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(Actually, every four for the foreseeable future 😞).

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Entries from the annals of computing history, once every two weeks. (Actually, every four for the foreseeable future 😞).

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Another post published! Hope you find the ARPANET interesting, because it seems I'm doing a bit of a series on it. This latest post is a deeper dive into the ARPANET protocols and how they might have influenced TCP/IP. twobithistory.org/2021/03/08/arp…


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The extraordinary power of a computer in 1962



Thinking about getting an ACM membership just to have access to the digital library. I get hit with that paywall when trying to do research pretty often. Is an ACM membership worthwhile? I don't know enough about academic publishing to be sure


Trying to get back on this horse! My latest post is my take (surprising and clever, of course) on why the ARPANET was such an important breakthrough, with a fun focus on the conference where the ARPANET was shown off for the first time: twobithistory.org/2021/02/07/arp…


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Great read (if you’re interested in web technologies 😂) from @TwoBitHistory on how JSON came to prominence: twobithistory.org/2017/09/21/the…


It's been too long, I know, but I finally got around to writing a new post. This one is about how REST APIs should really be known as FIOH APIs instead (Fuck It, Overload HTTP): twobithistory.org/2020/06/28/res…


I wasn't able to work this into my post, but this is a seriously cool guide to ballistics written in 1911 for artillery officers. Includes range tables, chapters with titles like "the trajectory in vacuo," and an appendix on the greek alphabet: archive.org/details/gunner…


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