computer history

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How the Screenshot Became One of the Internet’s Most Powerful Tools

06.29.20

By Riccardo Coluccini
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The First Portable Computers Were the Size of an RV

06.12.18

By Ernie Smith
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The Greatest Computer Network You’ve Never Heard Of

11.13.17

By Ernie Smith
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The First Text Adventure Game Ever Is Finally Open Source

05.29.17

By Jordan Pearson
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Jason Scott Is Archiving CD-ROMs and Floppy Discs From Closets Around the World

05.03.17

By Jason Koebler
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The Great Failure of Wang Laboratories, the David to IBM’s Goliath

02.21.17

By Ernie Smith
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This Photo Shows How Computer Chips Were Made in 1975

01.12.17

By Ernie Smith
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How the Commodore Amiga Turned Andy Warhol into a Computer Artist

12.29.16

By Ernie Smith
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Packard Bell Was the King of 90s Computing. What Happened?

12.28.16

By Ernie Smith
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The Year That the Entire Computer Industry Ran Out of Memory

11.26.16

By Ernie Smith
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The Story of Shareware, the Original In-App Purchase

11.01.16

By Ernie Smith
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The Future of the World’s Most Boring Software, the Word Processor

10.10.16

By Ernie Smith

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