Posts Tagged “History”

Thomas Kurtz, RIP November 14, 2024
John Geleynse Retires From Apple (2)November 12, 2024
Netscape at 30 October 18, 2024
A Brief History of Defragging (6)October 11, 2024
Scripting News at 30 October 8, 2024
An Abridged History of Safari Showstoppers (6)September 30, 2024
Snow Leopard at 15 (10)September 4, 2024
The End of Finale September 2, 2024
The Apple IIGS Megahertz Myth (3)September 2, 2024
Marathon Games on Steam (7)August 30, 2024
The NeXT IPO That Never Happened (2)August 27, 2024
The Insane Engineering of the Game Boy August 27, 2024
Susan Wojcicki, RIP August 12, 2024
The Switch From File Paths to URLs (1)August 2, 2024
Steve Jobs: Objects of Our Life July 24, 2024
An Ode to the Volume Swipe July 16, 2024
The Unofficial Apple AI Weblog (3)July 10, 2024
On the Origins of .DS_Store July 3, 2024
Half-Life’s Canceled Mac Port (1)June 26, 2024
The End of ICQ June 3, 2024
The Man Who Killed Google Search (2)May 22, 2024
Emoji History: The Missing Years (1)May 16, 2024
Delta’s 10-Year Journey to the Top of the App Store May 16, 2024
Online Messaging Systems of Yesteryear (1)May 8, 2024
The Apple Jonathan (1)April 22, 2024
Daniel C. Lynch, RIP April 18, 2024
Seven Years of APFS (11)April 3, 2024
Features Lost Across Versions of macOS (25)March 12, 2024
How AirPort Changed Everything (12)March 11, 2024
Flickr and Facebook at 20 (4)February 7, 2024
Tom Dowdy and SimpleText February 5, 2024
The Origin of Comic Sans (3)February 5, 2024
The Mac at 40 (16)January 24, 2024
Niklaus Wirth, RIP (3)January 4, 2024
Doom at 30 January 4, 2024
David Feldman, RIP (1)January 4, 2024
Taligent’s Guide to Designing Programs January 3, 2024
The Original iPhone Demo (3)December 20, 2023
Dave Cutler Interview December 4, 2023
A Short History of Recovery in macOS November 27, 2023
The Myth and Reality of Mac OS X Snow Leopard (11)November 16, 2023
Microsoft Finalizes Activision Blizzard Acquisition November 7, 2023
The History of Cover Flow (5)October 13, 2023
Google at 25 (1)October 2, 2023
Forty Years of GNU and the Free Software Movement (7)October 2, 2023
The macOS App Icon Book (1)September 5, 2023
Apple Discontinues iTunes Movie Trailers App (2)September 1, 2023
John Warnock, RIP (2)August 21, 2023
Fake Steve Jobs and Letters from BILL G August 21, 2023
The iMac at 25 (1)August 16, 2023
Bram Moolenaar, RIP (2)August 9, 2023
Lisa’s Secret Burial August 7, 2023
Textual Paint August 3, 2023
Edward Fredkin, RIP (1)July 20, 2023
Mid-1990s Sega Document Leak (1)July 19, 2023
eWorld Promotional Mailer (2)July 18, 2023
The Disappearance of Classic Video Games (1)July 11, 2023
The App Store Turns 15 (2)July 10, 2023
Ethernet at 50 (3)July 7, 2023
Adobe at 40 (8)July 5, 2023
Elegy for the Native Mac App (4)June 26, 2023
MVC Isn’t MVC June 21, 2023
Apple Execs on Facebook (2011) June 15, 2023
The AARD Code and DR DOS May 24, 2023
The Legacy of BlackBerry and BBM May 16, 2023
Compiler Humor May 4, 2023
Make Something Wonderful April 17, 2023
macOS Cursor Images April 13, 2023
Apple’s Big Gamble: the 6th Birthday of APFS (2)March 30, 2023
The RIAA v. Steve Jobs (2)March 28, 2023
Gordon Moore, RIP March 27, 2023
Rogue Amoeba Historic Screenshot Archive (2)March 6, 2023
CoverSutra Open Source (1)March 6, 2023
The Story Behind Apple’s Newton February 22, 2023
Clascal in the Lisa Source Code (1)February 9, 2023
Lisa Source Code on 40th Anniversary (2)January 26, 2023
Mac 30th Anniversary Icons (6)January 26, 2023
20 Years of Safari (8)January 13, 2023
Carl Hewitt, RIP January 6, 2023
Palm Pilot Emulator (1)November 28, 2022
Fred Brooks, RIP November 18, 2022
Kathleen Booth, RIP October 31, 2022
The Crypto Story (7)October 31, 2022
Apple Mail’s First Importers (1)October 20, 2022
Forty Years of the CD October 20, 2022
The Macintosh Portable Introduction September 23, 2022
The Steve Jobs Archive (2)September 8, 2022
Janet Jackson Music Crashed Laptop Computers (4)August 30, 2022
The Hidden History of Screen Readers (3)August 22, 2022
Mac Folklore Radio on ClarisWorks History August 17, 2022
AMD vs. Intel (9)August 5, 2022
