Stories by shortformblog

How the Association for Computing Machinery Is Opening the Doors to Its Archives

Quantel Paintbox History: Painting with Light

Wordle’s Digital Predecessors: The Evolution of Online Word Games

Jumpstation History: The Internet’s Forgotten Terminology (2019)

Gator Adware History: They Hate When You Call It Spyware

The Eroded Self (2000)

Personal Computing on an Amiga in 2021

Tumblr users lash out against its beta subscription feature

Active-Matrix LCD Panel History: Why American Companies Missed Out

Duracell PowerCheck History: An Energizer of a Battery Patent Battle

The Firmware Update of Doom: Sony’s PS3 OtherOS Debacle

Why John McAfee Was Secretly a Social Media Innovator

An Examination of Quizbowl’s Technological Evolution

NES Advantage History: The Story of the NES’ Defining Early Controller

Test Pattern History: How Color Bars Became a TV Staple

Browse Minimally: A Case for More Minimal Web Browsers

Pac-Man Patterns: The Secret to a High Score

AT&T WorldNet vs. AOL: How Flat-Fee Access Disrupted Dial-Up Internet

Résumé History: A Sudden Rise to Modern Irrelevance

The Inbox Pioneer: This Is True, an Email Newsletter Going Since ’94

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