: 2002 vs. 2015 (2015)
• anders.unix.se
Oldest attestation of Austronesian language: Đông Yên Châu inscription
• en.wikipedia.org
Euler Conjecture and CDC 6600
• fortran-lang.discourse.group
PC-Man and the spark of childhood wonder
• intotheverticalblank.com
Candy Desk
• en.wikipedia.org
Vintage Thanksgiving: Photos Showing How Families Gathered in 1950s and 1960s
• rarehistoricalphotos.com
A Boy They Called a Horse
• biblicalman.substack.com
The VanDersarl Blériot: a 1911 airplane homebuilt by teenage brothers (2017)
• www.historynet.com
Tibetan Declaration of Independence
• thus.org
A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Programming Languages
• james-iry.blogspot.com
Historically Accurate Airport Dioramas by AV Pro Designs
• www.core77.com
Useful Work versus Useless Toil
• www.marxists.org
The Miracle of Wörgl
• scf.green
Middlemen Are Eating the World (and That's Good, Actually)
• inchpin.substack.com
The Strange Afterlife of Hilma af Klint, Painting’s Posthumous Star
• www.newyorker.com
'Complicated' watch from 1907 sets world record at auction
• www.bbc.co.uk
Decoding Leibniz Notation (2024)
• www.spakhm.com
John von Neumann Shot Lightning from His Arse
• www.theintrinsicperspective.com
The teenage David Bowie was already a rebel
• www.bbc.com
Dying Shopping Malls Are the Roman Ruins of Our Civilization
• www.nytimes.com