Two Stop Bits | splorp's submissions

Easy Pop-Up Menus for System 6! (2025) (code mac macos system6 popup gui interface) (amendhub.com | ia)
3 points by splorp 1 day ago | discuss
I made a website with Apple iWeb in 2025 (web apple software iweb retrocomputing) (spacebar.news | ia)
3 points by splorp 3 days ago | discuss
Toasty Squadron (2025) (mac screensaver flyingtoasters reimagining software) (pudding.studio | ia)
2 points by splorp 4 days ago | discuss
A digital dark age? Rescuing forgotten knowledge trapped on old floppy disks (2025) (floppy diskettes data datarecovery cambridge) (bbc.com | ia)
6 points by splorp 9 days ago | discuss
Boards of Canada “Olson” on a 1959 PDP-1 Computer (music papertape pdp programming video) (youtube.com | ia)
7 points by splorp 10 days ago | discuss
Unboxing Newton Press – Apple’s Text Authoring Software for the Newton (apple newton publishing software retrocomputing) (research.reisen)
6 points by splorp 11 days ago | discuss
NFS at 40: Remembering the Sun Microsystems Network File System (2025) (nfs filesystem sun historical sunmicrosystems) (nfs40.online | ia)
3 points by splorp 20 days ago | 1 comment
The OldOS Project: Recreating iOS 4 in SwiftUI (ios rebuild operatingystem project retrocomputing) (github.com | ia)
3 points by splorp 29 days ago | discuss
Jef Raskin’s cul-de-sac and the quest for the humane computer (2025) (raskin canon cat swyft apple historical backstory ui) (arstechnica.com | ia)
8 points by splorp 30 days ago | 4 comments
For love of pixels (2024) (pixelart pixel icon design bitmapped) (zeldman.com | ia)
2 points by splorp 42 days ago | discuss
Funhouse Mirror Macs: The Mac clone program (2025) (mac hardware clone historical backstory) (tedium.co | ia)
6 points by splorp 46 days ago | discuss
The Size of Adobe Reader Installers Through The Years (2025) (adobe acrobat software bloat timeline) (sigwait.org | ia)
6 points by splorp 51 days ago | 2 comments
The day Return became Enter (2023) (keyboard historical backstory input) (aresluna.org | ia)
14 points by splorp 51 days ago | 1 comment
Everyone knows what an email address is, right? (email validation rfc standards quiz) (e-mail.wtf | ia)
1 point by splorp 57 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 59 days ago | 9 comments
Commodore Amiga turns 40, headlines UK exhibition (2025) (historical amiga commodore anniversary exhibition uk) (theregister.com | ia)
6 points by splorp 62 days ago | 1 comment
Code-Card Corner (teletype code telecom interchange reference) (rtty.com | ia)
7 points by splorp 64 days ago | discuss
8×19 Text Mode Font Origins (2025) (typography font intel bios vga text) (os2museum.com | ia)
8 points by splorp 65 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 67 days ago | discuss
Rollercoaster Tycoon (or, MicroProse’s Last Hurrah) (2025) (historical game software microprose) (filfre.net | ia)
9 points by splorp 76 days ago | discuss
A Conversation with James Gosling (2004) (historical interview sun java) (acm.org | ia)
2 points by splorp 87 days ago | discuss
The Network is the Computer (2007) (sun networking ad advertisement slogan) (youtube.com | ia)
6 points by splorp 92 days ago | 6 comments
Fonts Before Mac (1983) (historical font typography bitmap susankare mac) (tinkerdifferent.com | ia)
9 points by splorp 101 days ago | 1 comment
Building My Own Paper Tape Punch (2025) (papertape peripheral diy hardware storage hangingchads) (unimplementedtrap.com | ia)
4 points by splorp 118 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 124 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 124 days ago | discuss
Alan Turing's seminal papers head to auction (2025) (turing historical auction research phd) (livescience.com | ia)
5 points by splorp 132 days ago | discuss
Oral History of Bas Ording (2017) (ui apple aqua interface design interview) (computerhistory.org | ia)
2 points by splorp 139 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 142 days ago | discuss
1-bit rainbow (retrocomputing parts hardware vintage apple mac) (1bitrainbow.com | ia)
3 points by splorp 143 days ago | discuss
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