Bruno Pedro
History
2026 (2)
2025 (3)
May 15
Automagically
Feb 11
Interactive computing was more appealing to people than the prior batch paradigm
Jan 8
A visual exploration of technical and social history.
2024 (2)
Sep 18
Found at “howard rheingold’s | tools for thought” on 2024-09-18 15:36:43 +02:00. A few of the pioneers of personal computing who still work …
Jun 4
Found at “Silicon Valley’s Gold Rush Roots—Asterisk” on 2024-06-04 10:16:34 +02:00. In 1855 miners in Grass Valley began a discussion club …
2023 (4)
Dec 15
Found at “Pipe Dreams: The life and times of Yahoo Pipes” on 2023-12-15 15:22:02 +01:00. Sadri built Pipes as a cloud-hosted service …
Jun 26
Everything old is new again. XML is the future.
Jan 20
Found at “The Lisa: Apple’s Most Influential Failure - CHM” on 2023-01-20 14:45:59. What is the Apple Lisa computer, and why was its …
Jan 17
Found at “History of APIs | API Evangelist” on 2023-01-17 11:01:24. History is everything. Understanding where we have come from is …
2022 (4)
Dec 22
Found at “Who Invented the API? | Nordic APIs |” on 2022-12-22 16:42:04. The question of who invented the API is a little like asking who …
Nov 14
Found at “The Age of Social Media Is Ending - The Atlantic” on 2022-11-14 18:30:02. The toxicity of social media makes it easy to forget …
Apr 20
Found at “The Early History Of Smalltalk” on 2022-04-20 16:31:41. Most ideas come from previous ideas. The sixties, particularly in the …
Mar 1
Found at “Olivetti Programma 101” on 2022-03-01 17:01:52. The Olivetti Programma 101 is recognized as the world’s first desktop …