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Surviving Techno-Dystopia - by P.E. Moskowitz

#dystopia #mental_health #social_media #structural_inequality #technology_history | <blockquote>Malcolm Harris on Palo Alto, brain optimization, and fighting back against our tech overlords</blockquote>

2 years ago | View Shared by victor
Why is the mouse cursor slightly tilted and not straight?

#cursor #design #hypothesis #legacy #mouse #technology_history #visual_language

7 years ago | View Shared by victor
A Brief History of Design: How I came to appreciate Microsoft’s design roots

#aesthetic #culture #design #design_history #digital_preservation #microsoft #technology_history | <blockquote>It is easy to question everything designed before you when you join a new company. I mean, why the heck would a scroll bar be red in Windows 2.0 … what could they have possibly been thinking?! But while it may be fun and easy to criticize the past, it is crucial to ask the question “why?” To realize that those who came before were pretty damn cutting-edge, and that each design decision carries the baggage of late nights, pulled hair, teamwork, innovation, and expertise.</blockquote>

8 years ago | View Shared by victor
Lou's Pseudo 3d Page

#canvas #game #games #graphics #math #programming #technology_history

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Programmed Inequality | The MIT Press

#book #gender #politics #tech_culture #technology_history #to_read #women_in_tech

8 years ago | View Shared by victor
The Humane Representation of Thought on Vimeo

#communication #design #programming #talk #technology_history | <blockquote>[…] But the dynamic medium offers the opportunity to deliberately invent a humane and empowering form of knowledge work. We can design dynamic representations which draw on the entire range of human capabilities — all senses, all forms of movement, all forms of understanding — instead of straining a few and atrophying the rest.</blockquote>

9 years ago | View Shared by victor
The IxD Library - A collection of materials related to Interaction Design

#books #design #interaction_design #reference #technology_history #ux

9 years ago | View Shared by victor
Edsger W. Dijkstra - Wikiwand

#algorithms #computer_science #computing #technology_history | <blockquote>Edsger Wybe Dijkstra ; 11 May 1930 – 6 August 2002) was a Dutch computer scientist[13] and mathematical scientist. A theoretical physicist by training, he worked as a programmer at the Mathematisch Centrum from 1952 to 1962. He was a professor of mathematics at the Eindhoven University of Technology and a research fellow at the Burroughs Corporation . He held the Schlumberger Centennial Chair in Computer Sciences at the University of Texas at Austin from 1984 until 1999, and retired ...

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Against the Natural Order of Things: why eLearning refuses to take off | Jonathan Baldwin - Academia.edu

#adoption #education #elearning #future #internet #paper #technology #technology_history

10 years ago | View Shared by victor
The curious case of the disappearing Polish Ś — Medium Engineering

#bugs #keyboard #language #polish #shortcuts #technology_history | <blockquote>One keyboard bug three decades in the making</blockquote>

10 years ago | View Shared by victor
Web Design - The First 100 Years

#culture #design #future #internet #internet_of_people #talks #technology_history

10 years ago | View Shared by victor
The Honeywell Animals | Computer History Museum

#advertising #art #components #electronics #sculpture #technology #technology_history

10 years ago | View Shared by victor
Telephone Keypad Design

#design #phone #process #technology_history #telephony

10 years ago | View Shared by victor
Minitel and the French Internet: Path Dependence? by Julien Mailland :: SSRN

#censorship #france #internet_history #minitel #technology_history | <blockquote>Ten years before the invention of the Web and the popularization of the Internet, the French Minitel communication network was launched, about to become what th</blockquote>

10 years ago | View Shared by victor
Cameron's World

#art #digital_preservation #fun #geocities #gif #internet #internet_culture #technology_history #web | <blockquote>A web-collage of text and images excavated from the buried neighbourhoods of GeoCities.</blockquote>

10 years ago | View Shared by victor
Apple II Fest: la célébration d’une machine immortelle : Makery

#apple #apple_II #archival #digital_preservation #lang:fr #software_preservation #technology_history

10 years ago | View Shared by victor
The New Digital Archaeologists

#archiving #digital_archeology #preservation #technology_history

10 years ago | View Shared by victor
Steve Wozniak on why he doesn't have an Apple Watch | afr.com

#apple #technology #technology_history | <blockquote>Sometimes it's not just the ones that have academic-type knowledge to answer questions, sometimes it's the ones who have actually built projects.</blockquote>

10 years ago | View Shared by victor
Folklore.org: Round Rects Are Everywhere!

#Macintosh #design #rounded_corners #technology_history #ui

10 years ago | View Shared by victor
Adactio: Journal—Hope

#capitalism #centralisation #future #internet #open_source #open_web #opinion #technology #technology_history | <blockquote>That’s my fear. Only time will tell whether the closed or open forces will win the battle for the soul of the internet. But if we believe that centralised, proprietary, capitalistic forces are inherently unstoppable, then our belief will help make them so.</blockquote>

10 years ago | View Shared by victor
Software studies

#academic #digital_humanities #digital_preservation #research #technology_history | <blockquote>“inter-disciplinary enquiry into the nature of the culture of computational objects, practices, processes and structures”</blockquote>

10 years ago | View Shared by victor
The new technologies that will change human civilization as we know it - h+ Magazine

#3d_printing #economy #future #futurology #technology #technology_history | “In 10 years we will look back on our life today and wonder how we could have lived with such primitive technology. The gap will be bigger than between today and the 1980's.”

11 years ago | View Shared by victor
digitize.textfiles.com

#advertising #archive #computer #history #scans #technology_history

11 years ago | View Shared by victor
History of the browser user-agent string

#browser #history #internet #mozilla #technology_history #useragent

11 years ago | View Shared by victor
Keith Stuart: Preserving old games is a service to humanity | Technology | The Guardian

#archiving #digital_preservation #games #technology_history

11 years ago | View Shared by victor
Pour une archéologie des virus. Entretien avec Jussi Parikka - Cairn.info

#computing #infosec #lang:fr #security #technology_history #virus

11 years ago | View Shared by victor
BOFH

#archive #devops #humour #internet_culture #technology_history | Bastard Operator from Hell

12 years ago | View Shared by victor

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