/explore

Click through on any links that interest you or select the planets on the right to continue exploring the Outer Web.
You are here

asymco.com
| | www.technologizer.com

On August 12th, 1981, IBM announced its first PC. That makes today the thirtieth anniversary of the platform that's sometimes been called the PC clone, IBM PC compatible, or Wintel...but is most often simply called the PC. We started our celebration on Thursday with Benj Edwards' look at PC oddities such as Bill Gates's donkey-avoidance...
3.2 parsecs

Travel
| |
| | gwern.net

A classic pattern in technology economics, identified by Joel Spolsky, is layers of the stack attempting to become monopolies while turning other layers into perfectly-competitive markets which are commoditized, in order to harvest most of the consumer surplus; discussion and examples.
3.4 parsecs

Travel
| |
| | www.davidalison.com

On February 2, 2008 I was a Windows software developer. I had a house full of Windows based machines and was working on building up my next ...
2.9 parsecs

Travel
| |
| | www.classic-computers.org.nz

An OSI C4P Adventure (including fixing a RAM expansion board, enabling for cassette, writing a software demo and lots of other things!) (a 2014 Retrochallenge)
43.0 parsecs

Travel
|