How Telegraphs and Teletypes Influenced the Computer https://tedium.co/2019/03/14/teletype-computer-evolution-history/

There are three kinds of haunted houses: the return of the repressed (the history-haunted house), the dressing room for werewolves (the house that just makes people crappier), & the house-that-is-monstrous (the amateur architect’s place)

Adobe Antitrust Concerns: Is the Photoshop-Maker Too Big? https://tedium.co/2019/03/12/adobe-history-antitrust-concerns/

List: Revolutionary Quotes From Centrist History - McSweeney’s Internet Tendency https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/revolutionary-quotes-from-centrist-history

GitHub - pirate/ArchiveBox: $ The open source self-hosted web archive. Takes browser history/bookmarks/Pocket/Pinboard/etc., saves HTML, JS, PDFs, media, and more… https://github.com/pirate/ArchiveBox

Acne Medication History: Why Clearasil Was Marketing Gold https://tedium.co/2019/03/05/acne-medication-history-clearasil-oxy-proactiv/

Workplace OS History: IBM’s $2 Billion Microkernel of Failure https://tedium.co/2019/02/28/ibm-workplace-os-taligent-history/

Why Do Americans Love Ice Cubes So much? https://tedium.co/2019/02/26/ice-cubes-history/

A short history of 20th century African-American horror literature | jessnevins.com http://jessnevins.com/blog/?p=842

A Short History of Italian Horror - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJCo35gX7j0

It absolutely shocked me when, in a documentary about their history, Kurt refered to Information Society as ‘disco’, but in retrospect it makes perfect sense: the early 80s was right next to the late 70s, literally.

The Secret History of Dune - Los Angeles Review of Books https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-secret-history-of-dune/

Saved Game History: Battery Backups, Memory Cards, and the Cloud https://tedium.co/2019/02/21/video-game-save-state-history/

A Modern History of Satanic Panic in South Carolina | Features | Charleston City Paper https://www.charlestoncitypaper.com/charleston/a-modern-history-of-satanic-panic-in-south-carolina/Content?oid=26695975

Reese’s Advertising History: Eat Peanut Butter Cups However You Want https://tedium.co/2019/02/14/reeses-peanut-butter-cup-marketing-history/

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Strongly recommend ‘Horror Noire’ for folks who are interested in the history of horror on film. It filled in some big gaps in the timeline for me. It’s available on Shudder, which is also streaming some flicks covered.

Reading computer history reminds me that there was a time in the 1950s and 1960s when ‘person does thing with computer’ was a standard slow-news-day template item instead of a business plan

Con-Culture Experts On the History and Future of Scamming - MEL Magazine https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/con-culture-experts-on-the-history-and-future-of-scamming

’60s Children’s Music: The Appeal for Early Electronic Musicians https://tedium.co/2019/02/05/60s-electronic-music-childrens-music-history/

Screw Standards: Why We Aren’t Happy https://tedium.co/2016/09/15/screw-history-standards/

Suggestion Box History: The Small Data Before Big Data https://tedium.co/2019/01/31/suggestion-box-history/

MSX History: The Platform Microsoft Forgot https://tedium.co/2019/01/29/microsoft-msx-history/

Terrible Stage Banter: Why Many Musicians Stink at Talking on Stage https://tedium.co/2019/01/22/bad-stage-banter-history/

Why Professional Magicians Don’t Like Magic Kits https://tedium.co/2019/01/17/magic-kit-controversy-history/

The Great Chlorophyll Fad of 1952 https://tedium.co/2019/01/15/1950s-chlorophyll-fad-history/

Histories of the Present http://electronicbookreview.com/essay/histories-of-the-present/

Bad idea of the day: Evangelion fanfiction in the form of Kaji’s hand-annotated copy of a Fire in the Valley style popular history of the development of Tokyo-3, casting Gendo as an Elon Musk type figure.

The History of Italian Thrillers’ Ridiculously Twisted Plots | Nerdist https://nerdist.com/giallo-italian-thrillers-ridiculously-twisted-plots/

Brannock Device History: A Machine That Measures Feet https://tedium.co/2019/01/08/brannock-device-history-foot-measurement/

I love books about the history of tech, but no matter how well-researched, they’re typically mostly a documentation of tech’s mythology (or some countermythology). I prefer the countermythographies.

So, I’m working on a fediverse client based on https://web.archive.org/web/20190101185657/https://jfm.carcosa.net/blog/computing/usenet/ ; it’s here: https://github.com/enkiv2/misc/blob/master/fern . It is currently read-only, but it has read history.

I wrote a proposal for a high-performance OSMIC backend: https://medium.com/@/proposal-for-a-high-performance-storage-system-for-osmic-branching-histories-7cb324c7df2d?source=friends_link&sk=40fc22e94810bd20995286d1f8815a6c but it occurs to me that I don’t have a good intro to OSMIC so that’s next.

Workstation History and the Augmented Knowledge Workshop - 1985 (AUGMENT,101931,) - Doug Engelbart Institute http://dougengelbart.org/content/view/112/000/

Finite of Sense and Infinite of Thought:
A History of Computation, Logic and Algebra https://pron.github.io/computation-logic-algebra

Seat Belt History: The Patent That Was Given Away https://tedium.co/2018/12/25/seat-belt-history/

The Tangled History of Weaving with Spider Silk | JSTOR Daily https://daily.jstor.org/the-tangled-history-of-weaving-with-spider-silk/

A History of Flavoring Food With Beaver Butt Juice - MUNCHIES https://munchies.vice.com/en_us/article/a3m885/a-history-of-flavoring-food-with-beaver-butt-juice

Celebrate X-Mas by watching: X/1999, Project X, xXx, xXx II: The Return of Xander Cage, X-Men Origins: Wolverine, X: Night of Vengance, and American History X.

Infomercial Dark Patterns: How the App Store Recreates TV Scams https://tedium.co/2018/12/11/infomercials-history-dark-patterns/

There’s this approach to computing history where we focus on work that looks shallowly similar to current norms, claim that work was ‘prophetic’ or ‘ahead of its time’, & mostly ignore differences & intent except as quirks. Fuck that.

Internet Content Filter History: Filtering Out the Bad Stuff https://tedium.co/2018/12/06/internet-content-filters-history/

Band name of the day: the history of an error

Beyond “Lump”: The Presidents of the United States of America Rocked https://tedium.co/2018/11/29/presidents-of-the-united-states-of-america-band-history/

Processor Socket History: The Upgrade Path is Shrinking https://tedium.co/2018/11/27/processor-socket-history/

History of IRC (Internet Relay Chat) https://daniel.haxx.se/irchistory.html

Hometown Proud: IGA‘s Business Model Brilliance https://tedium.co/2018/11/22/independent-grocers-alliance-history-hometown-proud/

How Marketing and Lobbying Built Thanksgiving Traditions https://tedium.co/2018/11/20/thanksgiving-history-corporate-roots/

The Abridged History Of Having Fun With Keyboards - Marcin Wichary - btconfBER 2018 - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3u22w2t0DV4

“Eco Grime” Artists Blend Natural Sounds & Electronics to Depict a Polluted World « Bandcamp Daily https://daily.bandcamp.com/2018/11/13/eco-grime-music-history/