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

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

1/31 #WomensHistoryMonth: Evelyn Boyd Granville: mathematician whose work supported early space programs. Proof that foundations matter.
#WomenInTech #STEM #HistoryOfComputing

Story of The First Linked List A Story of Chains and Pointers

💡 Want to know how they solved this, given those limitations?

👉 Read the full story here:
"Story of The First Linked List": priyabrata-paul-blog.hashnode.dev/story-of-the...

#HistoryOfComputing #DataStructures #LinkedList

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

How We Judge ‘Sophisticated Code,’ From Moonshots to Malware The operators at Iran’s Natanz enrichment plant saw 21 seconds of perfect data repeating, a seamless loop of “everything is fine” while centrifuges quietly tore themselves apart. It is a chilling image: code not just stealing secrets or freezing screens, but lying persuasively enough to break metal. Ask a room of programmers about the most sophisticated code ever written and you’ll get answers ranging from elegant one-liners to sprawling operating systems.

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. #Cybersecurity #HistoryOfComputing #Malware #SoftwareEngineering #Stuxnet

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.”

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

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/world/2025/o...

Wonderful article about Tommy Flowers, Post Office engineer, and his crucial role in the history of computing.
#computing #historyofcomputing #bletchleypark

The "NT" in Windows NT stands for Ninja Turtles !! #techfacts #historyofcomputing #truth

Maths.

Bigraphs.
Special interest anyone? Anyone?
#maths #maths #maths
#nd #neurodiversity #datascience #historyofcomputing

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.

💾 You’ll learn about transistors, microchips, programming languages, and how the internet grew from ARPANET to what we know today.
#HistoryOfComputing #InternetHistory #TechBooks
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Minesweeper
@kyleor.land
newbooksnetwork.com/kyle-orland-... quite interesting and, of course, reminding me of all those frustrating games of minesweeper I have played back in the day #gameshistory #microsoft #windows #minesweeper #booksky #academicsky #historyofcomputing #casualgaming

Mechanical Computation revisited REVISIT SERIES -  An updated post from April 2015 It's of the nature of coincidences (that's another post) that your attention is drawn ...

Updating a post from 2015, I reflect on a coincidental collection of references to mechanical computers: brianclegg.blogspot.com/2025/04/mech... #computing #historyofcomputing #mechanicalcomputers

Bill Gates Looks Back at the Code That Started Microsoft Bill Gates Reflects on 50-Year-Old Code That Helped Shape Modern Computing Half a century ago, a young Bill Gates wrote

From a Dorm Room to a Tech Empire: Bill Gates on His First Code
#BillGates #Microsoft #TechHistory #ComputerProgramming #SoftwareRevolution #PaulAllen #Altair8800 #PersonalComputing #Coding #Innovation #Technology #AI #TechPioneers #WindowsOS #TechAnniversary #50YearsOfMicrosoft #HistoryOfComputing

Geschichte

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

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

50 years since Brian Randell’s “the origins of digital computers”. A seminal work of the #historyofcomputing and technology. Not only the history of digitalization is already going on since a while but also its historiography. #digitalgeschichte blog.hnf.de/die-urspruen...

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

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

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

The picture shows an old microfilm reader that shows a torn image. Only half of the archived text can be seen.

What better way to start than with an interruption? #LivingHistory #HistoryofComputing #HisTech