VirtualTam's bookmarks

  1. IO devices and latency - The history, functionality, and performance of non-volatile storage devices
    2025-06-02
    hardware/cpu storage/cache storage/disk storage/solid-state-drive storage/tape throughput time/latency visualization/animation
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  2. Sid Meier's C.P.U. Bach - An interactive music-generating program
    2025-05-11
    game/emulator music/classical procedural-generation
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  3. UNIX Magic Poster Annotations
    2025-05-10
    gnu history poster unix wizard
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  4. Admixfrog - A HMM to infer ancestry frogments (fragments) from low-coverage, contaminated data.
    2025-05-10
    ethnology genetics probability programming/c programming/c++ programming/python programming/r science statistics
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  5. The hardest working font in Manhattan
    2025-05-10
    city history text/font
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  6. Get Lamp - A documentary about adventures in text
    2025-01-21
    command-line documentary game/interactive-fiction history
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  7. Zork: The Great Inner Workings
    2025-01-21
    command-line game/interactive-fiction game/zork history parser programming/c programming/fortran programming/go programming/lisp
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    It is pitch black. You are likely to be eaten by a grue.

  8. Nokia Design Archive
    2025-01-19
    design electronics history microsoft/windows mobile/symbian nokia phone
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  9. UsenetArchives - One of the most extensive archives of Usenet newsgroups on the Internet
    2024-12-08
    bulletin-board-system forum/usenet history storage/tape text
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  10. EphemeraSearch - Your ancestors had mail
    2024-12-03
    database/postgresql genealogy history image/optical-character-recognition linux/container/kubernetes mail/postcard programming/go search-engine
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  11. ElectroPortis - The famous SGI/IRIX ElectroPaint(tm) screensaver by David Tristram, ported to Windows
    2024-11-26
    art graphics/2d programming/c programming/c++ programming/javascript screensaver
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  12. jwzhacks
    2024-11-26
    feed/rss history jwz linux network/http programming/c programming/perl programming/php unix
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    I have written a lot of software. I used to do it for fun. Then I started getting paid for it. Then it stopped being fun. Then I stopped getting paid for it. And now I write software sometimes for fun, but mostly in self-defense.

  13. XScreenSaver - A collection of free screen savers for X11, macOS, iOS and Android, by Jamie Zawinski and many others
    2024-11-26
    graphics/2d graphics/3d history jwz linux/x11 screensaver
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  14. Apple II graphics: More than you wanted to know
    2024-11-22
    apple/apple-ii computer electronics graphics history
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  15. Leonhard Euler's letters to a German Princess
    2024-11-22
    history language/french mathematics writing
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  16. ElizabethanDrama.org - Making Elizabethan Plays Understandable and Fun to Read
    2024-11-22
    book history literature theater/play
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  17. Two Hundred Fifty Things a Game Designer Should Know
    2024-11-22
    art computer creativity design game history poetry programming
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  18. Michael Sorkin - Two Hundred Fifty Things an Architect Should Know
    2024-11-22
    architecture creativity geography history poetry society
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  19. The Annotated Hacker Test | For those of us who didn't receive a case of beer with our computer.
    2024-11-19
    computer hardware/cpu hardware/ram history nerd programming/assembly programming/c programming/pascal unix
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  20. The Effect of CRTs on Pixel Art - On Cathode Ray Tubes, nostalgia and anachronisms
    2024-11-19
    art/pixel-art game history image/dithering monitor/crt
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