The defining moments in computing and video game history - verified, dated, and sourced.
How commercial Unix fractured across codebases and alliances while POSIX and the Single UNIX Specification preserved portable interfaces.
How USB combined one host-controlled bus, device discovery, shared connectors, power, and classes-and why adoption still took years.
How Usenet propagated discussions without one owner or database-and created enduring norms for threads, moderation, spam, and archives.
How IEEE radio standards, Wi-Fi Alliance certification, unlicensed spectrum, security repairs, and product naming built a mass market.
What PARC actually built, what preceded it, what Apple saw in 1979, and how research ideas became distinct Lisa and Macintosh products.
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.