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From ELIZA to GPT: A History of Chatbots
From ELIZA’s 1966 pattern matching to modern LLMs: six decades of chatbot history, and why the “ELIZA effect” still applies to today’s systems.
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Slackware: The Oldest Surviving Linux Distribution
Slackware, the oldest actively maintained Linux distribution, and why its deliberately minimal, no-hand-holding philosophy has endured for three decades.
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From Punch Cards to SSDs: A History of Computer Storage
From punch cards to SSDs: seven decades of computer storage evolution, and the genuinely staggering capacity improvement across that history.
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Vim vs Emacs: The Editor War That Never Ends
Why the Vim vs Emacs debate has lasted decades, what each editor’s core philosophy actually is, and why both ideas ended up winning in the long…
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The Perceptron: Where Neural Networks Actually Began
The Perceptron: where neural networks actually began in 1958, the fundamental limitation that triggered the first AI winter, and its decades-later resolution.
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From CD-ROM to Streaming: The Rise and Fall of Optical Media
From CD-ROM to Blu-ray to streaming: the complete rise and fall of optical media within roughly three decades.
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From Floppy Disks to USB: A History of Removable Storage
From floppy disks to USB drives: the history of removable storage, and why the save icon is still, oddly, a floppy disk decades later.