The defining moments in computing and video game history — verified, dated, and sourced.
A forensic account of the dot-com boom, its long collapse, and why real innovation coexisted with prices that outran plausible profits.
The 2014 Alamogordo dig recovered cartridges spanning 59 different titles, not just E.T. — evidence of a market-wide inventory purge.
BBSes, Usenet, FTP, and IRC were moving files between strangers a decade or more before Napster's 1999 launch. What Napster actually added.
One is a network of networks from the 1970s-80s; the other is a hypertext application built on top of it in 1990. The difference still matters.
Why Y2K remediation, documented failures, and government testing show the bug was real—and why a quiet January 1 was evidence of preparation, not a hoax.
A field guide to this blog's evidence-first computing history: what belongs here, how sources are weighed, and why popular myths get corrected.
Set up 86Box, PCjs, or MartyPC to recreate the 5150's real hardware — 8088 at 4.77 MHz, floppy-only boot, PC DOS — and feel the 1981 constraints.
Where to legally read the code behind computing history: Netscape 1998, early Unix via TUHS, museum releases like MacPaint, and id's GPL drops.
A practical checklist for verifying tech history claims before repeating them: earliest sources, denials, primary documents, and citogenesis traps.
Run preserved historical software in your browser through archive.org's collections, check provenance metadata, and use emulated originals for research.