Goto 10: What ever happened to Modula-2?
Steven T. Hatton: Top-posting is so Microsoftish (2002)
Top-posting, that is, posting ones reply above the quoted text, is a symbol of darkness. It represents evil. To knowingly violate the traditional standard of internet decorum is to willingly partake in the darkness. I therefore must declare that, heretofore, all who top-post with full knowledge of the above recounted history will be declared 'Windoze Users' and shall be shunned by all who honor the good and noble traditions which created the Internet.
Wikipedia: TOFU
Collectors Weekly: Mechanical Movements of the Cold War: How the Soviets Revolutionized Wristwatches
Atlas Obscura: Zwentendorf Nuclear Power Plant
Gregory Anders: State of the Terminal
Tom Van Vleck: Unix and Multics
Multics didn't fail: it accomplished almost all of its stated goals. Unix succeeded too, solving a different problem.
Scientific American: System Analysis and Programming (1966)
This article is about how to get a computer to do what you want, and why it almost always takes longer than you expect. What follows is not a detailed report on the state of the art of programming but an attempt to show how to set about writing a program. The process of writing a program is primarily intuitive rather than formal; hence we shall be more concerned with the guiding principles that underlie programming than with the particular language in which the program is to be presented to the machine.
Digital Cosmonaut: Superfest – The (almost) unbreakable East German Glass
Nature: ‘Shut up and calculate’: how Einstein lost the battle to explain quantum reality
By suppressing questions they considered too ‘philosophical’, post-war physicists created an unquestioning orthodoxy that influences science to this day.
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…