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Unbeaten Tracks in Japan by Isabella L. Bird | Project Gutenberg
Touring Japan - with a focus on several of the central farming areas and Hokkaido - as a solo female traveller in the summer of 1878. Well-written, sympathetic (well, about as much as could be expected at the time) and overall an interesting overview of many aspects of Japanese society at the time.
[ih] early networking: "the solution"
Jack Haverty on the invention of the IPv4 checksum algorithm.
to checksum history ip networking ... on 17 October 2024
research!rsc: Running the “Reflections on Trusting Trust” Compiler
With analysis of the surprisingly short source code.
to backdoor bell-labs compiler history retrocomputing security unix ... on 26 October 2023
The Mystery of the Bloomfield Bridge
Answering a seemingly trivial question, with a lesson about research.
to amusements history research transport ... on 29 August 2023
beggars-opera: I don’t know if I can contain...
"A Christmas Carol covers 60 years of fashion through flashbacks and they still manage to do nearly everything right."
to amusements fashion history muppets ... on 10 December 2020
ENIGMA M4 - Breaking German Navy Ciphers
Results of the project that was breaking Enigma messages found in a sunken U-Boot.
POSTFADE – ABOUT BROADCAST AND RECORDED SOUND
Stories from an ex-Anglia and LWT broadcast sound person. Some great photos of events he worked on.
to anglia audio history lwt retrotech tv ... on 17 August 2020
Nostalgia for SS Jaguar & Pre-war Television
"... the first Marconi/EMI television receivers and the Emitron Camera."
to camera emi history marconi retrotech tv video ... on 17 August 2020
"Scripts to mechanically recover 2.11BSD and create a git repo of all the deltas to the 2.11 branch."
to bsd git history pdp11 retrocomputing ... on 25 July 2020
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tasty by Adam Sampson.