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21. März 2022 von Daniel Annen | 1 Kommentar zu Cool-retro-term: A terminal emulator which mimics the old cathode display
Sample screenshots Get it from GitHub: https://github.com/Swordfish90/cool-retro-term Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30734137
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20. März 2022 von Daniel Annen | Kommentar schreiben
This Does Not Compute (04.0.2022) In the 80s and early 90s, when people needed to make their data portable and a floppy disk wouldn’t do, they often used a SyQuest drive. But in 1994, that all changed.
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History Unix/Linux
19. März 2022 von Daniel Annen | Kommentar schreiben
AT&T Archives film from 1982, Bell Laboratories AT&T Tech Channel (27.01.2014) This 23-minute film about UNIX was designed for students with an interest in engineering, math, computer science or other sciences. The film was made available to the public in December 1982. It covers different ways that UNIX could be employed practically in a computing […]
19. März 2022 / 5. November 2023 von Daniel Annen | Kommentar schreiben
NDC Conferences (31.07.2017) Wait… what? Are there any questions? Isn’t that supposed to be at the end? Not this time. At NDC Oslo 2017, we’re going to turn things upside-down and do the questions right at the beginning. Because, for as long as human beings have existed, we’ve asked questions. Questions about the world around […]
History Programmierung
16. März 2022 / 5. November 2023 von Daniel Annen | Kommentar schreiben
NDC Conferences (26.02.2020) Software and technology has changed every aspect of the world we live in. At one extreme are the ‘mission critical’ applications – the code that runs our banks, our hospitals, our airports and phone networks. Then there’s the code we all use every day to browse the web, watch movies, create spreadsheets… […]
History Tools
NDC Conferences (29.05.2018) Picture the scene: you’re on a train, your phone goes ‘ping’, you take it out of your pocket and hey – someone sent you a message! It’s a video of a kitten falling off a chair! You send back ‘LOL’, you put your phone back in your pocket… but have you ever […]
History Humor Programmierung
15. März 2022 / 5. November 2023 von Daniel Annen | Kommentar schreiben
Dylan Beattie (06.10.2018) A musical parody of Don McLean’s “American Pie” about the history of programming and software development.
14. März 2022 / 5. November 2023 von Daniel Annen | Kommentar schreiben
NDC Conferences (15.02.2022) Software is complicated. Machine learning, microservice architectures, message queues… every few months there’s another revolutionary idea to consider, another framework to learn. And underneath so many of these amazing ideas and abstractions is text. When you work in software, you spend your life working with text. Some of those text files are […]
History Multimedia
2. März 2022 / 23. Februar 2023 von Daniel Annen | Kommentar schreiben
SRF Archiv (28.11.2018) Philips präsentiert den ersten CD-Player. Das neuartige Gerät soll die Schallplatten ablösen. Kurt Schaad lässt sich in der Sendung «Karussell» die zahlreichen Vorteile vom neuen System erklären. [«Karussell» vom 18. Mai 1982]
22. Januar 2022 / 12. November 2023 von Daniel Annen | Kommentar schreiben
By This Does Not Compute (04.06.2021) By the early 1990s, the humble compact cassette was starting to show its age. Electronics giant Sony developed what it believed to be the best successor to tape – but so did a former business partner.
18. Januar 2022 von Daniel Annen | Kommentar schreiben
By Techquickie (22.10.2019) What happened to major computer manufacturers of yesteryear like Packard Bell, Compaq, and Gateway?
History Mac OS
26. November 2021 / 6. Dezember 2025 von Daniel Annen
Hier ist ein Überblick aller Versionen von macOS und OS X, die Apple veröffentlicht hat. Die Liste enthält auch die Code-Namen und in Klammern, falls vorhanden, auch die internen Code-Namen: OS X 10 beta: Kodiak – 13 September 2000 OS X 10.0: Cheetah – 24 March 2001 OS X 10.1: Puma – 25 September 2001 […]
18. August 2020 / 16. November 2023 von Daniel Annen
How all began… 23 years ago: MACWORLD EXPO in San Francisco — January 7, 1997
16. August 2020 von Daniel Annen
So, Krazy Ken bought a NeXTcube. Now what? Today, we’re going to open the system up, try out the NeXTstep OS, and we’ll even measure the cube to see if the rumors are true—is the height 1 millimeter shorter than the other dimensions? Let’s find out…
History Smartphone
3. August 2020 / 3. August 2020 von Daniel Annen
There were dozens of incredible product introductions by Steve Jobs while he was CEO of Apple. Like pulling the iPod nano out of his jeans coin pocket, or sliding the MacBook Air out of a manila envelope. But perhaps the most iconic product keynote he ever delivered was for the original iPhone back in 2007. […]
