TwoBitHistory: Jobs, Salaries & Tech Stack (2026)

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News TwoBitHistory 3 years ago

The Source History of Cat

A tour of the many historical implementations of the Unix cat utility.

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News TwoBitHistory 3 years ago

Version Control Before Git with CVS

What it was like using version control before distributed repositories and commit graphs.

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The Ruby Story Read more

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Learning BASIC Like It

Imagining a childhood encounter with BASIC on the Commodore 64.

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News TwoBitHistory 4 years ago

Where Vim Came From

Tracing the long lineage of software that brought us Vim.

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News TwoBitHistory 4 years ago

Important Papers: Codd and the Relational Model Read more

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How Lisp Became God

A look at the fascinating history behind the one programming language with magical powers.

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News TwoBitHistory 4 years ago

A Short History of Chaosnet

Chaosnet is a long-extinct network protocol. But traces of it survive in the plumbing of the internet.

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Blog 5 years ago

How the ARPANET Protocols Worked

An ascent through the four levels of the ARPANET protocol hierarchy.

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News twobithistory.org 5 years ago

What Did Ada Lovelace's Program Do? (2018)

In 1843, Ada Lovelace published the first nontrivial program. How did it work?

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