The defining moments in computing and video game history — verified, dated, and sourced.
A complete walkthrough of the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine — finding old captures of a specific site, comparing how a page changed over time, and using it as a genuine primary source rather than just a curiosity.
A complete walkthrough getting historical browsers running in a modern environment — through emulation, virtual machines, and preserved installers — to see the actual software behind the browser wars firsthand.
Because remediation worked, January 1, 2000 passed quietly, and some people concluded the whole thing had been overblown from the start. The systems that skipped the fix tell a very different story.
These two terms get used interchangeably in casual conversation constantly. One is a physical and logical network; the other is a specific application built on top of it, invented years later by a specific person.
The Apple I and II are often credited as the birth of personal computing. A different machine, from a company most people have never heard of, beat them to market by more than a year.
Ray Tomlinson is credited as email's inventor, and rightly so for one specific, real breakthrough — but the popular version of the story usually skips over the messaging system that already existed before he touched it.
Napster gets credited as the technology that started internet file sharing. BBSes, Usenet, FTP, and IRC were all moving files between strangers years — in some cases over a decade — before Napster's 1999 launch.
Popular legend treats the Alamogordo landfill as an E.T.-specific burial ground. The 2014 excavation found 59 different game titles among the recovered cartridges — a much broader inventory clearance than the popular story suggests.
One of computing's most-repeated quotes has no verified source, and Gates has explicitly and repeatedly denied ever saying it. Here's what the actual paper trail shows — and what he really said instead.
ENIAC is the name most people learn as the first electronic computer. A 1973 federal court ruling says otherwise — and it turned on evidence most retellings of this story leave out entirely.