computing-history

Beauty and the Mess - “Performance of the system depends on how the parts fit, not how they act taken separately.”

Legendaarne 1990ndate kooliarvuti JUKU peab olema kasutatav ka aastal 3000!

📊 Fully annotated disassembly of VisiCalc (1979) for Apple II — line-by-line 6502 assembly documentation

What We Lost When Unix Won examines the design decisions that became invisible once they became universal. Lisp Machines, Smalltalk, Plan 9, Oberon, BeOS — serious proposals for what computing could be. This book makes those alternatives visible again and asks what's recoverable in 2026.

Open collection of computing pioneers and their verified contributions—ready to reuse for teaching, timelines, talks, and research. Contributions welcome.

Practicing C from cc4e.com and the 1978 C book

The Calculation Archive is a living museum of digital calculators — from minimal one-button machines to experimental interfaces. Each calculator is preserved as a skinnable software artifact.

Unix V4 (1973) simulation for browser and Node.js - experience computing history from Bell Labs

HTTPreserve Analysis of Million Dollar Web Page

Reconstructing why computers became what they are — through constraints, forgotten technologies, failed designs, and hands-on experiments.

Revive the original Scheme interpreter that was published in the AIM-349 by Sussman and Steele in 1975

A study in solved games: comparing Unix V4's learning tic-tac-toe (1973) with modern optimal implementations

An investigative and technical work on the historic milestone of Deep Blue's victory over world chess champion Garry Kasparov

Demystifying Cloud Evolution provides an overview of cloud technologies, blending historical context with technical insights into Azure’s architecture. It covers capacity management, energy efficiency, and orchestration tools like Kubernetes, with demos and learnings for community reference