Aether Mug: The Beautiful Dissociation of the Japanese Language
Ken Shirriff's blog: Iconic consoles of the IBM System/360 mainframes, 55 years old
History Today: William Adams: English Advisor to the Shogun
YouTube: Breathtaking colorized video from 1896 of around the world
OS/2 Museum: The Future That Never Was
Historic UK: London’s Great Stink
It’s a cliché that it takes a lot to rouse the reserved, polite British to action, but during the long hot summer of 1858 it was clear that the time for talking was over. The Mother of Parliaments was deeply offended by the poor personal hygiene of her neighbour, Old Father Thames…
Computers Are Bad: a history of the tty
BBC: Why Julius Caesar's Year of Confusion was the longest year in history
"For the two months of the year when there's no work being done in the field, they're just not counted," says Parish. The Sun rises and falls but, according to the early Roman calendar, no day has officially passed. "Which is where the complications start to come in."
Asterisk: All Aboard the Bureaucracy Train
The United States has the most expensive transportation infrastructure in the world. That’s because we refuse to learn from experts, other countries, and our own history.
Alex Stone: Miracle of Wörgl
The Register: Forgetting the history of Unix is coding us into a corner
Atlas Obscura: When Every Ketchup But One Went Extinct
This is a website recovered from the Wayback Machine.
IEEE Spectrum: The renaming of C-T-R signified the company’s high-tech global ambitions
It’s true that the businesses that formed IBM began in the late 1800s. But it’s also true that a birth occurred in February 1924, with the renaming of the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Co. as the International Business Machines Corp.
Tatu Ylonen: How SSH port became 22