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donkeyshit.rocks
The "NT" in Windows NT stands for Ninja Turtles !! #techfacts #historyofcomputing #truth
September 15, 2025 at 5:53 PM
histoftech.bsky.social
Some of the authors are on here, if you want to follow them: @erinmalone.bsky.social
@honghongtinn.bsky.social
@rachelplotnick.bsky.social
@loriemerson.net

#historyofcomputing #sts #criticaldatastudies
September 4, 2026 at 11:26 AM
assosilicium.bsky.social
Le dandy de l'informatique française de 86 pouvait frimer avec un Goupil Club. Boîtier alu, clavier détachable torsadé. Stylé.
Jumeau du Kaypro 2000 américain.

Joli, non ?

A lire : www.silicium.org/index.php/ca...

#RetroTech #GoupilClub #SMT #VintagePC #HistoryOfComputing #kaypro #silicium
Goupil Club et son clavier torsadé détachable. Parce que même en 1986, l'ergonomie et le confort étaient important.
May 23, 2026 at 10:55 AM
magrom.bsky.social
1/31 #WomensHistoryMonth: Evelyn Boyd Granville: mathematician whose work supported early space programs. Proof that foundations matter.
#WomenInTech #STEM #HistoryOfComputing
March 1, 2026 at 4:31 PM
tapuya.org
✆➤ [Calls & Applications]

Position in the History of Computing, Data Science, or Artificial Intelligence, @upenn.edu.
PhD required; historical/ethnographic methods. ✦
Review begins Oct 5, 2026.

🔗 tapuya.org/category/calls-applications/ #AcademicJobs #HistoryOfComputing
September 18, 2026 at 4:02 PM
aberehrlich.bsky.social
Joseph Weizenbaum and left wing criticism of capitalism, war, bureaucracy in Berlin in 1979/80 - one other legacy of the prominent AI scientist @ultrabeige.bsky.social hold an amazing talk about a this certain scene #digitalgeschichte #historyofcomputing #histscitech @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social
November 4, 2023 at 1:18 PM
ekimellnea.bsky.social
How did PCs take over the world? Fire in the Valley breaks down the early battles, bold ideas, and big personalities behind Apple, Microsoft, and the tech revolution.
#BookTokTech #HistoryOfComputing #TechNerd #books
March 5, 2026 at 10:08 PM
dinp.bsky.social
What better way to start than with an interruption? #LivingHistory #HistoryofComputing #HisTech
The picture shows an old microfilm reader that shows a torn image. Only half of the archived text can be seen.
October 22, 2023 at 3:25 PM
ithistory.org
By 1978, leaders from across the computing industry gathered at Rockefeller University to organize and fund our mission. From the start, this was a community effort. For 30 years, CBF was the fund-raising arm of the Charles Babbage Institute at University of Minnesota.
#ITHistory #HistoryOfComputing
March 28, 2026 at 2:16 PM
aberehrlich.bsky.social
Peripheral? About the structural changes in regional settings: start to a conference on contemporary regional history at the HNF in #paderborn What an amazing location at the former headquarter of the Nixdorf Computer company. #digitalgeschichte #historyofcomputing
October 25, 2023 at 8:15 AM
ithistory.org
Over the decades, we built something remarkable:
📋 1,600+ people on our IT Honor Roll
💾 12,000+ entries in our hardware database
💬 1,000+ curated technical quotes
All searchable. All public. Explore at ithistory.org
#ComputingHistory #TechHistory #HistoryOfComputing #DigitalHistory #Archives
March 31, 2026 at 12:10 PM
yoehanee.bsky.social
Just arrived in San Jose for archival research (Mar 9-20)! If you're in the Bay Area -- working on the history of computing, digital art, STS, or the institutional history of technical societies -- I would love to meet for coffee. DM or email: yoehan.oh@yale.edu
#HistoryOfComputing #DigitalArt #ACM
March 10, 2026 at 12:15 AM
ekimellnea.bsky.social
How did PCs take over the world? Fire in the Valley breaks down the early battles, bold ideas, and big personalities behind Apple, Microsoft, and the tech revolution.
#Books #BookTokTech #HistoryOfComputing #TechNerd
Personal Computer History
April 17, 2026 at 9:13 PM
tigertoy.bsky.social
I learned about computers on PLATO at the University of Illinois in the 1970s. We had online communities, hackers, and idiosyncratic versions of email, instant messaging, message boards, and even MMPORGs long before the World Wide Web even existed.

