I might have cleared my open computer-related tabs for once!
- The Connectivity of Things: Network Cultures since 1832. Open access book; order a physical copy if you enjoy it. (via)
- A Brief History of Cyrix.
- Totalisator, mechanical racetrack/betting computers I had never heard of. (video, via)
- A Craving for Calculation. Linked for the of-a-time feel of the pictures.
- Infinite Mac: Macintosh Garden Library. (via)
- tvcon, a Knight TV emulator. Try ‘tvcon -2BCS -c000002 bitzone.sdf.org‘. (from a nonpublic list)
- The Internet Gopher from Minnesota.
- Spell checking in Vim.
- Self-hosted web browser bookmarks syncing.
- Output: An Anthology of Computer-Generated Text, 1953–2023.
- Grim Fandango.
Gopher asking for money too early, thus letting the Web eat its lunch, may be the most quotable example of capitalist mentality ruining things. That web protocols are also infinitely more flexible only cemented Gopher’s fate. (That, and computers becoming absurdly more powerful between 1990 and 1994: hadn’t thought of that angle.) How ironic that modern unofficial extensions are more elegant and useful than Gopher+.