Apple Retail Store Time Machine July 25, 2022
Bluetooth Remains Unusually Painful (4)July 22, 2022
Years of macOS Updates (1)July 19, 2022
CP/M Now Officially Open Source July 15, 2022
CompileIt for HyperCard July 8, 2022
ACM Makes Research Articles Freely Available June 14, 2022
Clarus Is Back in Ventura (1)June 14, 2022
Remembering Apple’s Newton, 30 Years On (7)June 13, 2022
Time Machine Evolution and APFS (13)May 18, 2022
Tony Fadell and “Build” (1)May 10, 2022
Success and Failure at Pebble (1)May 2, 2022
Canon Camera Museum May 2, 2022
Autocorrect Explained: Why Your iPhone Adds Annoying Typos While Fixing Others (7)April 29, 2022
Infinite Mac (1)April 26, 2022
The Story of iBeer April 26, 2022
A Cautionary Tale From the Decline of SourceForge (2)April 22, 2022
A Tour of Apple’s External LCD Displays April 12, 2022
Stephen Wilhite, RIP April 11, 2022
John Roach, RIP April 11, 2022
Charging More for Black Products (9)April 5, 2022
History of Instapaper (1)March 18, 2022
On the Origin of the iPhone March 4, 2022
Emulating 1998-Vintage Mac Compilers (1)March 3, 2022
David Boggs, RIP March 3, 2022
Objective-C Messages to nil (4)February 22, 2022
Randy Wigginton Answers Questions on Quora February 18, 2022
Improving macOS Widgets (25)February 12, 2022
Xcode Through the Years (10)January 29, 2022
Making Mac OS X Unix Compliant Certified (1)January 19, 2022
Updating “Basic Computer Games” January 10, 2022
Every Mac OS Welcome Video (6)January 7, 2022
A Guide to NSButton Styles, 2022 January 7, 2022
Tumblr vs. the App Store (1)December 28, 2021
Design Evolution of the Windows Control Panel December 28, 2021
25 Years of Apple + NeXT December 22, 2021
CT Scans of AirPods December 15, 2021
Abrahams on the Design of Swift (13)December 10, 2021
Cocoa Culture December 6, 2021
William Cook, RIP (5)December 2, 2021
AOL Exploits Bug in Own Software November 19, 2021
First MacPaint and MacWrite Public Demo November 19, 2021
Forgotten Image Formats (17)November 18, 2021
ThinkTank Review From 1983 (2)November 5, 2021
Default macOS Wallpapers (2)November 1, 2021
iPod at 20 (1)October 25, 2021
Old Apple Human Interface Guidelines (1)October 15, 2021
Celebrating Steve Jobs (8)October 5, 2021
Manual Full Justification (2)September 30, 2021
Retro Dither 1.0.1 (1)September 29, 2021
Mac OS X 10.1 Puma Revisited (1)September 27, 2021
History of App Store Policy Changes September 10, 2021
21 Years of Apple Home Page Tabs September 9, 2021
Working on Internet Explorer 3 and Google Chrome (4)August 16, 2021
After Dark Screensavers Recreated in CSS (5)August 6, 2021
Kid Pix as a JavaScript App (1)August 6, 2021
Brief Reviews of (Nearly) Every Mac Keyboard (4)August 3, 2021
The Print Shop Club (1)July 19, 2021
Apple’s Camera Design Choices July 12, 2021
Woz on Right to Repair (10)July 9, 2021
Panic’s 2016 App Store Feedback (4)July 8, 2021
Microsoft’s April 1998 Meeting With Steve Jobs (2)July 8, 2021
WWDC 2014 Video With Larry David (5)July 8, 2021
Testing the Apollo Spacecraft June 22, 2021
OldOS: iOS 4 Built in SwiftUI (3)June 22, 2021
Old Apple Conceptual Documentation (2)June 7, 2021
More Documents From Epic vs. Apple June 3, 2021
WWDC 2021 Preview June 1, 2021
Figma and the Num Lock Quasimode May 28, 2021
30 Years of the Web (1)May 21, 2021
20 Years of Apple Retail Stores (1)May 20, 2021
Epic v. Apple, Day 12 (1)May 19, 2021
Adobe Discontinuing PostScript Type 1 Font Support (2)May 13, 2021
What It Was Like to Sell Apps Online in 2003 (8)May 13, 2021
Inside App Review (1)May 10, 2021
Apple Developer Tools Memory Lane April 30, 2021
30 Years of Linux (1)April 29, 2021
Daniel Kaminsky, RIP April 29, 2021
Chuck Geschke, RIP April 19, 2021
Mac Chimes of Death (3)April 16, 2021
Why There’s No iMessage for Android (10)April 9, 2021
The Former Netflix DVD Library Is a Lost Treasure (3)April 7, 2021
History of Flow vs. Asana April 7, 2021
Mac OS X at 20 (4)March 24, 2021
Origin of macOS Poof Animation (5)March 2, 2021
Apple Beige March 1, 2021
Steve Jobs Stories (1)February 25, 2021
Fry’s Electronics Closing (1)February 25, 2021
A Retrospective Look at Mac OS X Snow Leopard (14)February 22, 2021
