¿El fin del desorden en la oficina? Lanzamiento de SideKick para Mac (1986) 💾✨ Antes de las apps móviles y las ventanas infinitas, Borland SideKick llegó al Macintosh para cumplir una promesa: "Clear your desk, connect you to productivity". Por $99.95 USD, este icónico software integraba en un solo lugar lo que antes llenaba tu espacio físico: agenda, calendario, calculadora y gestor de archivos. ¡Una auténtica revolución de la organización personal en los 80! 📅🧮 Dejar el escritorio limpio ya no dependía de archivar papeles, sino de encender tu computadora. 🖥️ ¿Llegaste a usar este clásico o alguna otra herramienta de Borland? ¿Cuál fue el primer software que te voló la cabeza? #retrocomputing #applemacintosh #borlandsidekick #VintageTech #NostalgiaDigital #SoftwareHistory #80sTech #retrocomputingmx

The floppy disk changed computing forever. And it started with just 80KB. IBM introduced the first floppy disk in 1971. An 8-inch magnetic disk that could hold 80 kilobytes of data. To put that in context, a single emoji today is larger than what that disk could store. Yet it was the most significant storage breakthrough of its era. Before it, software and data moved on punched cards and magnetic tape. Both were slow, fragile, and completely impractical for everyday computing. The floppy changed the equation. You could carry data in your hand. You could share programs between machines. That was not a small thing. That was the beginning of software as we know it. The 8-inch gave way to the 5.25-inch in 1976. More portable, 360KB of storage. Then came the 3.5-inch in 1982, eventually reaching 1.44MB. That hard plastic shell with the sliding metal cover became the universal symbol of computing for a generation of engineers and architects. What I remember is the sound. The mechanical whirring when a machine read the disk. The nervous pause before the data appeared. You knew something real was happening inside that drive. The floppy also gave us the save icon. Every piece of software still uses it. Generations of engineers click that icon daily without ever having held a physical disk. That is how deeply this technology embedded itself into computing culture. 80KB was the beginning. The cloud stores exabytes today. But the architectural idea was the same: make data portable, shareable, and independent of the machine it was created on. That idea did not change. Only the scale did. #FloppyDisk #ComputingHistory #TechNostalgia #EnterpriseArchitecture #SoftwareHistory #IBM #StorageEvolution #TechLeadership #DigitalTransformation

just watched the Node.js documentary. It’s a wild ride from Ryan Dahl’s first line of code in 2009 to becoming the backbone of the modern web. Isaac Schlueter and npm. They turned software into "Lego bricks" — making code shareable, versioned, and reproducible. We wouldn't have the AI velocity we have today without that foundation. Highly recommend for every dev: youtube.com/watch?v=LB8KwiiU… 🚀 #Nodejs #OpenSource #SoftwareHistory

The "Singularity" just happened @bcherny (Creator of Claude Code) just confirmed the ultimate recursive loop: "How much of Claude Code was written by Claude Code?" "All of it." Let that sink in. The tool you are using to build AI agents... was built by those very agents. Why this changes everything for Developers: 1. The "Bootstrap" Moment We are witnessing software "Self-Replication." Just as the first C compiler had to be written in Assembly, and then C compiled itself... Claude Code has now "compiled" itself. The feedback loop is closed. The velocity of improvement is no longer bound by human typing speed. 2. The New Workflow (Boris's Actual Stack) He didn't just "chat." He orchestrated: 5 Parallel Agent Sessions: Numbered tabs running different tasks simultaneously. Plan First, Code Later: Heavily uses "Plan Mode" to architect before letting the agent touch the file system. The CLAUDE.md Brain: A shared, git-committed file that teaches the agent the team's coding style. If it makes a mistake, they don't just fix the code; they update the instruction file. The Reality Check: He didn't say he "did nothing." He said he didn't write the code. If the creator of the tool isn't writing code anymore, why are you? #ClaudeCode #Anthropic #SelfHosting #VibeCoding #SoftwareHistory)

