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Vassil Nikolov> It's really stunning that it does not mention the Scheme languageSo very, very true.There are several large pieces of history in this regard that deserve not only to be published, but to be studied well.Just a properly written history of closures in computer programming would be worth its weight in gold. Even a short history.<a href="https://ieji.de/tags/Algol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Algol</a> <a href="https://ieji.de/tags/BlockStructure" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#BlockStructure</a> <a href="https://ieji.de/tags/CallByName" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CallByName</a> <a href="https://ieji.de/tags/Closures" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Closures</a> <a href="https://ieji.de/tags/HistoryOfComputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#HistoryOfComputing</a> <a href="https://ieji.de/tags/Lisp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Lisp</a> <a href="https://ieji.de/tags/Scheme" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Scheme</a><a href="https://climatejustice.social/@kentpitman" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@kentpitman</a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/@amoroso" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@amoroso</a>

Michael Piotrowski<a href="https://mas.to/@deprogrammaticaipsum" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@deprogrammaticaipsum</a> Speaking of floating point arithmetic, did you know that all of Konrad Zuse’s computers (except for the experimental Z2), starting with the Z1, used floating point?<a href="https://mastodon.acm.org/tags/ComputerHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ComputerHistory</a> <a href="https://mastodon.acm.org/tags/HistoryOfComputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#HistoryOfComputing</a>

Michael PiotrowskiJudging from my students’ reactions to this exciting program, I guess they wouldn't have bought a home computer in 1977. <a href="https://mastodon.acm.org/tags/ComputerHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ComputerHistory</a> <a href="https://mastodon.acm.org/tags/HistoryOfComputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#HistoryOfComputing</a>

Michael PiotrowskiRevue ouverte d’intelligence artificielle vol. 5, nos 2-3: Hommage à Alain Colmerauer.<a href="https://mastodon.acm.org/tags/Prolog" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Prolog</a> <a href="https://mastodon.acm.org/tags/ComputerHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ComputerHistory</a> <a href="https://mastodon.acm.org/tags/HistoryOfComputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#HistoryOfComputing</a><a href="https://roia.centre-mersenne.org/issues/ROIA_2024__5_2-3/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://roia.centre-mersenne.org/issues/ROIA_2024__5_2-3/</a>

ohthehugemanatee<a href="https://neurodifferent.me/@joshsusser" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@joshsusser</a> the history of computing is a history of engineers missing the point of dystopian futures in movies. Terminator, Gattica, Her, the Matrix, Minority Report, Blade Runner, Total Recall...Who could have predicted that the autism spectrum would play such a decisive role for our species?<a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/historyofcomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#historyofcomputing</a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/computing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#computing</a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/film" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#film</a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/dystopia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#dystopia</a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/movies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#movies</a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/ai" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ai</a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/techbro" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#techbro</a>

Michael PiotrowskiWhat’s especially interesting is that Don Chamberlin isn’t just some random IBMer (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_D._Chamberlin" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_D._Chamberlin</a>). And he wasn’t only involved with Quill SGML editor, but also with the Quilt XML query language, which heavily influenced XQuery (he was one of the editors of the W3C XQuery 1.0 recommendation).<a href="https://mastodon.acm.org/tags/XMLPrague" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#XMLPrague</a> <a href="https://mastodon.acm.org/tags/REXX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#REXX</a> <a href="https://mastodon.acm.org/tags/SGML" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SGML</a> <a href="https://mastodon.acm.org/tags/HistoryOfComputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#HistoryOfComputing</a> <a href="https://mastodon.acm.org/tags/DocumentEngineering" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DocumentEngineering</a>

Michael PiotrowskiIn my talk for the 2019 <a href="https://mastodon.acm.org/tags/XMLPrague" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#XMLPrague</a> paper “History and the Future of Markup” <a href="http://archive.xmlprague.cz/2019/files/xmlprague-2019-proceedings.pdf#page=335" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">http://archive.xmlprague.cz/2019/files/xmlprague-2019-proceedings.pdf#page=335</a> I speculated about the use of <a href="https://mastodon.acm.org/tags/REXX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#REXX</a> as a language for <a href="https://mastodon.acm.org/tags/SGML" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SGML</a> tree manipulation.Last night I “discovered” that REXX had indeed been used for this at IBM, and Goldfarb knew about it: namely in the experimental Quill editor running on an experimental windowing system on an experimental operating system on the IBM RT PC… (see, e.g., <a href="https://doi.org/10.1145/62506.62524" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://doi.org/10.1145/62506.62524</a>)<a href="https://mastodon.acm.org/tags/HistoryOfComputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#HistoryOfComputing</a> <a href="https://mastodon.acm.org/tags/DocumentEngineering" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DocumentEngineering</a>

