donkeyFeb 4
Happy birthday #KenThompson - 83 years young today!
Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻‍💻🧬Jan 2
#KenThompson Recalls #Unix’s Rowdy, Lock-Picking Origins
Thompson's vivid recollection of rowdy roomful of geeks at #BellLabs who built the digital world in a spirit of open play.
What comes through is his gratefulness for people he’d worked with, and opportunity they’d had to all experiment together in an open environment to explore the limits of new and emerging technologies. It’s a tale of curiosity, a playful sense of serendipity and the enduring value of a community.
https://thenewstack.io/ken-thompson-recalls-unixs-rowdy-lock-picking-origins/
Ken Thompson Recalls Unix's Rowdy, Lock-Picking Origins

Ken Thompson's vivid recollection of the rowdy roomful of geeks at Bell Labs who built the digital world in a spirit of open play.

The New Stack
RetrópolisDec 18

UNIX Programmer Manual em PDF.

https://retropolis.com.br/2025/12/18/unix-programmer-manual-em-pdf/

#MundoRetro #DennisRitchie #Download #KenThompson #Livro #PDF #UNIX #UNIXProgrammersManual

UNIX Programmer Manual em PDF. - Retrópolis

Falamos sempre que podemos sobre o UNIX por aqui, até já fizemos episódios e lives a respeito... E em 1971, o Bell Labs soltou a primeira edição do Unix Programmer's Manual, de autoria de Ken Thompson e Dennis Ritchie. O perfil do Laboratório de Ciência da Computação e Inteligência Artificial (CSAIL) do MIT no X

Retrópolis - A cidade dos clássicos
ITs History!Nov 20
The large gap in #OShistory was almost closed when a tape labeled #UNIX Edition 4 was rediscovered at the #University of #Utah, #USA.
https://archive.org/details/utah_unix_v4_raw

This #legendary #OS was the first Unix written in #C by #DennisRitchie with #KenThompson, but it got lost over years of digital memory shortages.
https://youtu.be/-xlq_MPWNKk

#IT #retrocomputing #illustration made in #SVG with #Inkscape #FOSS on #Linux
N-gated Hacker NewsNov 16
🤔 Oh, Russ Cox, you've saved us from the cutting-edge topic of... 1983! 🕰️ Let's revisit a lecture old enough to vote, because who doesn't love reminiscing about supply chain security with Ken Thompson, the granddaddy of trust issues? 🎩🔧
https://research.swtch.com/nih #HackerNews #RussCox #SupplyChainSecurity #KenThompson #TechHistory #HackerNews #ngated
research!rsc: Running the “Reflections on Trusting Trust” Compiler

Ecologistas en Acción MálagaNov 16
Libro Filosofía ante la crisis ecológica, de Marta Tafalla (resumen)
https://blogsostenible.wordpress.com/2022/08/17/libro-filosofia-ante-la-crisis-ecologica-de-marta-tafalla-tafallamarta-resumen/
#Androcentrismo, #Animales, #Antropocentrismo, #CrisisAmbiental, #CrisisClimática, #Ecofeminismo, #EnfermedadZoonótica, #KenThompson, #Macrogranjas, #MartaTafalla, #Rewilding, #SolucionesALaCrisis, #ValPlumwood
@blogsostenible
#ProfesPorElFuturoRadio3
Libro Filosofía ante la crisis ecológica, de Marta Tafalla @TafallaMarta (resumen), Ed. @plazayvaldes

Un libro lleno de ciencia asequible y de inspiración desbordante. Esencial, de lectura cómoda y también urgente (Plaza y Valdés, 2022). Marta Tafalla —autora también del magnífico Ecoanimal— aporta…

BlogSOStenible: Noticias medioambientales y datos... aportando soluciones
रञ्जित (Ranjit Mathew)Nov 1

This was a well-spent 4.5 hours 🙇🏽🤩:

“Oral History Of Ken Thompson” [2025], Computer History Museum (https://youtu.be/OmVHkL0IWk4).

“A Computing Legend Speaks”, David Brock, CHM (https://computerhistory.org/blog/a-computing-legend-speaks/).

#Unix #BellLabs #C #OralHistory #ComputerHistory #KenThompson

Oral History of Ken Thompson

YouTube
Hacker NewsOct 26

Ken Thompson recalls Unix's rowdy, lock-picking origins

https://thenewstack.io/ken-thompson-recalls-unixs-rowdy-lock-picking-origins/

#HackerNews #KenThompson #UnixHistory #TechInnovation #SoftwareDevelopment #LockPicking

Ken Thompson Recalls Unix's Rowdy, Lock-Picking Origins

Ken Thompson's vivid recollection of the rowdy roomful of geeks at Bell Labs who built the digital world in a spirit of open play.

The New Stack
anon_4601Aug 19, 2025

The Code: Story of GNU + Linux
(2001)
Complete Documentary
[Subs: ENG, ESP]

#Linus #Linux #GNU #FreeSoftware #OpenSource #GNUProject
#LinusTorvalds #RichardStallman #KenThompson #TheCode #DennisRitchie #AlanCox

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x8q1zol

Dailymotion

fraggleJul 18, 2025

In the early 70s, Ken Thompson wrote the original Unix shell by hand, giving users a simple but powerful interface to control the system. It allowed commands to be chained, redirected, and scripted, laying the foundation for nearly every terminal-based environment that followed. Even now, shells like sh, bash, and zsh all trace their lineage back to Thompson’s early work.

#UnixHistory #KenThompson #ShellScripting #CommandLineRoots