#historyofcomputing

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June 4, 2026 at 8:59 PM
ithistory.org
Our early supporters read like a hall of fame: Ken Olsen (founder of DEC), Joshua Lederberg (Nobel laureate), Martin Goetz (first U.S. software patent), and Gene Amdahl (mainframe legend). They weren’t just donors. They made the history.
#ComputingHistory #TechHistory #HistoryOfComputing #Innovation
March 29, 2026 at 3:15 PM
aberehrlich.bsky.social
Now starting: The final conference of the wonderful project on the "History of AI in Germany" (IGGI: Ingenieure des Geistes – Geistesingenieure) at the Deutsches Museum, Munich. Looking back to four years of research on #historyofcomputing #Digitalgeschichte @dinp.bsky.social #historyoftechnology
December 15, 2023 at 4:11 PM
potato.software
From flawless rocket launches to a 21-second loop that fooled uranium centrifuges - what makes code feel 'sophisticated'? Is it elegance, impact, or deception? Share your take. #Potatosecurity #HistoryOfComputing #Malware #SoftwareEngineering #Stuxnet
December 25, 2025 at 6:52 AM
stevebrodie.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Wonderful article about Tommy Flowers, Post Office engineer, and his crucial role in the history of computing.
#computing #historyofcomputing #bletchleypark
Move over, Alan Turing: meet the working-class hero of Bletchley Park you didn’t see in the movies
The Oxbridge-educated boffin is feted as the codebreaking genius who helped Britain win the war. But should a little-known Post Office engineer named Tommy Flowers be seen as the real father of comput...
www.theguardian.com
October 12, 2025 at 2:44 PM
ekimellnea.bsky.social
💾 You’ll learn about transistors, microchips, programming languages, and how the internet grew from ARPANET to what we know today.
#HistoryOfComputing #InternetHistory #TechBooks
thisgrandpablogs.com/digital-revo...
Digital Revolution Pioneers: Inside The Innovators Book
Discover how digital revolution pioneers shaped tech history in Walter Isaacson's The Innovators, a story of teamwork and invention.
thisgrandpablogs.com
July 18, 2025 at 11:38 PM
vintage.computer
On December 8th, 1864, George Boole, the mathematician whose work, Boolean logic and algebra, laid the foundation for every digital computer, died. A profound legacy from a brilliant mind. #VintageComputing #MilestoneMonday #HistoryOfComputing
A graphic titled “Milestone Monday” in large yellow text against a starry night sky. Beneath it is the date “December 8th, 1864.” On the left is a black-and-white portrait of George Boole, wearing a suit with a bow tie and facing slightly to the right. Below the portrait is a credit line: “Credit Line: AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Portrait_of_Boole.jpg” To the right of the portrait, text reads: “One this day George Boole, the mathematician who pioneered the creation of boolean algebra, the foundation for the binary logic used to make all digital computers, died in Cork, Ireland at the age of 49.” At the bottom is a stylized sunrise shape with the label “vintage.computer.”
December 8, 2025 at 1:00 PM
aberehrlich.bsky.social
Das wäre ein super Projekt! Die Geschichte der Uni-Rechenzentren ist sogar recht gut dokumentiert. Meist schreibt besagter Bernd-Uwe auch eine kleine Geschichte auf. Beim Projekt dürfen wir aber die DDR nicht vergessen: www.cms.hu-berlin.de/de/ueberblic... #digitalgeschichte #historyofcomputing
Geschichte
www.cms.hu-berlin.de
December 30, 2023 at 11:43 AM
The evolution of coding from the era of mainframes to the cloud and AI world of today indicates disruptive change to those who call themselves computer programmers. #computerprogramming #coding #historyofcomputing

www.21stcentech.com/the-evolutio...
The Evolution of Coding from Manual Writing to AI Generation - 21st Century Tech Blog
Go back to the mid-twentieth century and computers filled entire rooms requiring whole teams of programming specialists. Not today!
www.21stcentech.com
August 15, 2026 at 3:54 PM
AI did not appear overnight.
*Machine and the Future of Humanity* traces the path from calculating machines and semiconductors to the internet, automation, and AI—then asks how these technologies may reshape
www.amazon.com/dp/B0HFMJZYBJ
#ArtificialIntelligence #HistoryOfComputing #FutureOfHumanity
Machine and the Future of Humanity: The Calculating Civilization and the Humans Who Keep Questioning
Amazon.com: Machine and the Future of Humanity: The Calculating Civilization and the Humans Who Keep Questioning: 9798192796399: SETA, HIROAKI, KAWATA, YUSHO: Books
www.amazon.com
August 22, 2026 at 2:10 PM
aberehrlich.bsky.social
DIGITAL INEQUALITIES - historicising the changes in the digital age. Do we need #DH for writing about #historyofcomputing? I would say definitively yes! Today starts the workshop of the ZZF project #digineq Looking forward to interesting talks about schools, women and migration/borders in Germany
November 20, 2023 at 12:59 PM