The defining moments in computing and video game history — verified, dated, and sourced.
Internet companies with no profits, and sometimes no meaningful revenue, reached billion-dollar valuations through the late 1990s. The Nasdaq's collapse starting in 2000 erased trillions in value in under two years.
Popular legend treats the Alamogordo landfill as an E.T.-specific burial ground. The 2014 excavation found 59 different game titles among the recovered cartridges — a much broader inventory clearance than the popular story suggests.
Napster gets credited as the technology that started internet file sharing. BBSes, Usenet, FTP, and IRC were all moving files between strangers years — in some cases over a decade — before Napster's 1999 launch.
These two terms get used interchangeably in casual conversation constantly. One is a physical and logical network; the other is a specific application built on top of it, invented years later by a specific person.
Because remediation worked, January 1, 2000 passed quietly, and some people concluded the whole thing had been overblown from the start. The systems that skipped the fix tell a very different story.
This blog covers operating systems and infrastructure in technical depth. This category exists for the events, products, and moments that shaped the industry those systems live in — verified, dated, and sourced.
A complete walkthrough setting up an emulator that recreates the original 5150's actual hardware — the 8088 processor, period memory limits, and PC DOS — to run genuinely original early-1980s software.
A complete walkthrough finding and actually reading the original source code behind major moments in computing history — Netscape's original browser, early Unix, and other codebases released or leaked into the historical record.
A complete, practical checklist for verifying a tech history claim you're about to repeat — because a surprising number of widely-believed stories in this space turn out to be embellished, misattributed, or simply wrong.
A complete walkthrough of archive.org's software preservation collections — running historical software directly in your browser, understanding what's preserved and why, and using it as a genuine research resource.