Nullbrook Archive

The discoveries of continuations

The rise (and future fall) of Discord (2024)

The Moral Character of Cryptographic Work (2015)

Researchers argue that current mechanisms of control in AI and Big Tech bear striking resemblances to historical fascism

How Markdown took over the world

"HP-UX hits end-of-life today, and I'm sad"

Sad times StackOverflow takes down all its physical servers

50 years of proof assistants

Unix v4 Tape

30 years of <br> tags

They made me an offer I couldn't refuse (1997)

The Late Arrival of 16-Bit CP/M

What Does grantpt() Do?

Who invented the transistor?

What the Internet Was Like in 2003

Web/HTML things to avoid (2017)

UNIX V4 tape from University of Utah

Conditions in the Intel 8087 floating-point chip's microcode

The HTML Elements Time Forgot

Typewriter Plotters (2022)

30 years ago today "Netscape and Sun announce JavaScript"

The original Mozilla "Dinosaur" logo artwork

What happened to Gopher? The Internet we lost [video]

One too many words on AT&T's $2k Korn shell and other Usenet topics

The story of Propolice

Open Source Historical LLM trained exclusively on 19th century text

Total War: Medieval 3 Announced as the 'Rebirth of Historical Total War,' New Total War Game to Be Revealed at The Game Awards

Microsoft makes Zork open-source

When did people favor composition over inheritance?

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