Welcome to Advent of Computing, the show that talks about the shocking, intriguing, and all too often relevant history of computing. A lot of little things we take for granted today have rich stories behind their creation, in each episode we will learn how older tech has lead to our modern world.
167 episodes transcribedWhat are the origins of our modern day text-to-speech systems? In this episode we will dive into the rich history of electronic talking machines. Alon...
Now, as the name suggests this is the second part of a series on the history of UNIX. Part 1 mainly covers the background leading up to UNIX. If you h...
In this mini-episode we talk about Space Travel, an obscure video game from 1969.
Many people have never even heard of Unix, an operating system first released in the early 1970s. But that doesn't change the fact that all of the int...
The original Apple Macintosh, later rebranded the Macintosh 128k, is inarguably one of the most recognizable vintage computers. Even it's design has b...
A lot of newer technology doesn't expressly say it's going to "revolutionize the human experience", but sometimes, that line may actually be closer to...
Today, I want to share with you a technology that shambles among us as a corpse that refuses to die. That is, of course, the punch card. In this episo...