Paul Taylor, RIP (1)February 12, 2021
Apple’s Supply Chain (17)February 9, 2021
Jeff Bezos to Step Down as Amazon CEO February 3, 2021
Brad Cox, RIP (1)January 25, 2021
Jacob Ziv Honored January 18, 2021
Steve Jobs at All Things Digital (2)January 15, 2021
iTunes at 20 (6)January 12, 2021
Wikipedia Is 20 January 12, 2021
Here Lies Flash (2)January 12, 2021
Audion 4.0 (5)January 7, 2021
10th Anniversary of the Mac App Store (13)January 6, 2021
20 Macs for 2020: #1 – iMac G3 (12)December 30, 2020
FFmpeg Is 20 Years Old December 21, 2020
iOS Autocorrect and the Delete Key (6)December 17, 2020
Rewriting the Uber App in Swift (11)December 10, 2020
Retiring Growl (3)November 30, 2020
Intel’s Disruption Is Now Complete (4)November 16, 2020
25 Years Ago: BeOS (5)October 30, 2020
Apple University Dean on Apple’s Organizational Structure October 26, 2020
Evolution of the Programming Languages From iPhone OS 1.0 to iOS 14 (9)October 19, 2020
Steve Jobs Stories October 16, 2020
A Visual History of System Preferences (7)September 21, 2020
Applebot (2)September 8, 2020
Why Did Mozilla Remove XUL Add-ons? (4)August 27, 2020
Russell Kirsch, RIP (1)August 20, 2020
Bill English, RIP August 19, 2020
The Case of the Top Secret iPod (1)August 17, 2020
Frances Allen, RIP August 17, 2020
20 Years Ago: the PowerMac G4 Cube (1)August 3, 2020
macintosh.js (1)July 30, 2020
The Rise and Fall of Adobe Flash July 20, 2020
Looking Back at WWDC 1990 (3)June 19, 2020
PHP at 25 (1)June 8, 2020
The Origin of Database “Sharding” June 5, 2020
App.net Archive Now Available May 13, 2020
Steve Jobs, Photographer May 7, 2020
Microsoft Word Now Flags Double Spaces As Errors (5)May 7, 2020
Reviving a 16-year-old Mac App May 6, 2020
Apple Watch at 5 (2)April 29, 2020
The NTSC Color Hack April 28, 2020
Macintosh Y2020 (1)April 21, 2020
Calling for COBOL Programmers (2)April 8, 2020
Old macOS Desktop Pictures, Upscaled March 27, 2020
Fast (2)March 24, 2020
Apple Mail’s Magic Mailboxes (4)March 23, 2020
The Growth of Command Line Options March 19, 2020
The Pace of macOS Updates March 16, 2020
Saving Audion Faces (2)March 10, 2020
Vanishing MacBook Pro Ports (10)March 10, 2020
Samsung vs. iPhone March 9, 2020
The Apollo Guidance Computer (1)March 6, 2020
PlayStation Copy Protection March 2, 2020
How Crash Bandicoot Hacked the Original Playstation (3)February 28, 2020
Craig Federighi’s Advice February 28, 2020
Larry Tesler, RIP (1)February 19, 2020
Goodbye, Mac360 (1)February 18, 2020
Clayton Christensen, RIP February 3, 2020
Behind the Scenes on Apple’s Aperture Team (8)January 30, 2020
iPad at 10 (9)January 28, 2020
Typewriter Keylogger January 15, 2020
iPod and Other History via Tony Fadell (1)January 13, 2020
Ten Years of Apple on One Page (3)January 7, 2020
20 Years Ago: Internet Explorer 5 and iTools January 6, 2020
Tim Cook’s Apple (13)December 17, 2019
Tony Brooker, RIP December 16, 2019
Joining Apple Computer 40 Years Ago (1)December 16, 2019
Drinking the SK8 Kool-Aid December 3, 2019
1Password Takes Accel Investment (28)November 15, 2019
The Team Behind the 6502 (3)October 28, 2019
Perfectly Cropped (10)October 22, 2019
Safari Security Code AutoFill (7)October 21, 2019
FSF Missed the Cloud and Mobile (7)October 21, 2019
About Project Zero (1)October 3, 2019
Recreating Mac Desktop Picture Photos September 16, 2019
How Apple Uses Its App Store to Copy the Best Ideas (12)September 13, 2019
Run Commands, the ‘rc’ in ‘.bashrc’ (1)September 4, 2019
Thirty Years of Fetch (7)September 2, 2019
The Version Museum August 16, 2019
Netflix vs. Blockbuster Total Access (2)August 2, 2019
Andy Hertzfeld’s Videos (1)July 22, 2019
An Illustrated History of Easter Eggs July 19, 2019
Margaret Hamilton and Apollo 11 (1)July 19, 2019
Why Did Moving the Mouse Cursor Cause Windows 95 to Run More Quickly? July 16, 2019
Fernando Corbató, RIP (1)July 15, 2019
“S” iPhones Get the Most Software Updates (2)July 5, 2019
Bill Gates’ Mea Culpa June 27, 2019
Jean-Marie Hullot, RIP (3)June 21, 2019
A 101-year-old TidBITS Reader June 20, 2019
Legal at Apple Scale (3)June 13, 2019
