Ricordate quando per aggiornare un telefono serviva un centro assistenza? Un viaggio nella storia degli update Apple: dalla schiavitù di iTunes per iPod e i primi iPhone, fino alla libertà degli aggiornamenti OTA. Un'evoluzione che ha cambiato tutto #Apple #iOS #TechHistory

https://www.melamorsicata.it/2025/08/11/storia-aggiornamenti-software-apple-ota/

Dear Fediverse! Being German, I'm quite familiar with German computer magazines. But not with the UK and US world. What were the “professional level” computer magazines in ca. 1980-2010 which wrote about enterprise IT, Unix, supercomputers, hardware? I'm NOT (yet) interested in software engineering or programming languages and also not very much in Linux.

I already know BYTE magazine, Unix Review and several 8bit related magazines. What else? #vintagecomputing #retrocomputing #techhistory

I still have my Vesper writing app downloaded to my phone. I feel like there's a really cool, if not heartbreaking story, around the failure of this app.

Vesper launched just before the cloud took over everything, and before subscriptions were the default business model.

#techhistory

https://daringfireball.net/2016/08/vesper_adieu

Happy Birthday to the venerable MOS 6502

https://hackaday.com/2025/08/04/happy-birthday-6502/ #6502

«How to Write a Computer Manual» found by accident on one of my many wanderings through the internet. The half-title says “Jonathan Price and the staff of the User Education Group in the Apple II Division of Apple Computer, Inc.” The book was released in 1984. #vintagecomputing #retrocomputing #documentarian #techhistory

Friday at the @internetarchive: a special screening of SEEKING MAVIS BEACON. The documentary investigates the disappearance & legacy of one of the most iconic faces in tech history.

Aug. 8
6:00 PM doors open
300 Funston Ave, SF
https://blog.archive.org/event/screening-seeking-mavis-beacon-documentary/

After the screening, stay for a Q&A & "preserve-a-thon" to learn how to upload items to the Internet Archive, so bring a laptop!

David Pogue celebra i 50 anni di Apple con un nuovo libro: "Apple: The First 50 Years". L'opera promette storie inedite, foto e interviste sul percorso dell'azienda.

»Blogs werden immer mehr zu einer wichtigen Wegstation auf der Customer Journey« titelte der eco im August 2015 ein Interview mit Tim Cole, dem womöglich ersten Blogger des Internets. Anlass war, dass sein Blog cole.de damals 20 Jahre alt wurde.

https://www.eco.de/news/blogs-werden-immer-mehr-zu-einer-wichtigen-wegstation-auf-der-customer-journey-2/
#vintagecomputing #techhistory#technikgeschichte #blog

Long before algorithms ruled, John McCarthy asked the forbidden question:

Can machines think?

He coined “AI” when it was still science fiction — in the 1950s.

https://brewminate.com/john-mccarthy-and-the-first-discussions-of-artificial-intelligence-in-the-1950s/

Freunde der elektronischen Musik kennen Wendy Carlos. Sie veröffentlichte 1968 die Platte "Switched on Bach", auf der sie Bach-Stücke mit einem Moog-Synthesizer interpretiert. Die es damals überhaupt erst 3-4 Jahre gab. Das Computer-Magazin Compute! hat im Heft 01/1986 ein längliches Interview mit Frau Carlos. Nachzulesen beim @internetarchive

Ein paar Seiten MIDI und Frank Zappa sind auch noch mit dabei, enjoy: https://archive.org/details/1986-01-compute-magazine/page/n37/mode/1up #vintagecomputing #techhistory #analogsynth #wendycarlos

AI Fact of the Day...
#AI #Robotics #TechHistory #Innovation #ArtificialIntelligence #ThrowbackTech

Hitting the road shortly for INIT HELLO, the new Apple II conference at the System Source Computer Museum in Baltimore. Fun, retro weekend ahead!

https://init-hello.org

Matterport walkthrough of the original Microsoft Building 3

https://my.matterport.com/show/?m=SZSV6vjcf4L

The Curious Case of the Unix workstation layout

https://thejpster.org.uk/blog/blog-2025-07-19/

What the Internet Was Like in 1998

https://cybercultural.com/p/internet-1998/

CP/M Creator Gary Kildall's Memoirs Released as Free Download

https://spectrum.ieee.org/cpm-creator-gary-kildalls-memoirs-released-as-free-download

“20 Years at the Edge of Tech and Audio” — Matt Levine interviews podcast pioneer Leo Laporte on the birth of podcasting, the rise of tech media networks and more. Listen here: https://www.theanycast.com/20-years-at-the-edge-of-tech-and-audio-with-leo-laporte/ #Podcasting #TechHistory

It took 45 years, but spreadsheet legend Mitch Kapor finally got his MIT degree

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2025/06/24/business/mitch-kapor-mit-degree-bill-aulet/

Commodore 64 Ultimate

https://www.commodore.net

Hier gibt es doch bestimmt auch Menschen mit Ahnung in Architekturgeschichte: mit welchen europäischen Stadtplanern ab so grob der Gründerzeit bis heute lohnt es denn, sich mal eine Weile zu beschäftigen? #technikgeschichte #techhistory