Holiday greetings, PLATO 1970s-style

(And for those who have not bought and devoured with delight and then reviewed with five stars my book, ECS is Extended Core Storage, or, basically, computer memory, which was always in short supply on PLATO)

#computerhistory #retrocomputing #plato

Warm yourself by the virtual fireplace in this cosy 8-bit #Christmas scene. No MS-DOS or floppy 💾 drive required to stoke this very 1980s hearth. Thanks to software preservation, the flames are still crackling on the Internet Archive.

✉️ Open the full 1986 Sierra On-Line "A Computer Christmas" card ⤵️
https://archive.org/details/sierra-christmas-card-1986

#RetroComputing #VintageComputing #8bit #SoftwarePreservation #ComputerHistory

Was "Inspector Dangerfuck," an ANSI art series by Eerie, really the "first known comic on the internet" as claimed in a 2006 book?

Probably not.

But there's some fascinating history to untangle! Check out Part 1 of my new series, "ANSI art and webcomics"!

https://breakintochat.com/blog/2025/12/24/ansi-art-and-webcomics-filling-in-the-blanks/

#ansiart #textmode #retrocomputing #vintagecomputing #computerhistory #history #longreads #ibmpc

Adobe Photoshop 1.0 Source Code (2013)

https://computerhistory.org/blog/adobe-photoshop-source-code/

#HackerNews #AdobePhotoshop #SourceCode #ComputerHistory #TechHistory #VintageSoftware #CreativeSoftware

Remembering back when Sun Microsystems installed new-fangled line of sight laser data links on all their (new) Mountain View buildings to improve network connectivity, and discovered a few months later that it all crashed irredeemably when the fog rolled in.

#ComputerHistory