Accidental nostalgia theme!
- Halcyon Days: Interviews with Classic Computer and Video Game Programmers. Did I post this before? (via)
- A History of Early Versions of Adventure. (via)
- Colossal Cave Adventure, linked in comments to the previous.
- A History of Palm, Part 1: Before the PalmPilot.
- “If you’re a fan of something, tell the creator.“
- The One-Second Dash.
- Bus1: a new Linux interprocess communication proposal. Here we go again. (via)
- Bare-metal writing. Important for the collaboration of Jim Henson and Raymond Scott for IBM.
- On the history and justification of the C programming language. (via)
After watching the IBM commercial, I now know where Henson got one of the Muppet old guys in the balcony from :)