Bringing Back Color and Depth (2)June 10, 2019
The End of iTunes (8)May 31, 2019
App Store Competition (12)May 30, 2019
Why Does Windows Use Backslash As the Path Separator? (1)May 24, 2019
Jim des Rivieres, RIP May 6, 2019
Apple Developer CD Covers (2)May 3, 2019
Nils Nilsson, RIP May 2, 2019
The Under-Appreciated Awesomeness of Apple Events (the Technology) (2)April 29, 2019
Origins of the Apple Human Interface (5)April 18, 2019
The Time Tim Cook Stood His Ground Against the FBI (11)April 17, 2019
10 Years of MacStories April 15, 2019
UTF-8’s History and Virtues April 3, 2019
Withholding AppleCare (2)April 2, 2019
Software Before the App Store (8)March 29, 2019
Lessons From 6 Software Rewrite Stories (1)February 19, 2019
Ten Years Ago, Apple Said Goodbye to Macworld February 18, 2019
Memories of Facebook Paper (2)February 4, 2019
35 Years of Mac (1)January 24, 2019
Swift Community Podcast January 16, 2019
The Old Guard of Mac Indy Apps (1)December 31, 2018
Microsoft Word for Windows 1.0 Postmortem (1)December 27, 2018
Why It’s Hard to Escape Amazon’s Long Reach December 27, 2018
Computer Pioneers Advent Calendar December 27, 2018
Papercraft Computers (1)December 23, 2018
Tracking Leakers With Watermarked Screens (1)December 11, 2018
The Friendship That Made Google Huge (1)December 7, 2018
Microsoft EdgeHTML Replaced by Chromium (4)December 4, 2018
Interview With Ron Johnson December 3, 2018
SubEthaEdit 5.0 Goes Open Source (3)November 28, 2018
Apple Emoji Turns 10 November 26, 2018
Version Control Before Git with CVS (3)November 15, 2018
The Early Days of GitHub October 29, 2018
Paul Buchheit on Joining and Leaving Google October 19, 2018
Paul Allen, RIP October 16, 2018
History of Uber’s Design October 10, 2018
Happy 25th Birthday, AppleScript (2)October 4, 2018
Darren Eastman Sues Apple (5)October 2, 2018
The Rise and Fall of The Learning Company October 1, 2018
Android at 10 (3)September 27, 2018
The Rise and Demise of RSS (2)September 19, 2018
An Oral History of Apple’s Infinite Loop September 18, 2018
Writing Hexadecimal Numbers (3)September 12, 2018
Inside the World of Eddy Cue, Apple’s Services Chief (9)September 6, 2018
NetNewsWire Comes Home (6)August 31, 2018
How a 1998 Meeting With Steve Jobs Gave Birth to Wi-Fi August 30, 2018
On the History of Mathematical Typography (1)August 30, 2018
Aqua Screenshot Library (1)August 23, 2018
The History of Aperture (5)August 22, 2018
Happy 20th Launch Anniversary, iMac August 16, 2018
American Computer & Robotics Museum August 13, 2018
The PSPDFKit Story (1)August 10, 2018
25 Years Ago, Apple Introduced the Newton (2)August 3, 2018
Leaving NeXT for General Magic (2)August 3, 2018
Creative Selection July 26, 2018
Steve Jobs on the App Store in 2008 July 26, 2018
The Secret Call to Andy Grove That May Have Helped Apple Buy NeXT (2)July 25, 2018
Mac and iOS Wallpaper Archive (2)July 24, 2018
Joe Shelton Recalls the Early Mac Days (1)July 23, 2018
Computer History Museum Releases Eudora’s Source Code (1)July 20, 2018
App Preservation: Saving the App Store’s History (3)July 16, 2018
How Far Does 20MHz of Macintosh IIsi Power Go Today? (1)July 16, 2018
The App Store Turns 10 (1)July 11, 2018
Be File System Retrospective (2)July 6, 2018
15 Years of Ulysses July 5, 2018
A Brief History of Unreal Mode July 3, 2018
Reclaiming RSS (2)July 2, 2018
Rebuilding Apple Maps Using Apple’s Own Data (18)June 29, 2018
Selling PowerSchool June 25, 2018
Andy Hertzfeld Interview June 21, 2018
Apple’s Design Language Has Killed Fun in Consumer Electronics (3)June 14, 2018
Smile Turns 15: an Interview With Greg Scown June 12, 2018
The 2013 Mac Pro, Five Years Later (2)June 8, 2018
Apple’s Emoji Search is Bad (2)June 3, 2018
Mac and iOS Automation History (1)June 2, 2018
WWDC 1997 Videos and Other History (1)May 31, 2018
20 Years of USB (8)May 15, 2018
John Carmack’s Steve Jobs Stories (1)May 14, 2018
What Happened to Apple’s Whimsy? (20)May 8, 2018
20 Years of iMac (3)May 3, 2018
30 Years of Frontier April 29, 2018
Speculation and Dread for the Next Transition (1)April 23, 2018
