#ComputerHistory is an active hashtag on Bluesky. In the last 30 days, 15 people shared 25 posts with it — around 1 a day. Activity is down 29% versus the previous week, peaking on Sep 13 with 3 posts.
Ryan Cordell @ryancordell.org
Ok I can share—today MSLIS student Nadja Robot donated a teletype machine to @skeuomorphpress.org’s Undead Media Lab But this is not just any teletype—it’s the one Michael S. Hart used to digitize the Declaration of Independence & Alice in Wonderland—the 1st texts in what became Project Gutenberg
theoffkeybard.com
This Day in History — Microsoft Releases Windows NT 3.5 "Daytona"
On September 21, 1994, Microsoft shipped Windows NT 3.5 — Dave Cutler raced at Daytona, hence the name — and its new TCP/IP stack quietly became the backbone Windows 95 used too.
theoffkeybard.com
This Day in History — The First FORTRAN Program Successfully Runs
On September 20, 1954, the first FORTRAN program ran at IBM — a language John Backus invented because he was, in his own words, too lazy to keep writing programs the hard way.
theoffkeybard.com
This Day in History — The Digital Smiley Is Born :-)
On September 19, 1982, at 11:44 AM, Scott Fahlman posted :-) and :-( to a CMU bulletin board. Guinness calls it the birth of the digital emoticon. He never made a dime from it.
smpl.is
Hackers: The Untold Story of the Original Tech Pioneers
Hackers tells the story of the original tech rebels who shaped computing, driven by passion, skill, and the hacker ethic.
www.jdhodges.com
theoffkeybard.com
This Day in History — ERMA Helps Bring Banking Into the Computer Age
On September 14, 1959, Bank of America accepted ERMA — the computer that processed 33,000 accounts per hour vs. a bookkeeper's 245, introduced by emcee Ronald Reagan.
buttondown.com
Lotus Notes and the dangers of starting from scratch
You either loved it, or were using it wrong.
theoffkeybard.com
This Day in History — The First Working Integrated Circuit
On September 12, 1958, Kilby pressed a switch and a sine wave appeared — proving the first integrated circuit worked, on a sliver of germanium 7/16 by 1/16 of an inch.
theoffkeybard.com
This Day in History — The First Public Demonstration of Remote Computing
On September 11, 1940, Stibitz ran math problems at Dartmouth on a computer 250 miles away in New York — and Norbert Wiener spent the rest of the day at the terminal.
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