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/

The History of Unix, Rob Pike - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2NI6t2r_Hs

DrKoop.com: C. Everett Koop’s Unlikely Dot-Com Play https://tedium.co/2018/11/15/c-everett-koop-drkoop-com-history/

The History of the GNU General Public License http://www.free-soft.org/gpl_history/

The Source History of Cat https://twobithistory.org/2018/11/12/cat.html

History of the graphical user interface - Wikipedia https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_graphical_user_interface

A History of the GUI | Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/features/2005/05/gui/

A History of APL in 50 Functions http://www.jsoftware.com/papers/50/

The role of history in a society afflicted by short-termism | Aeon Essays https://aeon.co/essays/the-role-of-history-in-a-society-afflicted-by-short-termism

Transcript of presentation on the History of Forth and aha http://www.ultratechnology.com/ahatalk.htm

Xerox Alto Source Code | @CHM Blog | Computer History Museum http://www.computerhistory.org/atchm/xerox-alto-source-code/

A Short History of Chaosnet https://twobithistory.org/2018/09/30/chaosnet.html

Electronic Tolling History: RFID Keeps Things Moving https://tedium.co/2018/11/08/electronic-toll-collection-history/

Larry “Wild Man” Fischer: An Outsider Icon https://tedium.co/2018/11/06/larry-wild-man-fischer-history/

“Fun Size” Candy Bar History: Lawsuits Were Involved https://tedium.co/2018/10/30/fun-size-candy-history/

The Monster Mash History: More Than a Graveyard Smash https://tedium.co/2018/10/25/monster-mash-history/

Police Training Simulator History: A Parallel Path With Gaming https://tedium.co/2018/10/23/police-training-simulator-history/

Staple History: Maybe Royalty Wasn’t Involved https://tedium.co/2018/10/18/stapler-history-office-supplies/

How Does a Film Become Lost? https://tedium.co/2018/10/11/lost-and-found-film-history/

You Get What You Give: Why the New Radicals Broke Up https://tedium.co/2018/10/09/new-radicals-gregg-alexander-history/

A Short History of Chaosnet https://twobithistory.org/2018/09/30/chaosnet.html

Scale Modeling History: After the Postwar Boom in Tiny Designs https://tedium.co/2018/09/27/scale-model-hobby-history/

Censorship Project + A Brief History of Book Burning – Ex Urbe https://www.exurbe.com/censorship-project-a-brief-history-of-book-burning/

PARALLEL HISTORY! (A text in Japanese.) - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDD3amMV25g

A Response to Yuval Harari’s ‘Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind’ > C. R. Hallpike https://www.newenglishreview.org/custpage.cfm?sec_id=189085

Gutenberg:The History and Philosophy of Project Gutenberg by Michael Hart - Gutenberg https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:The_History_and_Philosophy_of_Project_Gutenberg_by_Michael_Hart

Ghost in a Box: The Haunting History of Television Broadcast Intrusions - The Daily Grail https://www.dailygrail.com/2017/11/ghost-in-a-box-the-haunting-history-of-television-broadcast-intrusions/

Newton Storage History | Dadhacker http://www.dadhacker.com/blog/?p=948