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The Early History of Smalltalk (1993) worrydream.com/EarlyHistory... (news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4997...)
October 6, 2026 at 4:24 PM
seanvoisen.com
I've been researching Smalltalk and adjacent history for a side-project in the evenings and stumbled on this gem in Kay's "Early History of Smalltalk." worrydream.com/EarlyHistory...
The Early History Of Smalltalk
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October 2, 2026 at 9:11 PM
bithistory.bsky.social
The Early History of Smalltalk (1993).. I just started reading this, and I can't stop.

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The Early History Of Smalltalk
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October 6, 2026 at 8:56 PM
lobaorn.bsky.social
O Javismo Cultural surgiu porque Smalltalk (Conversa fiada) não vingou, talvez por causa do nome mesmo, branding ruim. Mas é basicamente o Object original do qual as outras linguagens extends. Tá aqui um artigo do próprio Alan Kay sobre: worrydream.com/EarlyHistory... @jeffquesado.ulivre.dev
The Early History Of Smalltalk
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October 9, 2024 at 11:51 PM
dubroy.com
Thanks to @yoshikiohshima.bsky.social I found the Alan Kay story that this reminded me of.

From "The Early History of Smalltalk": worrydream.com/EarlyHistory...
True to the stages, I "barely saw" the idea several times ca. 1961 while a programmer in the Air b220 file formatForce. The first was on the Burroughs 220 in the form of a style for transporting files from one Air Training Command installation to another. There were no standard operating systems or file formats back then, so some (to this day unknown) designer decided to finesse the problem by taking each file and dividing it into three parts. The third part was all of the actual data records of arbitrary size and format. The second part contained the B220 procedures that knew how to get at records and fields to copy and update the third part. And the first part was an array of relative pointers into entry points of the procedures in the second part (the initial pointers were in a standard order representing standard meanings). Needless to say, this was a great idea, and was used in many subsequent systems until the enforced use of COBOL drove it out of existence.
September 12, 2025 at 5:39 PM
daily-history.bsky.social
An 8 year old coal miner in the early 1900s

#miner #mining #coal #coalminer #childlabor #children #naturalresources #earlyhistory #osha #oshaviolation #yougman #historybuff #history #working
December 11, 2024 at 3:31 PM
hornegger.bsky.social
#FAUcongrats: I happily announce that #FAUprof Doris Mischka is promoted to a full professorship at #FAU. 👏🥳 Doris is an expert of #Prehistory and #EarlyHistory. @UniFAU @ufg_erlangen
December 29, 2024 at 9:46 AM
worldhistory.org
The term "Fertile Crescent," (a term first used in 1916 by #Egyptologist J.H. Breasted), describes a crescent-shaped region spanning the Eastern #Mediterranean, #Anatolia, and #Mesopotamia—often called the "Cradle of #Civilization." 🗺️: Simeon Netchev. #WorldHistory #EarlyHistory #History
Map of the Fertile Crescent highlights areas of early agriculture, cereal domestication, and evidence of wild cereals across the Middle East.
August 17, 2025 at 3:02 PM