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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.
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.
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.
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.
Ray Tomlinson deserves credit for one specific breakthrough: networked email. Same-machine electronic mail existed years before he touched it.
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.