Links for May 2024

2024-05-31 (updated 2024-06-01)

A reasonable configuration language (RCL) - Ruud van Asseldonk
Archie, the Internet’s first search engine, is rescued and running - Ars Technica
Big Mess o' Wires
Canon Cat - Old Vintage Computing Research
Compuseum
Computer Replicas as Time Capsules - Obsolescence.dev
Decoding UTF8 with Parallel Extract - NRK
Emoji history: the missing years ⌘I Get Info/Matt Sephton
EpubPress - Read the web offline
Evolution of the ELF object file format - MaskRay
FILE-ID.DIZ Description - PC Micro
File Signatures - Gary Kessler
How macOS opens a file in the correct app - The Eclectic Light Company
How to Copy a File From a 30-year-old Laptop - Unterminated
Iconv, set the charset to RCE: Exploiting the glibc to hack the PHP engine (part 1) - Ambionics
Link Rot and Digital Decay on Government, News and Other Webpages - Pew Research Center
Linking in the Permanent Web - Nikolas Goebel
Meta String: A 37.5% space efficient string encoding than UTF-8 - Apache Fury
Modularity: Enabling Interoperability and Competition - Mark Nottingham
Moire, a simple markup language - Sergey Vartanov
Obsolete, but not gone: The people who won't give up floppy disks - BBC
Remnants of a Legendary Typeface Have Been Rescued From the River Thames - Artnet
skx/cpmulator: Golang CP/M emulator
State of the Terminal - g.p. anders
System Source Computer Museum
The LaserDisc - Bradford Morgan White, Abort Retry Fail
When QOI meets XZ - MaskRay
You probably don't need to validate UTF-8 strings - Hacker News discussion
You probably don't need to validate UTF-8 strings - viralinstruction
bitsavers.org

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