UNIX v4 (1973) live in your browser. Original binaries recently recovered from archival sources once thought lost. PDP-11/45 emulator with Thompson shell and early C compiler.

We may have the best understanding of the Easter Island Moai yet

: Crucial early evolutionary step found, imaged, and ... amazingly ... works

On September 14, 2015, our first publicly-trusted certificate went live. We were proud that we had issued a certificate that a significant majority of clients could accept, and had done it using automated software. Of course, in retrospect this was just the first of billions of certificates. Today, Let’s Encrypt is the largest certificate authority in the world in terms of certificates issued, the ACME protocol we helped create and standardize is integrated throughout the server ecosystem, and we’ve become a household name among system administrators. We’re closing in on protecting one billion web sites.

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🎥 Step inside the surreal world of The Goodies, where chaos became genius and three madmen turned television upside down. Discover the wild stunts, secret d...

How I spent two decades tracking down the creators of a 1987 USENET game and learned modern packaging tools in the process. The Discovery: A Digital Time Capsule from 1987 Picture this: October 26, 1987. The Berlin Wall still stands, the World Wide Web is just text, and software is distributed through USENET newsgroups in […]

For as long as I have published my books, one of my overarching goals was to give credit to those who actually invented the hardware and software that we use.

I have spent 10,000+ hours to create an accurate record of their work but I'm not complaining. The 'as-close-to-possible'

The Oxbridge-educated boffin is feted as the codebreaking genius who helped Britain win the war. But should a little-known Post Office engineer named Tommy Flowers be seen as the real father of computing?

This was a road trip hours long & weeks in the making. Thanks to several of my friends & acquaintances posting about it on Bluesky, I had heard that the lege...

The Web Era arrives, the browser wars flare, and a bubble bursts.

A world lost under 34 million years of ice recently discovered by scientists

The 18th century misadventures of HMS Wager and her reluctant crew

In our new 3-part series, we remember the people and ideas that made the Internet.