Two Stop Bits | splorp's submissions

The Size of Adobe Reader Installers Through The Years (2025) (adobe acrobat software bloat timeline) (sigwait.org)
2 points by splorp 11 hours ago | discuss
The day Return became Enter (2023) (keyboard historical backstory input) (aresluna.org)
3 points by splorp 11 hours ago | discuss
Everyone knows what an email address is, right? (email validation rfc standards quiz) (e-mail.wtf | ia)
1 point by splorp 7 days ago | discuss
How many BeBox can you have in one room? (2025) (beos bebox event exhibit occc) (haiku-os.org | ia)
9 points by splorp 8 days ago | 6 comments
Commodore Amiga turns 40, headlines UK exhibition (2025) (historical amiga commodore anniversary exhibition uk) (theregister.com | ia)
5 points by splorp 11 days ago | 1 comment
Code-Card Corner (teletype code telecom interchange reference) (rtty.com | ia)
7 points by splorp 14 days ago | discuss
8×19 Text Mode Font Origins (2025) (typography font intel bios vga text) (os2museum.com | ia)
8 points by splorp 14 days ago | discuss
Free-Net History: The Rise and Fall of Community Dial-Up (2022) (historical freenet dialup internet access online) (tedium.co | ia)
3 points by splorp 16 days ago | discuss
Rollercoaster Tycoon (or, MicroProse’s Last Hurrah) (2025) (historical game software microprose) (filfre.net | ia)
9 points by splorp 25 days ago | discuss
A Conversation with James Gosling (2004) (historical interview sun java) (acm.org | ia)
2 points by splorp 36 days ago | discuss
The Network is the Computer (2007) (sun networking ad advertisement slogan) (youtube.com | ia)
6 points by splorp 41 days ago | 6 comments
Fonts Before Mac (1983) (historical font typography bitmap susankare mac) (tinkerdifferent.com | ia)
9 points by splorp 50 days ago | 1 comment
Building My Own Paper Tape Punch (2025) (papertape peripheral diy hardware storage hangingchads) (unimplementedtrap.com | ia)
4 points by splorp 67 days ago | discuss
Do Not Fold, Spindle or Mutilate: A Cultural History of the Punch Card (1992) (historical punchcard dataprocessing hollerith) (mun.ca | ia)
7 points by splorp 73 days ago | 1 comment
Resurrecting a dead torrent tracker and finding 3 million peers (2025) (bittorrent torrent protocol network peertopeer filesharing) (kianbradley.com | ia)
1 point by splorp 73 days ago | discuss
Alan Turing's seminal papers head to auction (2025) (turing historical auction research phd) (livescience.com | ia)
5 points by splorp 81 days ago | discuss
Oral History of Bas Ording (2017) (ui apple aqua interface design interview) (computerhistory.org | ia)
2 points by splorp 88 days ago | 1 comment
ResourceForks.com — browse resource forks online (2023) (mac macos resource fork data extraction resedit) (resourceforks.com | ia)
6 points by splorp 91 days ago | discuss
1-bit rainbow (retrocomputing parts hardware vintage apple mac) (1bitrainbow.com | ia)
3 points by splorp 92 days ago | discuss
Soups on the Newton (newton soup objects programming data storage) (canicula.com | ia)
7 points by splorp 94 days ago | discuss
Joshintosh Merges Vintage Mac and Powerful PC (2025) (mac pc case hardware recycle maker unsettling) (makezine.com | ia)
5 points by splorp 95 days ago | discuss
Lo8: Resurrecting 8-track as a data storage medium (2013) (hardware tape cartridge data storage peripheral) (cassettepunk.com | ia)
6 points by splorp 99 days ago | 4 comments
CRT-based dialogs: Theory and design (1990) (crt displays dialogs dialogues interfaces jonathanlevine) (rit.edu)
4 points by splorp 103 days ago | 1 comment
GUIdebook: Graphical User Interface Gallery (2006) (ui timeline interface gallery screenshots historical) (guidebookgallery.org | ia)
4 points by splorp 105 days ago | discuss
Font memories of old Macs (2025) (fonts mac macos bitmap geneva imagewriter wysiwyg) (leancrew.com | ia)
2 points by splorp 106 days ago | discuss
Apple II Scroll Block Demo (2025) (appleii demo animation lores graphics) (deater.net | ia)
8 points by splorp 108 days ago | discuss
A brief history of fonts in Mac OS (2025) (historical typography font macos bitmap postscript truetype) (eclecticlight.co | ia)
6 points by splorp 111 days ago | discuss
808 lines of BBC BASIC and a dream: Arm architecture turns 40 (2025) (bbc cpu historical arm architecture) (theregister.com | ia)
7 points by splorp 123 days ago | discuss
Still browsing like it's 1999: Fresh tools that keep vintage Macs online (2025) (retrocomputing mac software browser) (theregister.com | ia)
5 points by splorp 136 days ago | discuss
Museum digs up Digital Equipment Corporation's dusty digital equipment (2025) (historical dec pdp exhibition uk) (theregister.com | ia)
4 points by splorp 150 days ago | discuss
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