https://byte.tsundoku.io/
"Before
Hackernews, before Twitter, before blogs, before the web had been
spun, when the internet was just four universities in a trenchcoat, there was
BYTE. A monthly mainline of the entire personal computing universe, delivered
on dead trees for a generation of hackers. Running from September 1975 to July
1998, its 277 issues chronicled the Cambrian explosion of the microcomputer,
from bare-metal kits to the dawn of the commercial internet. Forget repackaged
corporate press releases—
BYTE was for the builders. Inside, you'd find Steve
Ciarcia teaching you to build a speech synthesizer from scratch, the inner
details of a RISC pipeline, deep dives into the guts of Smalltalk, and Jerry
Pournelle’s legendary columns from Chaos Manor. This wasn't just about what a
computer could do, but
how it did it. The source code of a revolution that
continues to this day.
This zoomable map shows every page of every issue of
BYTE starting from the
front cover of the first issue (top left) to the last page of the final edition
(bottom right). The search bar runs RE2 regex over the full text of all 100k
pages. The archive itself is not new, scans of
BYTE have long existed on the
Internet Archive and elsewhere on the net – but I hope seeing everything in
single, searchable place offers a unique perspective."
Via Esther Schindler.
Share and enjoy,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
