I love it when tech culture gets recursively self-referential.

https://emergingobjects.com/project/the-utah-tea-set/

#UtahTeapot #TechHistory

The adult industry played a significant role in the development of modern technology. It's said that VHS tapes became the dominant home video format in the late 1970s and early 1980s largely because the adult film industry adopted it, which influenced consumers' choice of video players. 📼💻 #TechHistory #AdultIndustryImpact #FunFact

Fun claim via a Facebook short video - How Delta Airlines gamed AT&T billing in the 60s

https://www.facebook.com/reel/239632082224297?fs=e&s=TIeQ9V&mibextid=0NULKw

#telephonehistory #history #techhistory

if you're doing some #RetroComputing and you come across a hardware+OS and you run into difficulty entering dates because of may beY2K or other date limitations, then one trick you can apply is to use dates that are multiples of seven years back in time. E.g. 28 years or 35 years will get you a year that has the same weekdays as this year.
#TechHistory #VintageOperating systems

#TIL that not only was Melon Husk *not* a co-founder of Tesla (which I already knew), but he was also *not* a co-founder of PayPal. He had to buy the X.com domain off PayPal, because the original X.com was failing under his leadership, and merged with another company in a desperate attempt to stay alive. The merged company also failed under his leadership, so he was fired. Peter Thiel took over, and the company was rebranded PayPal. The rest is history.

#TechHistory #PayPal #X

I bought a batch of really cool really old tech buttons, but I don't recognize one. Does anyone recognize the logo on the last one?

They're all really cool! I believe they range 80-90s since Aldus and Orchid both went defunct in the early 90s. I picked them up at a thrift store in Georgia US so I have no context.
#technology #techhistory

Just found this screenshot on my hard drive: Apple.com support website in 1995
#techhistory #apple #history

"Incredible new translation.

Former Sega president Shoichiro Irimajiri recently spoke up about his time at Sega, including:

-Kalinske being asked to resign (!)
-SOA’s financial troubles
-the Saturn design
-the 32X"

https://mdshock.com/2023/07/10/irimajiri-speaks-out-about-the-saturn-the-32x-and-soas-financial-troubles/

#Sega #SegaOfAmerica #ConsoleWars #SegaSaturn #Sega32X #VideoGames #Games #Gaming #VideoGameHistory #GameHistory #90s #RetroGaming #Japan #History #Tech #TechHistory

📖 Numa recensão publicada na Revista Ler História, Marta Macedo considera o livro "Porcos Fascistas: Organismos Tecnocientíficos e a História do Fascismo", de Tiago Saraiva, "um dos mais ambiciosos livros sobre ciência e fascismo editados nos últimos anos".

🔓 Para ler em #AcessoAberto: https://doi.org/10.4000/lerhistoria.10909

#histodons #SciHist #HistoryOfScience #Fascism #TechHistory #HistoryOfTechnology #BookReview #PoliticalHistory

The complex history of the Intel i960 RISC processor

Ken is amazing!

— @kenshirriff

https://www.righto.com/2023/07/the-complex-history-of-intel-i960-risc.html

#TechHistory #i960 #Intel

Happy anniversary iPhone!

On this day in 2007, the iPhone was released! What a magical time it was. Really, it set the smartphone industry as we know it today in motion.

What do you remember about that day? What was your first experience with an iPhone?

#iPhone #Apple #Tech #History #ThisDayInHistory #TechHistory #AllThingsTech

Just published a fresh perspective on #AI & #JobSecurity over at @dev.to. As I unravel the history, it's clear we've seen this fear of #technology replacing jobs before! Rest assured, #AI isn't the monster it's made out to be. Excited to hear your thoughts! #TechHistory #FutureOfWork #ArtificialIntelligence

https://dev.to/scampiuk/ai-isnt-replacing-your-job-trust-me-weve-been-here-before-149p

📖 A new issue of #HoST - Journal of History of Science and Technology is out!

It includes papers on the historiography of paleoart (Victor Monnin), the reception of Information Theory in thermal physics (Javier Anta), and Cândido Baptista de Oliveira’s plan of a National Astronomical Observatory (Millena Souza Farias).

🔓 Available on #OpenAccess: https://sciendo.com/issue/HOST/17/1

@histodons

#Histodons #SciHist #HistoryOfScience #TechHistory #HistoryOfTechnology #ThermalPhysics #Paleoart #Astronomy

A history and deep dive into a little known net work technology, called #Arcnet. A bit cheaper than #Ethernet.
https://youtu.be/Gx0v0CyIps8
used a token star topology rather than hashtag token ring. #Novell pretty much out marketed it with the #NE2000 nic. created by Datapoint/CTC. popular wiz, early micro, computers, and mini computers. Some are probably still in use today on factory floors for automation.
#RetroTech #TechHistory

Ah…. the 'webcam's less than salubrious start in the world…. 😆 ☕️

🔗 https://www.openculture.com/2021/09/the-very-first-webcam-was-invented-to-keep-an-eye-on-a-coffee-pot-at-cambridge-university.html 🔗

#techhistory #history #coffee #webcam

248 bytes issued from the wonderful mind of Woz:
wozmon the 6502 system monitor from the Apple one computer.
https://youtu.be/HlLCtjJzHVI
this video comes from Ben Eater, and the code is been modified to run on his 6502 breadboard computer. #Retro. #1976 #TechHistory.

The weird history of Howe #Apple tried to bury their past and level up to the trillion dollar company they are today. It is the story of the Lisa computer, being buried in the landfill:
https://youtu.be/rZjbNWgsDt8
#Documentary #TechHistory #Mac

Listening to some old school acid music while I work this morning. I enjoy reading interesting stories from the tech world about how product "failures" sometimes get turned into whole new unexpected things by the passionate tinkerers of the world, and this is a good example.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acid_house

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roland_TB-303#Legacy

#electronica #acidhouse #music #synth #techhistory

The CED, RCA'S failed weird, phonograph style video disk system, marketed as select division, and why it didn't take the world by storm:
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLv0jwu7G_DFVP0SGNlBiBtFVkV5LZ7SOU
#TechHistory #video #VCR #Laser disk #DVD
playlist has five videos approximately 20 minutes each.

In 2001 at hurricane electric, these prices were really competitive for a top tier #colocation... For the first 7u (12 in) of rack space...

#TechHistory