Global Wahrman

Tom McMahon is putting a variety of historical materials on the Internet Archive where it may, perhaps, survive the collapse of our civiliza...

draft JOSS was the RAND Corporation's internally developed timesharing system to permit one computer to be used by many people (research...

draft /. a friend has pointed out that the development of lisp needs to be elaborated upon here and I agree with him.   So that will be wri...

This is all just going to be rewritten. A friend of mine, Terrance Masson, hosted an event at SIGGRAPH 2014 to tell some of the storie...

What to do when people attack you on the Internet?   There are many techniques possible including revenge, laughter, threats of violence (...

When Craig Reynolds sent me a link to  Tom Bombadil's Facebook Page  I did not at first realize why he asked about this person. ...

It seems certain that a mistake has been made on the public policy issue of who uses computers and what they are permitted to use them fo...

[Update 2-11-2014  My correspondents in Berlin tell me that Harvey and Bob Weinstein are on the very top level of the Hilton .... whereas ...

Every once in a while (maybe every year, for all I know), the NSA (1) has been sponsoring a symposium on the history of Cryptology. Th...

[6/28/2013 See comments at end from MIT Alumni that fill in some details here] This is the story of how an early multiperson computer g...

From hope to despair, then to hope, then to despair again, is that the fate of all civilizations? To give in to sloth and decay, their ...

Once upon a time, a long time ago, April 7, 1964 to be exact, IBM announced the System 360 family of computers.  (1) It was a bold move,...

v 0.1 Beta  3/10/2013 [in progress] Tired of being told words over the phone that you can not spell correctly and have the person on...