I failed to link to this anecdote when it was making the rounds earlier in the year, but this is a legitimately bonkers story about a fun/maddening debugging session (you know it’s a good sign when you’re breaking out strace to diagnose a yarn script). 🚋
Tag: unix
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Cloudflare: “A steam locomotive from 1993 broke my yarn test”
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Earliest Web Browsers
Ars Technica has up a history article on the early web browsers, a rare glimpse into the largely-forgotten software that beat NCSA Mosaic to the punch but didn’t quite make it into pop culture consciousness (seen above is ViolaWWW, notable for early stabs at browsing history, bookmarks, styles, and even embedded scripting — probably also the first web browser I remember using on my Slackware copy of X Windows circa 1994! </old>).
For all of the developments in web technology since 1991, it’s remarkable to see how many UI features and browsing concepts emerged almost immediately and are still with us today.
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jsvi, a JavaScript vi emulator
There’s something satisfying about hitting ZZ and returning to a webpage. This might be a good way to ensure that 100% of your blog comments come from *nix or code geeks…
(Via O’Reilly Radar)
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Bell Lab‘s Blit Windowing System
(video no longer available)
Blit, an early Unix-based multitasking windowing system demo from Bell Labs, a precursor to the X Window System. X11 didn’t look much different ten years later, and true multitasking and multi-user systems have only recently filtered into the Mac and Microsoft Windows worlds. Not bad for 1982.
(Via 5cience)
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Logstalgia AKA Apachepong
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYYX-h4-dpM
Logstalgia (aka ApachePong), a visualizer that turns Apache log file entries into an automated game of OpenGL Pong, with the server-paddle hitting requests back at the calling visitors. Pipe it through SSH and tail to get real-time infoviz. Hey, I’ve seen worse screensavers…
(Via O’Reilly Radar)