#FunFactFriday The internet you’re using today isn’t version 1.0. It’s the result of thousands of iterations, from protocols to browsers to user habits. Every click, every code change, a step forward. #Codetrative #IterateToInnovate #FunFactFriday #SoftwareHistory

🚀 NEW on We ❤️ Open Source 🚀 How Paris Karahalios went from nuclear engineer to spreadsheet software founder—building As-Easy-As from the ground up. Start the series here: allthingsopen.org/articles/a… #WeLoveOpenSource #OpenSource #DOS #RetroComputing #SoftwareHistory

Did you know the first computer bug was actually a moth stuck in a machine? #FunFactFriday #SoftwareHistory

ICYMI MIT @HASTS_MIT ABD Alex Reiss Sorokin gave an excellent Tomash Fellows Lecture on April 30th, "From Research to Search: Legal Research Technologies, 1964-1994." #InformationScience #history #softwarehistory #legalreearch @sigcis @StudentsOfHASTS youtube.com/watch?v=TymdfoQY…

The first computer program is credited to Ada Lovelace, an English mathematician,writer. She created an algorithm for Charles Babbage's Analytical Engine in the mid-1800s, making her the world's first programmer! 🧠💻 #SoftwareHistory #AdaLovelace #ProgrammingPioneer #TechTrivia

It wasn't malicious, but it paved the way for viruses like 😍💔"ILOVEYOU" to cause millions in damages later on. #softwarefunfacts #computervirus #historyofsoftware 🤯#SoftwareHistory #ComputerViruses #Oops

Did you know the first computer virus was created in 1971 by programmer Bob Thomas? Dubbed 'Creeper', it infected DEC PDP-10 computers and moved to others via ARPANET. The world's first antivirus program, 'Reaper', was later developed to combat it. #SoftwareHistory #FunFact

Cover out of our (Martin, Bill, Honghong, Con, and my) new book/edition, new section, 3 new chapters--on cloud/social, global, pol. econ. & inequality 20% off, out in June '23 Computer 4E @SIGCIS @SocHistTech @4sWeb @labortechgroup #ai #softwarehistory z.umn.edu/Computer4thEd

A new essay/review published in Interfaces, "From a Teapot to Toy Story..." on symposia in Utah in March '23. @SIGCIS @SocHistTech @4sWeb @siggraph @sigchi #graphics #vr #ai #pixar #atari #softwarehistory z.umn.edu/TeapottoToyStory

Accepting applications for the 2023-2024 CBI Tomash Fellowship--Elig-ABDs (any field) whose diss. is principally history of computing/software. Deadline Jan. 16th 2023 #dissertationfellowships #fellowships #computerhistory #softwarehistory #softwarestudies cse.umn.edu/cbi/adelle-and-e…

CBI Image o' Day. An iconic picture of smiling boy posing for the camera as he uses Control Data PLATO educational hardware/software system (originating at U of Ill) circa the early 1970s #plato #controldata #timesharing #educationalcomuting #softwarehistory #software @iSchoolUI

#100DaysOfCode I had lived through #UML #softwarehistory I'd say one of the cause of its decrease was #IBM Rational Rose Monopoly for example as Consultant I was paid for "INDEPENDANT" report by Big Corp to recommend it whereas it sucked and Peter Coad Togethersoft was better🤣

#TransformacionDigital #CompuServe #computerhistory #softwarehistory

The first keynote speaker is Roberto Di Cosmo @rdicosmo (dicosmo.org/): "Should we preserve the world’s #softwareHistory, and can we?" tpdl2022.dei.unipd.it/#keyno… #preservation #dicosmo #TPDL2022 #digitalLibraries #keynote

#AI in 1987 ;) #Prolog #SoftwareHistory

It is pretty fascinating to have actually lived through all the transformation of software industry :) #softwarehistory