Hacker News
- The No Symbol: The History of the Red Circle-Slash https://tedium.co/2024/03/09/red-circle-slash-no-symbol-history/ 73 comments
- The Sneaky Standard – Intel PCI Standardization History https://tedium.co/2024/02/09/intel-pci-standardization-history/ 39 comments
- Is Gimp Forever Stuck in the Messy Middle? https://tedium.co/2024/01/22/gimp-image-editor-critique/ 2 comments
- GeoWorks Geos: The Other Windows https://tedium.co/2019/06/20/geoworks-geos-history/ 4 comments
- Why 3M stopped making floppy disks in the '90s https://tedium.co/2023/11/17/3m-floppy-disks-history/ 76 comments
- Discussing CNET’s content-pruning to improve SEO ranking https://tedium.co/2023/08/11/content-pruning-news-websites-is-stupid/ 79 comments
- Self-Host All the Things? https://tedium.co/2023/03/04/self-hosted-saas-app-alternatives/ 288 comments
- The Technorati Generation https://tedium.co/2022/11/04/technorati-blog-search-engine-history/ 13 comments
- The Execution of All Things https://tedium.co/2022/09/09/10-forgotten-executable-file-formats/ 2 comments
- The Original “Universal” Port by Atari https://tedium.co/2022/08/24/atari-2600-joystick-port-history/ 29 comments
- Geoworks and AOL (2019) https://tedium.co/2019/06/20/geoworks-geos-history/ 6 comments
- Respect Your Power Users https://tedium.co/2021/01/27/power-users-history/ 25 comments
- WRT54G History: The Router That Accidentally Went Open Source https://tedium.co/2021/01/13/linksys-wrt54g-router-history/ 319 comments
- How AltaVista, the first good search engine, fell into the digital abyss https://tedium.co/2020/12/15/altavista-history-digital-dot-com-domain-name 228 comments
- Why Apple ditched PowerPC, and what it says about Apple ditching Intel https://tedium.co/2020/06/16/apple-powerpc-intel-transition-history/ 345 comments
- The Aloha point-of-sale system https://tedium.co/2020/02/27/aloha-pos-system-history/ 33 comments
- The charm of buying old workstation hardware on the cheap https://tedium.co/2019/06/04/used-workstation-computer-buying-strategy/ 299 comments
- The Department Store Guitar https://tedium.co/2019/01/24/department-store-guitar-history/ 5 comments
- The Vacuum Tube’s Many Modern-Day Uses https://tedium.co/2018/11/13/vacuum-tubes-modern-day/ 28 comments
- Cherry MX History https://tedium.co/2018/07/19/cherry-mx-keyboard-history/ 129 comments
- The forgotten 80s home robot trend https://tedium.co/2018/05/24/80s-home-robot-history/ 91 comments
- When Discs Die http://tedium.co/2017/02/02/disc-rot-phenomenon/ 47 comments
Lobsters
- 10 Weird HTML Hacks That Shaped The Internet https://tedium.co/2023/11/24/weird-html-hacks-history/ 14 comments css , historical , web
- Plug and Play History: The Design Decision That Made PCs Complicated https://tedium.co/2021/08/04/plug-and-play-peripheral-history/ 2 comments hardware , historical
- App Store Predecessors: Many Early Attempts at Digital Distribution https://tedium.co/2021/06/23/digital-download-app-store-predecessor-history/ 4 comments programming
- WRT54G History: The Router That Accidentally Went Open Source https://tedium.co/2021/01/13/linksys-wrt54g-router-history/ 2 comments hardware , historical , linux , philosophy
- FTP Fadeout https://tedium.co/2020/09/25/ftp-internet-history/ 6 comments historical , networking
- Workplace OS History: IBMs $2 Billion Microkernel of Failure https://tedium.co/2019/02/28/ibm-workplace-os-taligent-history/ 5 comments historical , osdev , practices
- MSX History: The Platform Microsoft Forgot https://tedium.co/2019/01/29/microsoft-msx-history 2 comments historical
- Disc Rot: What Happens When Discs Die http://tedium.co/2017/02/02/disc-rot-phenomenon/ 6 comments hardware
- 10 Weird HTML Hacks That Shaped The Internet https://tedium.co/2023/11/24/weird-html-hacks-history 21 comments programming
- Orion Browser: A Future Best Web Browser for the Mac? https://tedium.co/2022/01/19/orion-web-browser-macos-kagi-profile/ 23 comments apple
- Why Apple Ditched PowerPC, and What it Says About Apple Ditching Intel https://tedium.co/2020/06/16/apple-powerpc-intel-transition-history/ 3 comments hardware
- Why Apple Ditched PowerPC, and What it Says About Apple Ditching Intel https://tedium.co/2020/06/16/apple-powerpc-intel-transition-history/ 97 comments programming
- Microsoft’s Project Photon: A Stunted Effort To Rebuild Windows Mobile https://tedium.co/2019/05/16/microsoft-windows-mobile-photon-history/ 6 comments windowsphone
- Let’s Break Up Adobe -- Why Adobe is too powerful and needs some competition, stat https://tedium.co/2019/03/12/adobe-history-antitrust-concerns/ 8 comments technology
- Workplace OS History: IBM’s $2 Billion Microkernel of Failure https://tedium.co/2019/02/28/ibm-workplace-os-taligent-history/ 10 comments programming
- The Forgotten '80s Home Robots Trend https://tedium.co/2018/05/24/80s-home-robot-history/ 4 comments robotics
- eBook History: Life Before There Was Kindle https://tedium.co/2018/04/26/ebook-history-before-kindle/ 10 comments books
- 3Dfx History: The GPU’s Great Turning Point? https://tedium.co/2018/02/14/3dfx-history-failure/ 15 comments hardware