An essay on people's view of masturbation and asceticism through history. It was a fun read filled with absurd though useless knowledge on the futile efforts people made for this purpose.

(e.g. the “Electric Alarum” (1887) was a surveillance tool that set off an alarm for parents if their sleeping boy’s penis changed size during the night.)

The internet's finest exhibition can only exist online. It offers a profound, hour-long journey into nostalgia.

This article talks about the evolution of HTTP versions. From the earliest HTTP/0.9 where there is just a single bare GET method and supports no headers, to HTTP/3 which is completely optimized for speed and security. By the way, HTTP/0.9 resembles FTP a lot, which is interesting.

Interesting though useless knowledge on the evolution of the term "boilerplate" in programming context.

TL;DR: first it refers to the plate used to roll into water boiler cylinder in the steam age. Then in linotype age there is a technique to make mold lead into the lines of text for printing. These plates of lines of texts looks similar to boilerplates. And the connotation of "copy-pasted" text comes from the usage of these plates been casted several times and sent to various new publishers for printing.

because Microsoft was threatening to sue all the Linux vendors shipping Windows 95-like desktops.

In the end MS did not sue anyone... but it got what it wanted: total chaos in the Linux desktop world.

I never knew about this part of history. This probably contributed to the amount of hate M$ get from the community.

The interpretation in this article may not be true. See more discussion in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32257412.

Interesting summary of the evolution of Unix command line argument conventions.

Screenshots for famous software in history.

<blockquote>A real-time interactive journey through the Apollo missions. Relive every moment as it occurred.</blockquote>