#история
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Black on black: how a goth fan "broke" Windows 3.1
Microsoft's Raymond Chen explains how Windows handles black-screen complaints today. He also recalls an old support call where the culprit turned out to be not a driver but a user's flawlessly consistent taste.
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Pick: A Living Fossil of Computer History
The piece presents the Pick operating system as a kind of "living fossil" — a technology that has survived into the present from an early era of computing.
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Why 0xCAFEBABE: the story behind Java's class-file magic number
Every Java class file begins with the four bytes 0xCAFEBABE. In 1996 programmer Bill Venners wondered where the value came from — and got an answer from one of the language's creators.
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GPT-6 Astra decodes a WWI German radiogram
The new-generation language model cracked an ADFGVX cipher that had gone unsolved for over a century — and checked its own work against the historical record along the way.
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Claude Fable 5.1 cracked a riddle that had held out for 370 years
In a single day, the Claude Fable 5.1 language model broke Sir Thomas Urquhart's “Cyphral Distich” — a cryptogram ranked among the 50 most famous unsolved ciphers.
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Bill Gates's “Flame”: How the Microsoft Founder Spent an Hour Fighting to Install Movie Maker
A leaked internal email from 2003, surfaced in court records, shows Bill Gates in the role of an ordinary Windows user — and the ordinary user was thoroughly displeased.
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The Computer at the Bottom of a Canal: How Rekursiv Was Forty Years Ahead of Its Time
The story of a late-1980s Scottish processor that guessed almost everything about the future of computing right — except the decade in which it should have been built.