Comment by WillAdams

Comment by WillAdams 3 days ago

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Arguably, _The Jargon File_:

http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/index.html

and _Zen and the Art of the Internet_

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/34

should be a part of the school curriculum covering the internet.

While specific to the Mac, one wishes:

https://folklore.org/0-index.html

https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/40492.Revolution_in_T...

was more widely read (and that it was updated with stories of turning OPENSTEP into Mac OS X), and if there is a similar site for Windows which collected stories such as:

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2006/06/16/my-first-billg-rev...

piltdownman 3 days ago

Folklore.org starts off as an engaging and fascinating whistle-stop tour of a bunch of mad geniuses creating a personal computing revolution.

It ends up being a series of cautionary tales about Steve Jobs from a defeated and depressed Woz. Mostly about how he can't understand how someone can act so devoid of empathy.

StableAlkyne 3 days ago

I wish the jargon file was still updated, it's such an interesting window into the compsci culture back then