hi - a message from Aug 2013.... this is a page from 1994, left unedited but active. Enjoy?

Computer Science
Historical Anecdotes and Essays

Classic Folklore and Stories

• The Story of Mel - A Programmer.

• The Loginataka - A dialogue between a Guru and a newbie

• Unix Horror Stories

• Vaxen Don't Belong Everywhere  

• Old Iron At Home

• Me and My PDP11

• The Great School of Flames

• Computer Folklore and Rumours (A collection)

• Famous Computer Bugs

History of Usenet

• The Great Renaming - The events leading up to the adaptation of the current UseNet hierarchy, and who's, why's, and how's.

• Part II: 1985 to 1990

• Part III: The Net explosion

Letters

• An Open Letter To Hobbyists from Bill Gates (1976)

• Spaf's Farewell Letter - One of the Usenet originals.

Links

• A Brief History of Microsoft and the Evolution of Windows  Added at the suggestion of Adrian Faulk and the great students of North Mountain Institute in Arizona (Great work!) 2024.03.21 :-)

• Cloud Computing and Data Storage History  Added at the suggestion of Payton 2022/02/04 :-)

• Computer History Timeline  Added at the suggestion of T&K Kelly 2016/02/08 :-)

• Cap'n Crunch's Website!  Cap'n Crunch is a living legend

• Images of Historic Computers - Stored at the US Army Research Lab (Required a PNG viewer)

• The Jargon File - Hackers Dictionary as maintained by Eric S. Raymond