The defining moments in computing and video game history — verified, dated, and sourced.
A complete walkthrough of the legitimate ways to experience the games at the center of the 1983 crash and the era around it — official re-releases, subscription libraries, and properly licensed compilations.
A complete walkthrough getting historical browsers running in a modern environment — through emulation, virtual machines, and preserved installers — to see the actual software behind the browser wars firsthand.
A complete walkthrough of the practical steps for personally preserving old floppy disks, cartridges, and software before physical media degrades past the point of recovery — imaging, verifying, and archiving properly.
A complete walkthrough moving from a secondhand claim you've read somewhere to an actual verified fact — court records, SEC filings, contemporaneous news archives, and original announcements, not just another blog post.
A complete walkthrough using patent filings and formal standards documents as primary sources for tracing who actually built what first — the same kind of evidence that settled the ENIAC/ABC dispute in court.
A complete walkthrough preparing for and navigating a real or virtual visit to a computing history museum — what to look for, which institutions maintain the strongest collections, and how to use their digital archives remotely.
A complete walkthrough of the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine — finding old captures of a specific site, comparing how a page changed over time, and using it as a genuine primary source rather than just a curiosity.
IBM built the 5150 quickly, using off-the-shelf parts and an open architecture, expecting a modest niche product. Instead it became the template every PC-compatible computer still traces back to today.
A computer once filled a room and required a specialized staff to operate. The path to a device that fits in a pocket wasn't one invention — it was a compounding sequence of separate breakthroughs across decades.
Less than three years after its landmark IPO, Netscape agreed to be acquired by AOL in an all-stock deal — a merger meant to counter Microsoft that critics immediately doubted, given the two companies' very different cultures.