Episode 61 - FRESS and Practical Hypertext
Hypertext has really become a core offering of daily life, and defined the face of the Internet for decades. But the links and formatting we know so well only make up part of the story. Today we are l...
25 Jul 20211h 1min
Bonus Episode - Q&A
It's here! My celebratory question and answer episode! Contains ramblings on my checkered past, why computer history is important, and why FOIA is so cool.
18 Jul 202152min
Episode 60 - COBOL Never Dies
COBOL! Just its name can strike terror in the hearts of programmers. This language is old, it follows its own strange syntax, and somehow still runs the world of finance and government. But is COBOL r...
11 Jul 20211h 8min
Episode 59 - ALOHANET
ALOHANET was a wireless networking project started at the University of Hawaii in 1968. Initially, it had relatively little to do with ARPANET. But that relative isolation didn't last for long. As the...
27 Jun 20211h 4min
Episode 58 - Mercury Memories
This episode we take a look at the earliest days of computing, and one of the earliest forms of computer memory. Mercury delay lines, originally developed in the early 40s for use in radar, are perhap...
13 Jun 20211h 7min
Episode 57 - Simulated Sumeria
Where did educational games come from? According to some, the practice of using games in classrooms started in the early 60s with the appearance of the Sumerian Game. However, the story is more compli...
30 Mai 20211h
Episode 56 - TMS9900, an Alternate Future
The TI TMS9900 is a fascinating microprocessor. It was the first 16-bit microprocessor on the market, it has a unique architecture that makes it well suited to multitasking, and it was on IBM's shortl...
16 Mai 20211h 8min
Episode 55 - Project Xanadu
Project Xanadu, started in 1960, is perhaps the oldest hypertext system. It's creator, Ted Nelson, coined the term hypertext just to describe Xanadu. But it's not just a tool for linking data. Nelson'...
2 Mai 20211h 5min