The Woman Who Gave the Macintosh a Smile April 22, 2018
Oracle Claims Trademark Infringement for an iOS JavaScript Editor App (2)April 22, 2018
The Menu Bar (4)April 20, 2018
Lessons Learned From the App Store (5)April 20, 2018
One Laptop Per Child Retrospective (1)April 17, 2018
The Making of Dark Castle (2)April 11, 2018
Jim Reekes Discusses Apple Sound History April 9, 2018
The Stack Overflow Age (2)April 6, 2018
Interview With Apple Logo Creator Rob Janoff April 4, 2018
Apple Plans to Use Its Own Chips in Macs From 2020, Replacing Intel (16)April 3, 2018
kottke.org at Twenty (3)March 27, 2018
What Went Wrong With Siri (3)March 15, 2018
The Origins of QuickTime March 13, 2018
The Original Siri App Compared to Siri Today (1)March 12, 2018
HyperCard Zine March 12, 2018
Old Steve Jobs Videos (3)March 9, 2018
A Lot Can Happen in a Decade March 7, 2018
Designing Windows 95’s User Interface February 28, 2018
HomePod Positioning February 27, 2018
The Mac App Sandbox and Non-Native Apps (7)February 13, 2018
John Perry Barlow, RIP February 9, 2018
The Experts Have Taken Over (1)February 5, 2018
How Hotmail Changed Microsoft and E-mail February 2, 2018
Good Ideas, Through the Looking Glass February 2, 2018
Four Column ASCII January 29, 2018
Mosaic’s Birthday: 25 Years of the Modern Web (1)January 29, 2018
Microsoft Office 2016, Version 16.9 (2)January 22, 2018
The MacBook Air: A Decade’s Worth of Legacy January 15, 2018
Former Apple Intern Looks Back at Designing First Apple Emoji in 2008 January 12, 2018
Computer Latency: 1977-2017 January 8, 2018
Alan Kay’s Thoughts, Old and New January 3, 2018
“Mother of All Markets” or a “Pipe Dream Driven by Greed”? (3)December 1, 2017
Dave Winer Interview November 30, 2017
20 Years of Adobe Photoshop November 27, 2017
Dive Into APFS (6)November 15, 2017
The Best Laptop Ever Made (8)November 15, 2017
AIM Will Shut Down After 20 Years (2)October 6, 2017
Pre-charging and Testing iPhones at the Factory (1)October 4, 2017
A Eulogy for Eudora (1)October 4, 2017
Alan Kay on the iPhone (8)September 28, 2017
iPhone 8 and iPhone X Cameras (1)September 22, 2017
Oral History of Avie Tevanian (1)September 11, 2017
1980s Apple Ads September 6, 2017
Congratulations (9)September 4, 2017
Carbon Copy Cloner 5 (1)August 28, 2017
Dylan and Newton History August 28, 2017
When Exactly Will the Eclipse Happen? August 21, 2017
The Life, Death, and Legacy of iPhone Jailbreaking (1)August 17, 2017
A Brief History of the UUID August 14, 2017
Classic Game Postmortem: Oregon Trail August 14, 2017
HyperCard on the Internet Archive (2)August 11, 2017
The Internet Archive Adds 25,000 78rpm Records August 9, 2017
Graphing Calculator Started As a Demo for PenMac August 3, 2017
Pascal at Apple July 25, 2017
A Rift in the NTP World July 20, 2017
Bait and Switch: How Apple Created Nintendo’s Best Console (2)July 18, 2017
Mike Slade on Apple, NeXT, Microsoft, and Starwave History (2)July 5, 2017
Steve Jobs and the Missing “Intel Inside” Sticker (11)July 5, 2017
Tony Fadell on Apple’s Pre-iPhone Devices June 28, 2017
The Tragedy of FireWire (2)June 22, 2017
Scott Forstall Discusses the iPhone’s Creation (5)June 21, 2017
Charles Thacker, RIP June 14, 2017
The History of BlitzMail June 14, 2017
What Really Happened With Vista (2)June 4, 2017
Preparing for WWDC 2017 (1)June 2, 2017
Pinboard Acquires Delicious June 2, 2017
30 Years of PopChar (1)May 10, 2017
Hollywood Archivists Can’t Outpace Obsolescence (1)May 4, 2017
Concurrency Is Not Parallelism April 29, 2017
In Praise of Flickr (1)April 18, 2017
Classic Mac Emulation in the Browser (3)April 17, 2017
The Walt Mossberg Brand April 11, 2017
curl Is C April 7, 2017
Frontier Diary #1 (1)April 5, 2017
RSS on the Desktop, 15 Years Later March 30, 2017
Coding Today vs. the 80s March 29, 2017
Review of the Apple TV 2, 7 Years Later (2)March 29, 2017
Complexity and Strategy in Microsoft Office (1)March 20, 2017
Looking at Model-View-Controller in Cocoa March 15, 2017
The Story of Firefox OS (2)March 15, 2017
The Genius Bar Idea March 6, 2017
OmniOutliner Essentials (1)February 22, 2017
Virtual Apple II (3)February 12, 2017