Claudius Link<a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Help" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Help</a> need please <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Boost" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Boost</a> I'm looking for a copy of the article by Daniel Bobrow: "A Turing Test Passed" ACM SIGART Newsletter, December 1968, pp. 14–15;I can't find a digital version 😞 <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/HistoryOfComputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#HistoryOfComputing</a>The article describes an conversation of Daniels boss with <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/ELIZA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ELIZA</a> (one of the first chatbots) which went something like thisVP: Do you think that I can use the computer this morning? ELIZA: Why do you ask? VP: I might be able to make some additional telcomp sales. ELIZA: Why aren't you sure? VP: My prospective customers have never seen a demonstration of the system. ELIZA: Does this mean very much to you? VP: Of course it does. ELIZA: You seem very positive of that. VP: This is ridiculous. ELIZA: What do you mean this is ridiculous? VP: Is there any reason why I can't use the computer now? ELIZA: Tell me more about your prospective customers. VP: Call meNote that after that remark the VP left out the period. Therefore, of course, the computer didn't answer him. This so infuriated the VP, who thought I was playing games with him, that he called me up, woke me from a deep sleep, and said:Why are you being so snotty with me?What do you mean why am I being snotty to you?The VP angrily read the dialog that 'we' had been having, and couldn't get any response but laughter from me. It took me a while to convince him it really was the computer.

Simon LucyRPG was originally called FARGO and was an emulation of the electro-mechanical accounting machines to run on 1410 computers.This started IBM's reuse and resell business model of emulating previous generations of compute, language and OS which means you can run the programs written in the 60's on anything that can host an emulation.All to both retain customers and resell the same thing repeatedly to those customers.<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/HistoryOfComputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#HistoryOfComputing</a>

Amin GirasolHi! Time for an <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/introduction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#introduction</a>. I've moved from mastodon.social (where I had an account since 2019) to fluidlogic@oldbytes.space.I've long been interested in the <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/historyofcomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#historyofcomputing</a>. Right now <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#retrocomputing</a> and <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/permacomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#permacomputing</a> are piquing my interest. I think there are many excellent ideas from the early days of computing that practitioners have discarded or lost, or - worse yet, oblivious to the history of their own field - remain ignorant of.I'm appalled by the character of modern commercial computing: how it has been used to maintain and entrench existing power structures; how it co-opts the social good of free software for private profit without giving back; how ubiquitous surveillance is a business model and has become socially normalised; how computation has allowed everything, including human abstractions like attention, allegiance, knowledge, community and more to be captured for corporate profit.

Jyoti MishraIf you're in Britain and have never seen <a href="https://mas.to/tags/HaltAndCatchFire" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#HaltAndCatchFire</a>, it's now been added to <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Channel4" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Channel4</a> so now's your chance to see THE BEST TV PROGRAMME EVER MADE!<a href="https://www.channel4.com/programmes/halt-and-catch-fire" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://www.channel4.com/programmes/halt-and-catch-fire</a><a href="https://mas.to/tags/HACF" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#HACF</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/LeePace" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LeePace</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/MackenzieDavis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#MackenzieDavis</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/KerryBish%C3%A9" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#KerryBishé</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/ScootMcNairy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ScootMcNairy</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/RetroComputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#RetroComputing</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/ComputerHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ComputerHistory</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/HistoryOfComputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#HistoryOfComputing</a>

Sebastian GießmannI just realized that my talk "Trouble in Moneyland: Trajectories of Mediation in Financial Technologies" is a hybrid event. So you do not need to be at Maastricht University to join. You just have to write an email to Joeri Bruynincks: j{dot}bruyninckx{at}maastrichtuniversity{dot}nlIt is happening this Wednesday March 29th, 15:30-17:00. Feel free to join us!<a href="https://www.maastrichtsts.nl/musts-colloquium-with-sebastian-giessmann-trouble-in-moneyland-trajectories-of-mediation-in-financial-technologies/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://www.maastrichtsts.nl/musts-colloquium-with-sebastian-giessmann-trouble-in-moneyland-trajectories-of-mediation-in-financial-technologies/</a><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/fintech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#fintech</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/historyofcomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#historyofcomputing</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/STS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#STS</a>

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