@TwoBitHistory

Entries from the annals of computing history, once every two weeks. (Actually, every four for the foreseeable future šŸ˜ž).

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Joined May 2018
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Michael Wood@_wodin_20 Feb 2021
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@TwoBitHistory in case you haven't seen it before
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The extraordinary power of a computer in 1962

"Speed of calculation of these machines is really quite prodigious"

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Tom Duncalf@tomduncalf22 Jul 2020
Great read (if youā€™re interested in web technologies šŸ˜‚) from @TwoBitHistory on how JSON came to prominence: twobithistory.org/2017/09/21ā€¦

The Rise and Rise of JSON

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I'm taking a break from my Weekly Squeak podcast, so here's something from the archives of my show, "the enthusiastic amateur". It's an interview with the @twobithistory blog, we talk computing history and the stories missing from that history. Enjoy! buff.ly/38qBS0P
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Donā€™t Use the Word ā€˜Didā€™ or a Dumb Anti-Piracy Company Will Delete You From Google torrentfreak.com/dont-use-thā€¦ The reckless grifters at Rightshero are sending fraudulent takedown notices over media that includes the word "did" on behalf of "Dance India Dance." 1/

Don't Use the Word 'Did' or a Dumb Anti-Piracy Company Will Delete You From Google * TorrentFreak

In 2018, the owner of Two-Bit History, a site dedicated to computer history, wrote a successful article about mathematician Ada Lovelace, who some credit as being the first computer programmer....

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TF šŸŒŠ@EthereumFDN16 Feb 2020
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Don't Use the Word 'Did' or a Dumb Anti-Piracy Company Will Delete You From Google * TorrentFreak

In 2018, the owner of Two-Bit History, a site dedicated to computer history, wrote a successful article about mathematician Ada Lovelace, who some credit as being the first computer programmer....

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Simon Carless@simoncarless9 Jan 2020
My latest 'Video Game Deep Cuts' newsletter includes great stuff from @MIDImyers, @KrisLigman, @sinclairtarget: tinyletter.com/vgdeepcuts/leā€¦ Sign up: tinyletter.com/vgdeepcuts
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ā€œSo what really failed, maybe, wasnā€™t iTunes at allā€”it was the implicit promise of Gmail-style computing.ā€ Terrific @yayitsrob piece on the shift from managing digital stuff in the 90s/early-00s (scarce local storage) to today (nigh-infinite cloud storage) theatlantic.com/technology/aā€¦

What the Death of iTunes Says About Our Digital Habits

We started the 2010s obsessed with our electronic hygieneā€”and ended them a nation of digital hoarders. Eleven ideas about the decade that killed iTunes.

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Ars Technica
@arstechnica1 Jan 2020
If you still have some available reading time before work revs up for 2020, we're happy to recommend some @TwoBitHistory trib.al/AWc7ZvO

How much of a genius-level move was using binary space partitioning in Doom?

E1M1, the first level of Doom, was actually brought to you by the US Air Force.

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ilya alexander s.@ialexs23 Aug 2019
Your computer is a very large house. You visit this house every day, and know most of the rooms on the ground floor, but there are bedrooms youā€™ve never been in, closets you havenā€™t opened... /by @TwoBitHistory twobithistory.org/2019/08/22ā€¦ ā€“ at Kota Bandung, Jawa Barat
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With #womenintech trending, we just have to add this to the conversation: Did you know the worldā€™s first programmer was a woman?
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I was TODAY YEARS OLD when I learned that FORTRAN variables were implicitly typed based on their first letter <en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Fortraā€¦> and I-N were implicitly integer (others were real/float) and that's why I've been using i,j,k as for-loop counters for my entire life.

Fortran/Fortran variables - Wikibooks, open books for an open world

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BBC Two
@BBCTwo14 Feb 2019
ICT lessons were VERY different in the 80s. šŸ˜‚ šŸ–„ #BackInTimeForSchool
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Behold Mary Allen Wilkes -- in the early 1960s, she wrote the operating system for the first personal computer. She walked into MIT with no experience; they hired her. Why? Women were considered *naturals* at coding. nytimes.com/2019/02/13/magazā€¦ (From my book CODERS, out 3/26!) 1/x
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CNN
@CNN27 Aug 2018
Katherine Johnson, the woman who hand-crunched the numbers for America's first manned space flight, turned 100 yesterday cnn.it/2wncW9o
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The Weekly Squeak is out! Find out why ad blockers are preventing digital marketers from getting to know their customers. Discover where Vim came from. Plus, there's a special treat for classic Mac fans. @jjn1 @hamletbatista @KathyReid @TwoBitHistory buff.ly/2RAnmLn
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Kevin Werbach@kwerb9 Jan 2019
The forgotten history of RSS, and the unrealized potential of the decentralized Web vision I wrote about 20 years ago in Release 1.0. By @TwoBitHistory on @motherboard. motherboard.vice.com/en_us/aā€¦
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Abhiram R@abhicantdraw27 Dec 2018
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@TwoBitHistory @dhh @generativist @theBekku @wongmjane @lpnotes @chrisalbon @DataIsBeautiful These dudes and ladies gave me most of all the content I consumed and liked over the year :D :) Thank you :)
JC@JamesConlon_26 Dec 2018
Who has made your twitter experience a better one in 2018?
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noone@hanxiaomax25 Oct 2018
Where Vim Came From (The Chinese version ) blog.jobbole.com/114461/ @TwoBitHistory
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They aren't a wizard and a woman. They are Hermes Trismegistus and Ramon Llull: plus.google.com/u/0/11298846ā€¦ It's in archive.org/details/lemoyengā€¦
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Sharmila Sen@_sen_sharmila8 Oct 2018
.ā¦@JoyMLRankinā©ā€™s pathbreaking book comes out today. George Dyson, Maria Klawe, & Reshma Saujani are already full of praise. This oneā€™s gonna be a classic. Order now & revel in BASIC love. ā¦@Harvard_Pressā© ā¦@GirlsWhoCodeā© #ladyscience amazon.com/Peoples-History-Cā€¦
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