Breaking the Bird on HBO Max isn’t just about Elon.
It’s about the messy, world-shaking, and weirdly unprofitable history of Twitter.

Full convo on #AwesomeCast → www.AwesomeCast.com
#TwitterDoc #TechHistory #BreakingTheBird

Freunde der elektronischen Musik kennen Wendy Carlos. Sie veröffentlichte 1968 die Platte "Switched on Bach", auf der sie Bach-Stücke mit einem Moog-Synthesizer interpretiert. Die es damals überhaupt erst 3-4 Jahre gab. Das Computer-Magazin Compute! hat im Heft 01/1986 ein längliches Interview mit Frau Carlos. Nachzulesen beim @internetarchive

Ein paar Seiten MIDI und Frank Zappa sind auch noch mit dabei, enjoy: https://archive.org/details/1986-01-compute-magazine/page/n37/mode/1up #vintagecomputing #techhistory #analogsynth #wendycarlos

AI Fact of the Day...
#AI #Robotics #TechHistory #Innovation #ArtificialIntelligence #ThrowbackTech

Hitting the road shortly for INIT HELLO, the new Apple II conference at the System Source Computer Museum in Baltimore. Fun, retro weekend ahead!

https://init-hello.org

The BlackBerry: A Canadian Tech Revolution

Before smartphones dominated, Waterloo-based Research In Motion (RIM) created the BlackBerry in 1999. It was the first device to combine email, phone, and messaging seamlessly, shaping mobile communication for years.

#Canada #TechHistory #Innovation

https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/blackberry-limited

Matterport walkthrough of the original Microsoft Building 3

https://my.matterport.com/show/?m=SZSV6vjcf4L

The Curious Case of the Unix workstation layout

https://thejpster.org.uk/blog/blog-2025-07-19/

What the Internet Was Like in 1998

https://cybercultural.com/p/internet-1998/

CP/M Creator Gary Kildall's Memoirs Released as Free Download

https://spectrum.ieee.org/cpm-creator-gary-kildalls-memoirs-released-as-free-download

“20 Years at the Edge of Tech and Audio” — Matt Levine interviews podcast pioneer Leo Laporte on the birth of podcasting, the rise of tech media networks and more. Listen here: https://www.theanycast.com/20-years-at-the-edge-of-tech-and-audio-with-leo-laporte/ #Podcasting #TechHistory

It took 45 years, but spreadsheet legend Mitch Kapor finally got his MIT degree

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2025/06/24/business/mitch-kapor-mit-degree-bill-aulet/

Commodore 64 Ultimate

https://www.commodore.net

Hier gibt es doch bestimmt auch Menschen mit Ahnung in Architekturgeschichte: mit welchen europäischen Stadtplanern ab so grob der Gründerzeit bis heute lohnt es denn, sich mal eine Weile zu beschäftigen? #technikgeschichte #techhistory

Desktop Publishing Tools That Didn't Make It

https://tedium.co/2022/10/12/forgotten-desktop-publishing-tools-history/

Congratulations to Ricardo Noronha, PI of the project '#PETROSINES — Peripheral Petromodernity. A Global Microhistory of the Sines Area Project (1971-1999)', one of only six History projects selected for funfing by FCT on its latest call.

We tell you more here: https://ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/ricardo-noronha-petromodernidade/

@histodons
@histodon

Notes on the history of the “map tile” by Ingrid Burrington:

https://placing.technology/notes-on-the-history-of-the-map-tile

Swedish Campground: "There are too many Apples on the screen!" (1983)

https://www.folklore.org/Swedish_Campground.html

#HackerNews #SwedishCampground #Apples #1983 #TechHistory #RetroComputing #Folklore

Nicola Pellow: The Quiet Hero of the Web

At 21, while still a student, she built the first cross-platform browser, letting the web go global. Then she disappeared.

Who remembers her today? Almost no one.

I wrote my longest post since 2016 to honour her and the quiet women who shaped tech.

https://blogs.aashgates.com/index.php?post/2025/07/05/The-Unseen-Pioneer%3A-Nicola-Pellow-and-the-Dawn-of-the-Web