Stories by SeenNotHeard

The Relaunch of the Old West and Why I Chose Vanilla PHP

IBM didn't want Microsoft to use the Tab key to move between dialog fields

San Francisco streets with confusingly similar names

Was Windows 1.0's lack of overlapping windows a legal or a technical matter?

Origin of the rule that swap size should be 2x of the physical memory

How were large Unix installations managed in the 80s/90s?

A surprise with how '#!' handles its program argument in practice

The old church where one trillion webpages are being saved

There's No Rust on This Ironclad Kernel: An OS Written in Ada

Who was "Paul's Method" named after (a.k.a. the MOS 6502 RTS trick)?

Why Unix requires mount points

Univ. of Minnesota seeks photos to archive national parks signs before removal

Neuromancer is in production

I tried to hire a North Korean scammer [video]

The Plot of the Phantom, a text adventure that took 40 years to finish

Microsoft Releases Classic MS-DOS Editor for Linux

What UI first distinguished radio and check buttons with circles and squares?

The initial version of the /etc./magic file used by the file(1) command

A graphical listing of all icons shipped in Win 3.1 PROGMAN.EXE and MORICONS.DLL

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