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“A diagram of the relationships between Unix systems” by Eraserhead1, Infinity0, Sav_vas (Wikipedia)

Pipe Dreams: The life and times of Yahoo Pipes Yahoo Pipes—or, officially, Pipes by Yahoo!, a rare switcheroo of the company’s name—was a service that offered all that and more in a single platform. Individual “Pipes,” as it were, were both personal and public—the service seemed like a portent of the future that techno-utopians were then predicting. But like many great products and services of its time, it never quite came to pass....

(via Copa do Mundo e sua relação com Design. | Leandro Soler )

mrsdentonorahippo: blueromance : markmejia : High School Fashion, 1969 emmagrant01 : The existence of photos like these (and similar photos from the 70s and 80s and so on) makes me wonder yet again why current-day movies set in this time never seem to be able to get the hair and clothing right. I was in the 7th grade. This is pretty much how it was.

The old man turned back at his coffee, took a sip, and then looked back at me. “In fact, I’ve done lots of things that haven’t been done before”, he said half-smiling. Not sure if he was simply toying with me or not, my curiousity got the better of me. Oh really? Like what types of things? , All the while, half-thinking he was going to make up something fairly non-impressive....

Grace Hopper – Nanoseconds (via YouTube ) 1 ns = 11,8″ That is: 29,972 cm ~ A4 paper height

The Elements of Style (via jslint_com – Yahoo Groups ) According to Wikipedia: The Elements of Style (1918), by William Strunk, Jr. and E. B. White, is a prescriptive American English writing style guide comprising eight “elementary rules of usage”, ten “elementary principles of composition”, “a few matters of form”, a list of forty-nine “words and expressions commonly misused”, and a list of fifty-seven “words often misspelled”.

When I left Sun to go to NeXT, I thought Objective-C was the coolest thing since sliced bread, and I hated C++. So, naturally when I stayed to start the (eventually) Java project, Obj-C had a big influence. James Gosling, being much older than I was, he had lots of experience with SmallTalk and Simula68, which we also borrowed from liberally. Patrick Naughton (in Java Was Strongly Influenced by Objective-C )...

High Scalability – Expandability: Steve Wozniak’s Biggest Success and Nolan Bushnell’s Biggest Regret Lesson: Think Geek The lesson: when your grownup self compels you to be lean and create something minimally viable – think geek. It may not make your accountants happy, but your “just because it seems like a great thing” idea might be exactly what you need to become more successful than you can possibly imagine.

(via Should A Logo Be Timeless? – The Logo Company )