Colossus cracked Germany’s encrypted communications. The world’s first large-scale programmable electronic digital computer is now an IEEE Milestone.

Christopher Nolan's upcoming The Odyssey officially sets an all-time Rotten Tomatoes record, as the first reviews of the fantasy epic are in.

Beneath the sprawling, gnarled branches of a kiawe tree in Hawaii's pristine Kealakekua Bay, an X lies carved into an otherwise unassuming rock face.

But there's no buried treasure to be found here.

This X marks the spot where Captain James Cook was killed by Kānaka Maoli (native Hawaiians) on Valentine's Day in 1779.

Usborne children's coding books for a new generation

LAN-LOK: The Antarctic DOS Sabotage Game Lost for 34 Years (Part 1)

Diving into the nostalgia of LAN parties and exploring its rise, fall, and comeback in the evolving landscape of multiplayer gaming

May 6, 2026 – “Rotten.com was a haunted arcade, dispensing trauma in gumball-machine doses straight to kids with dial-up, who chewed on images never meant for their half-formed stomachs.”

Construction workers cracked open the ground for a new building and pulled out a 660-year-old secret that is rewriting what historians thought they knew about medieval seafaring.

Transcription of Tim Paterson's DOS printouts. Contribute to DOS-History/Paterson-Listings development by creating an account on GitHub.

Old fashioned sleuthing and the help of modern technology leads to discovery of manuscript with poem composed by a farm labourer 1,300 years ago.

For 21 years, fast16 corrupted nuclear research calculations without anyone noticing. It predates Stuxnet by five years. The math was always wrong.

Foreground p.20 RECYCLING USED ICs [theme Hardware] [author Mikkelsen] p.62 DECIPHERING MYSTERY KEYBOARDS [theme Hardware] [author Heltners] p.72 LIFE...

Considered lost for over a century, Georges Méliès' 'Gugusse and the Automaton' features cinema’s earliest robot.

The past was not as foreign as we think.

Annotated display of 1000 domestic electrical plugs and sockets from all over the world, including classic and obsolete types.

2019 rebuilding of the original NeXT web browser