@athiazohra
Wild to think: in the 1940s we literally rewired programs by hand. Today, we ship apps worldwide with a single command.
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From mainframes to microchips
The GUI moment
| /api/gui/wimp | 520 ms | +35↑ | 15.00% | 4K req/s |
| /api/arpanet/routing | 230 ms | +25↑ | 5.00% | 8K req/s |
| /api/unix/pipe | 180 ms | -8↓ | 8.00% | 7K req/s |
| /api/eniac/program | 145 ms | -15↓ | 12.00% | 13K req/s |
Table data shown as expandable cards. Each card represents one row. Columns: Endpoint, P95 Latency, Δ Latency, Error Rate, Throughput.
Sorted by P95 Latency, descending
wikipedia.org
A brief history of computing hardware
Mechanical calculators, vacuum tubes, transistors, microprocessors — and what came next.
Bell Labs hallway recording
Ambient sounds where UNIX, C, and more took shape.
·alexrivera·
2w
Swipe through: a 1970s terminal, a 1980s home computer, and a 1990s laptop. In a few decades, ‘computer rooms’ fit into backpacks.
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VP of Engineering | Systems & Cloud
2w
From batch jobs on mainframes to autoscaling services in the cloud — the fundamentals remain: clear interfaces, small composable tools, and great teams. Sharing notes from our modernization journey.
acm.org
Small, Sharp Tools: Then and Now
Why the UNIX way still matters in distributed systems.