The Slow Decline of iPad Sales (4)February 12, 2017
Things Every Hacker Once Knew (4)February 2, 2017
Funding the Web (1)January 29, 2017
Requiem for the Thunderbolt Display January 25, 2017
The State of Apple (2)January 23, 2017
Chris Lattner ATP Interview (16)January 23, 2017
Tony Fadell’s Stories About the First iPhone January 11, 2017
How Adobe Flash Fell, and Why Flash Content Is Worth Preserving January 10, 2017
Amazon’s 1-Click Checkout Patent Expires in 2017 January 10, 2017
Condensed History of VisiCalc January 3, 2017
“Hidden Figures” and NASA’s Human Computers January 3, 2017
What Y2K Was Like at Microsoft (1)December 22, 2016
How Apple Alienated Mac Loyalists (16)December 20, 2016
Stroustrup’s Rule and Layering Over Time (1)December 20, 2016
Why Does calloc Exist? December 7, 2016
The Operating System Fountain of Youth (7)December 5, 2016
A History of Hard Drives (1)December 1, 2016
“Designed by Apple in California” Video November 21, 2016
Miyamoto Spills Donkey Kong’s Darkest Secrets (1)November 9, 2016
Windows File System Compression Had to Be Dumbed Down November 8, 2016
OpenType Variable Fonts October 14, 2016
A Mac OS 9 Odyssey October 11, 2016
Rich Siegel Interview September 26, 2016
Whatever Happened to the Hurd? August 26, 2016
.NET/C# Generics History August 25, 2016
Steve Jobs on Graphics Performance August 24, 2016
The System 7.5 Watch August 20, 2016
Learning From Apple’s Failures (3)August 13, 2016
Modern Versions of Word Can’t Open Old File Formats August 13, 2016
Seymour Papert, RIP August 13, 2016
Twitter Verification August 12, 2016
Kagi, RIP (1)August 1, 2016
Verizon Acquires Yahoo (6)July 26, 2016
Running System 1 on El Capitan July 15, 2016
The Windows Shutdown Crapfest July 15, 2016
Swift Playgrounds Aren’t HyperCard July 13, 2016
The History of “This Web Site Is Well-crafted” Hints July 11, 2016
Jefferson’s Pull Request July 4, 2016
How AWS Came to Be July 3, 2016
How Oracle’s Business As Usual Is Threatening to Kill Java July 2, 2016
Interviews: Kare, Bezos, Musk, Felleisen, Gruber July 2, 2016
Why Swift Ditched Tuple-to-Tuple Function Modeling July 1, 2016
“I’d Like You to Police Each Other” June 30, 2016
Why Google Stores Billions of Lines of Code in a Single Repository June 30, 2016
Vintage Macworld Magazine Library June 29, 2016
The Dissertation Behind rsync June 24, 2016
Alan Kay AMA June 22, 2016
End of the Road for MacNN (1)June 20, 2016
Apple File System (APFS) (12)June 17, 2016
The Secret History of Mac Gaming June 2, 2016
Every Default OS X Desktop Picture June 1, 2016
Google : 2010s :: Microsoft : 1990s (5)May 27, 2016
Separate, Support, Serve May 20, 2016
Larry and Steve’s Plans to Save Apple May 16, 2016
The Natural History of Palatino May 13, 2016
Claude Shannon Turns 1100100 May 5, 2016
Apple Officially Discontinues WebObjects May 5, 2016
Intel Splits on Atom May 3, 2016
Kuro5hin, RIP May 3, 2016
Bill Atkinson Interview April 29, 2016
Antitrust and Aggregation April 26, 2016
Computer History Museum Honors Dave Cutler April 16, 2016
Lessons Learned From 30 Years of MINIX (3)April 12, 2016
NSSplitView Trademark Dispute (1)April 11, 2016
Why There Is No Calculator on the iPad April 7, 2016
Early Apple Retail Adventures April 4, 2016
The Deep History of Your Apps April 3, 2016
Regis McKenna’s 1976 Notebook April 2, 2016
Andy Grove, RIP March 22, 2016
30 Pounds of Microsoft Office (3)March 15, 2016
Why Are We Fighting the Crypto Wars Again? (1)March 14, 2016
Intuit Sells Quicken to H.I.G. Capital March 11, 2016
Ray Tomlinson, RIP March 7, 2016
iPod History and iTunes for Windows March 1, 2016
Not Too Late to Change February 19, 2016
Cupertino’s Chief Chipmaker, Johny Srouji February 18, 2016
AppleWorks and the Capriciousness of Nostalgia (1)February 16, 2016
The Secret Story Behind Apple’s “Lemmings” February 9, 2016
A Conversation With Erik Spiekermann February 6, 2016
15 Years of VLC and VideoLAN (2)February 2, 2016
Glider Pro on GitHub (1)January 30, 2016
Meet iCloud’s Great-grandfather: iTools (1)January 30, 2016
VMware Fusion (4)January 30, 2016
