The defining moments in computing and video game history — verified, dated, and sourced.
Reconstruct the October 29, 1969 UCLA-to-SRI login from the IMP log, and separate ARPANET's first host message from later Internet myths.
Follow C from Bell Labs and K&R practice through ANSI X3J11, ISO C and C23, including what portability guarantees—and deliberately leaves open.
Trace the NIC host table's scaling failure, Mockapetris's delegated DNS design, the staged 1983–85 migration, caching tradeoffs and later DNSSEC.
How Ethernet moved from a 2.94-megabit coax experiment to switched full-duplex links without depending on collisions forever.
How GNU's freedom-centered movement and the 1998 open-source campaign came to share much software while making different arguments.
How Apple's 2008 SDK and App Store paired native mobile software with code signing, review, global distribution, and platform control.
How Microsoft's $7.5 billion all-stock GitHub acquisition joined developer infrastructure to its cloud strategy—and why trust mattered.
How Netscape commercialized the browser, lost distribution to Microsoft, opened its code, joined AOL, and left Mozilla behind.
How Richard Stallman's 1985 manifesto turned the GNU operating-system plan into an ethical, technical, and economic argument for user freedom.
The Microsoft antitrust case preserved monopoly-maintenance liability but replaced a breakup order with conduct rules, disclosures, and oversight.