Author, tech correspondent, and tech columnist David Pogue will talk about his new book, “Apple: The First 50 Years” when he speaks at PMUG’s zoom meeting tonight! Limited non-member “seats” available. More: https://bit.ly/3NvECEH

#davidPogue #author #apple #apple50 #techHistory #computerHistory

Vannevar Bush wrote "As We May Think" in 1945. In it, he imagined a device called the "memex" that would store all of a person's books, records, and communications, and let them create trails of linked information between documents.

He was describing the internet, hypertext, and search engines decades before any of them existed.

If you want to understand where our entire digital world came from, this 80-year-old essay is still the clearest blueprint.

#AI #ComputerHistory #VannevarBush

Tech author David Pogue talks about his new book, “Apple: The First 50 Years” when he speaks at PMUG’s zoom meeting next Tuesday, April 14. Non-member “seats” available. More: https://bit.ly/3NvECEH

#davidPogue #author #apple #appleHistory #computerHistory

A bit of #ComputerHistory:

It is approaching 25 years since Peruvian congressman Ser Edgar David Villanueva Núñez introduced Proposition 1609.

https://moglen.law.columbia.edu/CPC/archive/cyber-archive/fud-Msoft/Interview-of-Peruvian-FUD-Rebutter.html

This was a huge deal in the world of computing at the time, but is largely forgotten today, with largely no follow-up in the history books beyond 2002.

#FreeSoftware #OpenSource #history #Peru #PeruvianLaw