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Yes, it's a big problem. I call it "agency laundering" and I first mentioned it in this article last year: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2025/08/is-ai... Treating …

That's really neat. I had no idea there was a Byte Shop in Greensboro. My wife's family is from that area. I live in Raleigh, NC. Now I am wondering if my nerdy father-in-law ever …

Are you related to Paul? I noticed the last name. :)

Thank you, glad you enjoyed it.

I agree. Archives shutting down creates a huge risk for what I call "historical context attacks" in the future, similar to what you're describing. It's about generating false histo…

If anyone is curious, in 2009, I discovered that Jim Storer was the author of the first Lunar Lander game and interviewed him about it (and also chronicled the history of the game …

This is a fun post, I appreciate the mentions. Matt missed my later piece from How-To Geek where I talked to Stan Honey and the Etak engineers again, then interviewed Asteroids des…

If you enjoyed this, back in 2015 I wrote a feature about Lore Harp McGovern and her business partners for Fast Company that goes into the creation of Vector Graphic in detail: htt…

Fully-human author here. I wrote it as a joke (a play on a common phrase), since numeric keypads were often used as data entry for accountants and people using spreadsheets.

I dislike this too, although I can understand arguments for it in software that keeps iterating and (hopefully) improving over time. I wrote an article about this issue for How-To …

Those dates were typos and have been fixed. Discmaster launched on Oct 18th.

I asked Woz about the TV Typewriter before. In an email to me once, he said he had not heard about it at the time. https://twitter.com/benjedwards/status/1303784698662055936?s...