Marvin Minsky, RIP January 25, 2016
7 Scandalous Weird Old Things About the C Preprocessor January 25, 2016
Localized Hardware January 22, 2016
Once Bitten (2)January 20, 2016
Architecture of the Web Inspector January 15, 2016
The Most Upgradable Portable Mac Ever (10)January 13, 2016
The 15-Year History of iTunes (1)January 10, 2016
Microsoft Solitaire Was Developed by a Summer Intern January 8, 2016
Five Years of Mac App Store (1)January 7, 2016
Adobe Premiere, Final Cut Pro, iMovie ’08, and Final Cut Pro X December 17, 2015
The First Spotlight Interface December 17, 2015
The TTY Demystified December 4, 2015
The Success of ARM December 3, 2015
Surprising Complexity Inside Apple’s Power Adapter November 30, 2015
An Ode to Kai’s Power Goo November 24, 2015
Ranchero SpotLight November 24, 2015
Dangers of NeXTSTEP Plists (3)November 24, 2015
Gene Amdahl, RIP November 14, 2015
How Apple Is Giving Design a Bad Name (1)November 11, 2015
On Keyboards and Thinness (1)November 11, 2015
George Boole: a 200-Year View November 10, 2015
Chuck Forsberg, RIP November 3, 2015
Reactions to the First iPod (2)October 27, 2015
The Story of NetNewsWire (1)October 26, 2015
Sorkin and Boyle’s “Steve Jobs” October 23, 2015
That Would Never Happen (1)October 14, 2015
FogBugz, JIRA, and Wasabi (5)October 13, 2015
Why the Floppy Disk Is Still Used Today (1)October 11, 2015
“What do you think?” (1)October 9, 2015
Historical Photos October 9, 2015
Alex King, RIP October 4, 2015
Rosyna Needs Help September 24, 2015
The Lost Apple Logos You’ve Never Seen September 22, 2015
How to Turn iOS 9’s Keyboard Back to All Caps (2)September 19, 2015
Electronic Arts’s Recent App Store Removals (3)September 13, 2015
Computer Science Courses that Don’t Exist, But Should September 13, 2015
Adrian Frutiger, RIP (2)September 13, 2015
How and Why We Designed Lucida September 1, 2015
A Salute to Solo Programmers (5)August 27, 2015
Git as a Document Format August 22, 2015
A Eulogy for Objective-C (4)August 18, 2015
Steve Jobs’s Interview With Red Herring, 1996 August 18, 2015
Inside Amazon: Wrestling Big Ideas in a Bruising Workplace (1)August 15, 2015
The Appsmiths (2)August 1, 2015
Phasing Out Google+ (1)July 29, 2015
Why JSON Doesn’t Have Comments July 28, 2015
Web Design: The First 100 Years July 23, 2015
A Complete History of Unix, in One GitHub Repo July 7, 2015
How Crash Bandicoot Was Fit Into 2MB of RAM June 18, 2015
Hermann Zapf, RIP (1)June 12, 2015
Yahoo Pipes Shuts Down June 5, 2015
What Happened to SourceForge? (1)June 4, 2015
Web Decay Graph June 2, 2015
30 Years of Pac-Man May 25, 2015
Hard Drive Icons Through the Ages May 21, 2015
Firing Well (1)May 19, 2015
Thanks, Ted Landau (2)May 19, 2015
Verizon-AOL May 14, 2015
Chat Wars May 9, 2015
Claris History (1)May 8, 2015
Beyond Open Source May 6, 2015
Video Interview With Mark Alldritt May 2, 2015
Software, Psychedelics, and the Origins of OS X & iOS April 29, 2015
Mythology (1)April 27, 2015
Thanks (1)April 23, 2015
Jony Ive and the Newton MessagePad 110 March 14, 2015
Who Else Kinda Misses Their Zip Disks? (4)February 1, 2015
Never Trust a Corporation to Do a Library’s Job January 31, 2015
MPW, Carbon, and Building Classic Mac Apps on Yosemite January 25, 2015
The Imitation Game (1)January 24, 2015
The Design Philosophy of the DARPA Internet Protocols January 23, 2015
How iOS Has Changed (1)January 23, 2015
Organ Banked (2)January 23, 2015
Vintage Mac About Boxes (1)January 17, 2015
Old MS-DOS Games (1)January 13, 2015
A Dozen Things Tren Griffin Learned From Steve Jobs About Business January 4, 2015
NSPPL: Persistent Property Lists (1)December 15, 2014
Apple’s First Employee: Bill Fernandez December 6, 2014
Script Debugger’s 20th Anniversary (3)December 4, 2014
Rhapsody Developer’s Guide (1)December 2, 2014
Using C++ to Deliver Microsoft Office Across Different Platforms (4)November 29, 2014
The Story of DeltaGraph November 25, 2014
MPW’s About Box November 20, 2014
Fire in the Valley, Third Edition November 7, 2014
Peak Google October 23, 2014
Remembering Macworld Expo (1)October 15, 2014
The Source of Technote #2034 (6)October 8, 2014
