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“Presenting this as Exchange leveraging the NT Directory might be polite, but it is definitely not accurate.” –Subscriber Don Hacherl, Dev Lead on Exchange Directory from 1991-96, then on Active Dir.
by year, since 3000 BC. Universal History datasets. Relevant Universal History vector information.
Easily run old versions of UNIX for PDP-11 on modern hardware - felipenlunkes/run-ancient-unix
The following account of the real origins of Cisco Systems, as opposed to the history often recounted in Cisco company literature, was written in 1999 by Tom Rindfleisch. Rindfleisch was Director of the SUMEX-AIM project (1973-1990), under which the software for a powerful Internet router system was developed and widely deployed at Stanford and elsewhere … Continue reading "The Real Origin of Cisco Systems"
Continuous Unix commit history from 1970 until today - GitHub - dspinellis/unix-history-repo at master
It was mostly pretty bad, but Happy 4th of July!
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The Athenian historian Thucydides once remarked that Sparta was so lacking in impressive temples or monuments that future generations who found the place deserted would struggle to believe it had ever been a great power. But even without physical monuments, the memory of Sparta is very much alive in the modern United States. In popular culture, Spartans star in film and feature as the protagonists of several of the largest video game franchises. The Spartan brand is used to promote obstacle races, fitness equipment, and firearms. Sparta has also become a political rallying cry, including by members of the extreme right who stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. Sparta is gone, but the glorification of Sparta—Spartaganda, as it were—is alive and well.
Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution, Steven Levy
The Second Self: Computers and the Human Spirit, Sherry Turkle
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More than 300 Reverse engineering essays by various +ORC's students and friends