"Traditional, but Puzzling"(unsung.aresluna.org)
42 points by colinprince | 7 comments
Blog post on the Unsung software craft blog about a puzzling Unix error message seen by users in the 1990s and its history.
#software-history on Hacker News
14 stories tagged software-history, newest first.
The history of development of Norton Commander (2011)(softpanorama.org)
60 points by Michelangelo11 | 19 comments
A Softpanorama book chapter by Nikolai Bezroukov on the history of Norton Commander and the NC line of orthodox file managers.
The Origin Story of Kid Pix(red-green-blue.com)
180 points by MBCook | 42 comments
Craig Hickman's personal history of creating Kid Pix, the children's drawing program, starting with its early years, published on the Dry Reading blog.
The Genealogy of Eliza(elizagen.org)
25 points by abrax3141 | 2 comments
ELIZAGen project page reporting on a code-phylogeny effort that builds a family tree of ELIZA implementations by comparing architectural features with phylogenetic tools.
Before Computer Science Became a Boys' Club, Margaret Hamilton Wrote the Code(nytimes.com)
6 points by ChrisArchitect | 1 comments
New York Times article about Margaret Hamilton's pioneering software work before computer science became male-dominated; the capture shows a bot-block page.
The Slow Formation of Durable Software(newsletter.dancohen.org)
278 points by benbreen | 113 comments
Dan Cohen's newsletter essay on how a group of historians spent years conceiving Zotero, the research application later used by millions.
Windows brings out the Rorschach test in everyone (2003)(devblogs.microsoft.com)
331 points by luu | 123 comments
A 2003 Old New Thing post by Raymond Chen recounting how the Windows 95 box's anti-piracy hologram of a baby drew offended reactions despite seeming harmless.
Microsoft Comic Chat is now open source(opensource.microsoft.com)
779 points by jervant | 167 comments
Microsoft Open Source blog post by Robert Standefer and Scott Hanselman announcing that Microsoft Comic Chat has been released as open source.
In memory of the man who put red and green squiggles under words(devblogs.microsoft.com)
537 points by saikatsg | 94 comments
Raymond Chen's Old New Thing post remembering Tony Krueger, longtime Microsoft Word developer credited with the red and green squiggle underlines.
Adobe Photoshop 1.0 Source Code (1990)(computerhistory.org)
416 points by tosh | 127 comments
Computer History Museum blog post releasing and discussing the source code of Adobe Photoshop 1.0 for Macintosh from 1990.
Notepad++ is 21 years old(learnhub.top)
495 points by thunderbong | 215 comments
A LearnHub blog post celebrating the 21st anniversary of the Notepad++ text editor and recounting its history.
A Git story: Not so fun this time(blog.brachiosoft.com)
470 points by thunderbong | 104 comments
Blog post recounting the origin story of Git, starting from Linux's scaling problems in 1998 and Linus Torvalds' path to creating it.
Adobe Photoshop Source Code (2013)(computerhistory.org)
596 points by PaulHoule | 212 comments
Computer History Museum blog post presenting the released source code of Adobe Photoshop 1.0 for the Macintosh, with background on its creation.
Story: Redis and its creator antirez(blog.brachiosoft.com)
505 points by nixcraft | 95 comments
A blog post by Chang-Hung Liang telling the story of Redis and its creator Salvatore Sanfilippo (antirez).