Brad Cox Interview (2009) October 6, 2014
Facts and Thinking September 19, 2014
A Brief Visual History of Apple Home Page Tabs September 13, 2014
Ode to Susan Kare’s Chicago (2)August 24, 2014
The Adobe Illustrator Story August 1, 2014
The History of Civilization July 31, 2014
Scrollbar History July 22, 2014
OS X to iOS June 27, 2014
System 7 to Carbon (1)June 25, 2014
20th Anniversary of QuickTake 100 June 22, 2014
The Legacy of GOAL June 18, 2014
The History of Android June 17, 2014
Typography in 8 Bits: System Fonts May 30, 2014
Rich Siegel on BBEdit May 22, 2014
The Untold Story of Larry Page’s Incredible Comeback May 12, 2014
What Happened at NewsGator May 12, 2014
The Origin of Smalltalk’s Select, Reject, and Inject April 30, 2014
BASIC at 50 (1)April 30, 2014
WinFS, Integrated/Unified Storage, and Microsoft (1)April 16, 2014
Memories of Steve (2)April 14, 2014
The Birth of Amazon.com (1)April 10, 2014
20th Anniversary of Netscape’s Founding (9)April 6, 2014
How Gmail Happened April 1, 2014
MacFixIt Is Gone (1)March 27, 2014
Negotiating With Steve Jobs About WriteNow March 27, 2014
MS-DOS and Word for Windows Source Code Published March 26, 2014
Apple Engineer Recalls the iPhone’s Birth March 26, 2014
How Was the PDF Format Created? (3)March 18, 2014
Brøderbund Archives (1)March 6, 2014
Unintentionally Hidden Dot-files March 4, 2014
Working With Woz February 25, 2014
An Illustrated History of objc_msgSend February 12, 2014
Scriptnotes on Final Draft (2)February 10, 2014
30 Years of Mac (2)January 24, 2014
The Demise of QuarkXPress January 24, 2014
Kid Pix - The Early Years January 24, 2014
Oral History of Adele Goldberg January 22, 2014
Douglas Adams on Mac OS X 10.0 January 21, 2014
How Does Apple Keep Secrets So Well? January 21, 2014
“Doom” 20th Anniversary Stories January 10, 2014
Why MacPaint’s Original Canvas was 416 Pixels Wide (1)January 10, 2014
The Triumph and Tragedy of OS/2 (1)November 27, 2013
History of the Browser User-Agent String November 6, 2013
MacAddict Cover Discs Archive (1)November 6, 2013
Why Array Indices Start at Zero (1)October 30, 2013
How Java’s Floating-Point Hurts Everyone Everywhere October 29, 2013
Masters of Doom October 18, 2013
Apple’s “Skankphone” Was the iPhone’s Ugly Twin Brother September 26, 2013
The History of the Trapper Keeper (1)September 20, 2013
Walt Mossberg’s First WSJ Tech Column September 20, 2013
How Steve Jobs Got Fired From Apple September 12, 2013
The Creation of Missile Command August 28, 2013
An Apple Bibliography August 17, 2013
How I Created the Iconic iPhone Sound August 14, 2013
Remembering the Apple Newton’s Prophetic Failure and Lasting Impact August 14, 2013
1983 Steve Jobs IDCA Speech July 30, 2013
Argument and Buffer Etymology July 30, 2013
BYTE Magazine Archive (3)July 28, 2013
A Brief History of Test Frameworks June 19, 2013
The Life and Death of Camino (1)May 31, 2013
The Macintosh Finder, Then and Now (6)May 24, 2013
The iPhone Home Button April 19, 2013
Apple: Unfortunately, No Longer the Underdog (1)April 15, 2013
Apple DOS April 3, 2013
Universal Procedure Pointers March 31, 2013
Hotline Revisited (1)March 31, 2013
The Chequered History of MagSafe (3)March 14, 2013
MacWrite and MacPaint, a Coral Reef January 24, 2013
The History of the Scroll Wheel January 24, 2013
Why Was “~” Chosen to Represent the Home Directory? January 22, 2013
What It’s Really Like Working With Steve Jobs (1)January 22, 2013
OMNI Magazine Archive January 3, 2013
Steve Jobs at WWDC 1997 Q&A (3)June 5, 2011
The Story of Oregon Trail March 18, 2011
MacPaint and QuickDraw Source Code July 20, 2010
Woz’s Regret October 17, 2006
A Brief History of Metrowerks March 7, 2006
Interviews September 7, 2005
Jef Raskin Dies February 27, 2005
A Conversation with Alan Kay February 9, 2005
The Graphing Calculator Story December 22, 2004
The True Story of Audion (1)November 12, 2004
The Early History of Smalltalk August 2, 2004
Macintosh Folklore January 25, 2004
General Magic January 6, 2004
ClarisWorks History (2)January 19, 2003

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