Tech HistoryNews 3 min read
The Video Game Market Begins Its Collapse
How oversupply, weak publishing controls, retailer losses, and shifting consumer demand drove the US console market into its 1983–1985 collapse.
#news#video-games#atari
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The defining moments in computing and video game history - verified, dated, and sourced.
Tech HistoryDeep Dive 6 min read
From ARPANET to the Internet: How One Protocol Ate Every Network
Trace ARPANET from NCP through TCP/IP, gateways and the 1983 transition-and correct the myth that one protocol simply swallowed every rival network.
#deep-dive#arpanet#internet
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The Browser Wars: How Netscape and Internet Explorer Fought for the Desktop
Reconstruct Netscape's rise and Internet Explorer's distribution campaign using the Microsoft antitrust record, product history and Mozilla evidence.
#deep-dive#netscape#browser
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No, Bill Gates Never Said '640K Ought to Be Enough for Anyone'
The famous '640K ought to be enough' line has no verified source, and Gates denied it on the record. What the paper trail actually shows.
#fix#myth#bill-gates
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No, Al Gore Never Said He 'Invented the Internet' - Here's the Actual Quote
Gore never said 'I invented the internet.' The exact 1999 sentence, how it mutated within days, and what Cerf and Kahn say his record shows.
#fix#myth#internet
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Correcting the Record: ENIAC Wasn't Legally the 'First' Computer
ENIAC is taught as the first electronic computer, but 1973's Honeywell v. Sperry Rand invalidated its patent - partly over a 1941 visit to Atanasoff.
#fix#myth#history
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Correcting the Record on Who Actually 'Invented' Email
Ray Tomlinson deserves credit for one specific breakthrough: networked email. Same-machine electronic mail existed years before he touched it.
#fix#myth#email
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No, Apple Didn't Invent the Personal Computer
The Apple I and II are often credited as the birth of personal computing. The Altair 8800 beat them to market by more than a year.
#fix#myth#apple
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The Actual Moth in the Machine: Grace Hopper and the First Recorded Computer Bug
What the preserved 1947 Mark II logbook proves about its famous moth, what later retellings invented, and what Hopper actually achieved.
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How to Read and Understand Old Internet RFCs
Find RFCs, decode status and obsoleted-by chains, read MUST/SHOULD normative language, and use the primary specs behind email and the web.
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