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Still remember the moment full web browsing came to the iPhone—felt like the entire web was finally in my pocket. deno.com/blog/history-o…

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We are saddened to share the passing of CHM Fellow Thomas Eugene Kurtz, co-creator of the BASIC programming language and Dartmouth Timesharing System. Read more about his remarkable life and contributions on our blog: hubs.li/Q02Yh8Xq0

I recently posted one of the episodes on hacker news: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=400612… There are good comments worth reading :-)

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In addition, he refined the binary number system, which is the foundation of all digital computers we use today.

In 1685, while enhancing Pascal's calculator with automatic multiplication and division capabilities, he described  a pinwheel calculator and invented the Leibniz wheel, which was used in all mechanical calculators for three centuries before the advent of electronic calculators.

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1716) was a German philosopher and mathematician who is known as a pioneer in the field of mechanical calculators.

10. Dennis Ritchie: A journey through C and Unix medium.com/fosscomics/10-…

The Minix book Linus was reading is Operating Systems: Design and Implementation, by Andrew S. Tanenbaum.

As I read the Minix book and started to understand Unix, I got a big enthusiastic jolt. Frankly, it’s never subsided. (I hope you can say the same about something.) - Linus Torvalds, Just for fun, 2001

Pascal’s calculator could also perform multiplication and division through repeated addition or subtraction. In particular, he designed the carry mechanism, which adds 1 to 9 on one dial, and carries 1 to the next dial when the first dial changes from 9 to 0.

Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) was a French mathematician, physicist, scientist, inventor, philosopher and Catholic writer who invented the first mechanical calculator in 1642. This calculator provided basic addition and subtraction functions.

7. ITS and hacker culture by @joone link.medium.com/gRdEMaD5Qvb

4. How did people write code in the early days of computing? by @joone link.medium.com/ClJGyxqEtvb

3. The Era of Commercial Computers link.medium.com/ZBCNerbCSX