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For example, it's used as a kind of internal bookmarking system. I don't necessarily star a repo because I think it has good code, but maybe a good idea or something related to something I'm interested in developing.
It should be posted under'Show HN'
It took me a second to realize it is GP's .
How Steve Wozniak exploited TV timing to bring color to the Apple II
I want to comment on something that seems important to me. In the third world, in countries where the internet arrived much later and where money was much scarcer, the effect of qmodem was quite long lasting and profitable for the tech savvy community. A PC and a modem were the support for many of the adventures and beginnings in computer science and in general to satisfy that insatiable curiosity for the computer revolution. Engineers working in big companies and using the resources of these and local volunteers installed BBS with Walnut Creek cds and other shareware CDs and gave access for the first time to that universe that we now take as evident and accessible from our phones. Without qmodem I would still be waiting for my copy of unarc!.

In my personal case, I want to also thank your father for pointing us thru it's company name to the book and movie "the forbin project" :-). In our present of promises of supercomputing AIs, maybe we should all read the book or watch the movie.

Re:A Little History of the Anchovy on Tuesday September 24, 2024 @09:40PM (#41642822)
Peruvian anchovy, the anchoveta, had and still has aprofound impact on peruvian economy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peruvian_anchoveta

By the way of Wikipedia:

"The anchoveta has been characterized as "the most heavily exploited fish in world history"

https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/183775/102904317

Re:Why Is Chile So Long? on Tuesday July 02, 2024 @01:59PM (#40858974)
Quite the contrary, the management of the different ecological floors was the specialty of the inhabitants of the Andes, even now. The same community owns and uses land at different altitudes, which can range from 1000 to 4000 meters above sea level. This generated an economy based on the exchange of goods along vertical lines.

https://haubooks.org/reciprocity-and-redistribution/

https://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/24/obituaries/24murra.html

Was it not a mailing list before a site?

I let the next guy explain what a mailing list was.

Re:The Database for Bootleg/Unauthorized Video Game Consoles on Tuesday October 10, 2023 @11:19AM (#37833193)
Here you can find thousands of Atari VCS/FC/NES/MD/SNES/GB (and more) clones, from historic bootlegs products to modern legal ones. Soft-emulator based multi-platform consoles are not supported.
Re:Israel was duped as Hamas planned devastating assault on Monday October 09, 2023 @04:44AM (#37818346)
Should we avoid this topic, at least at this time, on HN?

I really think there is a rational conversation to be had but I do not see how we could achieve such at feat without heavy moderation and even then.

Re:US Military Asks for Help Locating Missing F-35 Fighter Jet on Monday September 18, 2023 @11:22AM (#37557448)
“The Caterpillar Club is an informal association of people who have successfully used a parachute to bail out of a disabled aircraft. After authentication by the parachute maker, applicants receive a membership certificate and a distinctive lapel pin. The nationality of the person whose life was saved by parachute and ownership of the aircraft are not factors in determining qualification for membership; anybody whose life was saved by using a parachute after bailing out of a disabled aircraft is eligible. The requirement that the aircraft is disabled naturally excludes parachuting enthusiasts in the normal course of a recreational jump, or those involved in military training jumps.“

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caterpillar_Club

Re:Pegasus Mail on Friday August 04, 2023 @02:28AM (#36996166)
does anybody remembers dialing up to a Unix server to uucp your organization’s emails and using Pegasus DOS to make it available thru netware?
Re:Simula the Forgotten Programming Language on Monday July 03, 2023 @02:10AM (#36569447)
Both Algol and Simula were ported to the 68000’s Atari ST. I remember having a box of diskettes with implementations of forth, modula , lisp, prolog, smalltalk.

I miss the those times when using a computer meant ‘programming on a computer’, and programming on a computer meant trying to find your foot on any of a dozen languages popping left and right.

Re:DESKTOP2 – A Graphical User Interface for DOS on Monday May 29, 2023 @09:29AM (#36113752)
Check out ztreewin. It’s xtree gold only windows native.

https://www.ztree.com/

Re:DESKTOP2 – A Graphical User Interface for DOS on Monday May 29, 2023 @09:27AM (#36113727)
Xtreegold reincarnated in ztreewin https://www.ztree.com/. It is not free but it is a native windows program. There is even a fan page with a list of clones resembling more or less to xtree https://www.xtreefanpage.org/x63clone.htm
I understand the technical marvel, but there are obvious inconsistencies in all the images and I would call them more animations than video sequences.
I'll share the first entry:

January 11, 1993 [San Francisco]

Jake let me sneak a peek at this month's sales numbers. Guess I can go ahead and buy a car after all.

OP here, I am not an US native but it still is inexcusable. I cannot edit the post anymore, so thank You for posting the correct abbreviation.
Even the cheapest electronics/computing ads nowadays taught me something. From memorizing electronic components codes to watch microcomputers slowly develop capabilities that only minis had. Ads where also window into an industry and hobby arms race.
Re:Prof. Abraham Lempel has died (the L in LZW compression) on Tuesday February 07, 2023 @07:24AM (#34691805)
Ditto

Also, GIF runs on LZW.

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