Hello friends! I'm starting a little computer history project I think some of you will be interested in. I recently watched a series from The Serial Port on Youtube about the Cobalt Raq and it reignited my interest in late 90's and early 2000's server appliances. The Cobalt line is relatively well known so I went looking to see what else was available around that time and found the Intel Netstructure product line which I was not previously familiar with. I purchased a Netstructure 3110 VPN gateway (very cheap!) to play around with. I don't know what I'll find inside. Maybe I'll find a locked down system that is only of historic interest or maybe I'll find fairly standard x86 hardware I can load NetBSD on. Who know? I can't stand that there so little documentation on these things so I'll be documenting this here and on my new and soon(?) to be revealed personal website. Follow along at #NetStructure3110 if you're interested. I'll post my website when it's ready.
#intel #computerhistory #internethistory

My wife is at the gym. As it's only an hour long class, wait to take her back home. While I wait, I read. Today, continuing Chapter 4 of "Where Wizards Stay Up Late: the origins of the internet" by Katie Hafner. A fascinating book.

#BooksOfMastodon #InternetHistory #computerScienceHistory #KatieHafner #whereWizardsStayUpLate

I like Dave Karpf’s #internetHistory because I lived through it. Nobody today is worried that Microsoft is going to take over the whole internet any longer, despite that fact that the GWBush administration killed the antitrust project just as it was culminating. And people seem to have forgotten Jim Clark, too, one of the most interesting tech leaders, but he came out of a rough background, so I think that doesn’t fit the typical narratives. There’s a lot of detail here.

https://davekarpf.substack.com/p/web3s-fake-version-of-the-history

NCSA Mosaic Turns 20

#Mosaic #WebBrowser #History #ComputerHistory #InternetHistory #Anniversary
https://adrianroselli.com/2013/04/ncsa-moscaic-turns-20.html

RT @WebDesignMuseum@twitter.com

Happy 32nd Birthday WorldWideWeb – the first browser!

On December 25, 1990, at CERN, a British physicist and internet pioneer Tim Berners-Lee created the world's first web browser, called WorldWideWeb.

Try the WorldWideWeb emulator
https://worldwideweb.cern.ch/browser/

#InternetHistory

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/WebDesignMuseum/status/1607026000218447872

«As Zuckerman put it, he had written a single line of code “that made the world a measurably worse place.”»

@clive on how the smallest code can really mess things up, and other tales. #book #programming #InternetHistory #bookrecommendation

https://betterprogramming.pub/tiny-snippets-of-code-that-changed-the-world-fda104afc0d0

«As Zuckerman put it, he had written a single line of code “that made the world a measurably worse place.”»

@pomeranian99 on how the smallest code can really mess things up, and other tales. #book #programming #InternetHistory #bookrecommendation

https://betterprogramming.pub/tiny-snippets-of-code-that-changed-the-world-fda104afc0d0

There is an entire generation of people out there who don't know that Potter Puppet Pals started as a flash animation and that makes me upset. I'm sure the puppets were fine, but the original animations are core memories of my teen years on the internet. #Bother

https://youtu.be/TaJJWN4wenw

#HarryPotter #PotterPuppetPals #Internet #InternetHistory #Millennial

I owe you the source of the #UCLA-#SRI #arpanet "map" 😅
It is now linked at the main bar:
https://hci.social/@mprove/109352793994542689

#internetHistory #DougEngelbart

mapping the #ARPAnet 1969 - 1985
#ChronoLink https://mprove.de/chrono?q=35.45266,-120.78536&z=5.69&t=12&m=XYarpanet1969&o=0.8&d=1&s=1

#internetHistory #communication #infrastructure

this reminds me i should see if I can find any of my old posts from the alt.tv.simpsons usenet group. #internethistory

WWWTXT is a hand-curated selection of public internet posts from 1980-1994. You can follow at:

➡️ @wwwtxt

They are also on a website at https://wwwtxt.org

The posts are curated by @kyraocean

#WWWTXT #RetroComputing #ComputingHistory #InternetHistory #Internet #Culture #InternetCulture #History #Fun #Retro #1980s #1990s

#internethistory
In the early days social and comms was email. Mailing lists, newsgroups and irc. All decentralized… that was seen as the best way at the time. Over time as corps became involved things became more centered not because it was best. But to drive profits and control.

"The digital humanities are up-and-coming, but what's the buzz all about? We talked with historian Valérie Schafer about the challenges and developments of the humanities in an increasingly fast-paced and data-driven world." https://blog.degruyter.com/digital-humanities-a-science-unto-itself-a-conversation-with-valerie-schafer/

#podcast #digitalHumanities #InternetHistory #WebArchive

RT @WebDesignMuseum
Happy 16th Birthday Twitter!

Twitter was created on March 21st, 2006 by Jack Dorsey, Noah Glass, Biz Stone, and Evan Williams, launched in July of that year.

Twitter homepage evolution 2006–2021

https://www.webdesignmuseum.org/timeline/twitter-2006

#Twitter #InternetHistory

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Happy 18th Birthday RSS 2.0! In September 2002 UserLand Software released RSS 2.0. The technology is known as RSS (Rich Site Summary or more often also Really Simple Syndication) belongs to the family of XML formats. https://www.webdesignmuseum.org/web-design-history/rss-2-0-2002
#RSS #InternetHistory

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/WebDesignMuseum/status/1306255311267917826

RT @internetsociety@twitter.com

Way back in 1995 Secure Sockets Layer (#SSL) was introduced by #Netscape to provide authentication for a website and enable an encrypted connection. Today SSL has been replaced by Transport Layer Security (#TLS) #InternetHistory #Encryption

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/internetsociety/status/1276576847476797440