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These could each be an article in themselves. :)

Nice.

I did mention AOL, as part of the "Eternal September" of Usenet (so tangentially, but still acknowledging it was there) but yeah, I did skip over some of the others. CompuSERVE was…

I self-publish my novels, and I've had steady if very low sales year after year (certainly not enough to live on) and I have friends who have chosen the small independent publisher…

I think it would be very unlikely for the web and html to arise in the current political climate, yes. It only came to be in the first place because of a massive amount of governme…

The confusion and disconnect comes from the fact that the Metaverse, by definition, cannot ever exist. Zuckerberg is chasing a fantasy. I wrote in more detail about it here [1], bu…

I think the bitmap being shown in MacPaint implied that you were supposed to create your own clip art from scratch. Which would technically be possible, if you were already a good …

The Amiga was (and still is!) an amazing machine. If you liked this article and would like to read more, I'll take this opportunity to plug my History of the Amiga series on Ars Te…

You've got it right. I was going to label the inputs in the transistors in the second animation, but it made the diagram rather crowded, so I left it out. The diagrams are simplifi…

EDIT: It looks so easy in that video! I'm not sure why I had so many problems opening the door, but I did. Maybe I'll try it again. Maybe I'll just wait a few more years to see if …

I had even less luck than this with the elevator. I couldn't open the door! Apparently it's unlike every other video game in existence, where door opening is a matter of a) walking…

In a similar vein, I watched My Thai Bride on a recommendation from a friend, and it also stuck in my head for a long time. It's about an older British man who flies to Thailand in…

I can honestly say that I love all the writing work I do. Every article I wrote for Ars Technica was a labor of love, even though I got paid. My novels are as well. I still have a …

I'm a writer. What you've said here is basically correct, but I disagree with your conclusion. In 2009 I took basically the same path that Howey is proposing here. I started self-p…

Quote: "self-publishing well is expensive (four, five digits easily)" This is basically correct, although it depends on the definition of "well". You can get a halfway decent cover…

If you really want to fall down the rabbit hole, NCommander did a thirteen-hour stream where he successfully (!!) installed OS/2 1.0 in a virtual machine (using PCem) and then upgr…

They weren't owned by Activision-- Activision was only the publisher for Destiny, and never acquired the studio. When the publishing agreement came up for renewal, Bungie and Activ…

Hello, author here! You’re right that I didn’t mention many other products in the broader PDA market. The article was about the Newton, and believe it or not, there are still word …

I don't think so. OpenDoc was a document sharing service in classic Mac OS, similar in some ways to Microsoft's OLE (Object Linking and Embedding) but somewhat more advanced. Back …

There was enough confusion in the comments over whether a folded A4 was an A5 or A6, that I figured I made the right call. :)

Author here! I'm really happy to see people getting into the nostalgia about these weird and wonderful devices. Researching the story was absolutely fascinating, and I loved gettin…

I don't think there's a good explanation out there. From what I've read, the main idea is decentralization, either of website databases using blockchain (which seems wildly impract…

The original Max Headroom was played by Matt Frewer in heavy makeup. So his eyes are Matt Frewer's eyes.

phpBB added a mobile theme that works pretty well, but many sites didn't bother to upgrade. Mostly this was because the upgrade was difficult and required multiple steps (first upd…

Thanks! I think it's just a combination of the limited graphics character set on the Heathkit, plus eight years of practice (at the time) making games using it. The stuffed animals…