Topic
tech history
- Western Electric Plant
Western Electric Plant. Cicero, IL. Western Electric was the captive equipment arm of the Bell System and produced the majority of the telephones and related equipment used in the U.S. for almost 100 years.
- Early ARPANET Protocols
This was an interesting post with background on the design of the original ARPANET protocols, and the layering architecture developed by its creators. The IMPs (Interface Message Processors) were the key to interconneā€¦
- Hardcore Software
Steven Sinofsky is writing a book on his time at Microsoft and the rise of the PC. He joined Microsoft during its ascendancy in 1989, starting as a software engineer and moving up to leading product on Office for mostā€¦
- How Doug Engelbart Pulled off the Mother of All Demos
This is an oral history of the famous Mother of All Demos, wherein Doug Engelbart unveiled a half-dozen technologies including the mouse, screencasting, the NLS "NLS"), hypertext, windowing, and more. It's an excerptā€¦