Monki Gras later-post - Digital Archaeology showcasing the newest comic in his Unsung Heroes series about little-known pioneers and trailblazers in tech. The third in the series features Lynn Conway.

Ian Miell Monki Gras julia ferraioli Interesting observations about bias in #midjourney from the creation of the Unsung Hero comic on Lynn Conway, by Jim Boulton at Monki Gras

Apparently quite hard to prompt MidJourney to depict a man and a woman in a non-romantic way (!!)

A lovely vibe Monki Gras today, honoured to be asked to speak about my Unsung Heroes of the Information Age comics #MonkiGras

Excited to pick up 2x Unsung Heroes comics Monki Gras, celebrating the history of the IT industry. unsungheroes.info

Morris Chang revolutionized the chips industry at 56 when he founded TSMC. His unlikely journey has charted a new reality where a linchpin of global economic growth lies in one of the world’s most volatile hotspots. W/Paul Mozur 孟建國
Read our profile:
nytimes.com/2023/08/04/tec…

How the rivalry between Gawker and BuzzFeed drove a social media boom – and bust theguardian.com/media/2023/may…

🙌 spectrum.ieee.org/xerox-alto

Years ago with a friend who was writing a text about #AI + #Art , we were discussing #glitchart + AI as I said 'I don't make the glitch, the machine does it', then daring to say 'Could a glitch be considered as a very primitive form of computer autonomous/unexpected behaviour?'.

The first emoji-set is widely attributed to Docomo in 1997. However, SoftBank released a set in 1997. Amongst them was the #poomoji #DigitalScatology blog.emojipedia.org/correcting-the…

20 years of evolution of web design trends.

Craigslist website in 2000
vs.
Craigslist website in 2023

#WebDesignHistory

Everything dies, including information …chnologyreview-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.techno…

From Worms to Monument Valley, British classics are explored at The Art of Play at The National Video Game Miseum thenvm.org/exhibitions/th…

Adele Goldberg and Alan Kay's #Smalltalk instruction manual from 1976. bitsavers.trailing-edge.com/pdf/xerox/parc…

Surely not! ‘Gifs are cringe’: how Giphy’s multimillion-dollar business fell out of fashion theguardian.com/technology/202…

Join us on Thursday 15th September for Digital Archaeology's TechTalk on Unsung Heroes of the Information Age. Jim will share what he has learned from his interactions with numerous architects of our modern world... computinghistory.org.uk/det/68865/Tech…

Let’s try this again: The engineers working on the Ethereum roadmap appear to not care about on-chain data interaction for art. On chain data will no longer be validated using Ethereum after the purge phase if older than a year unless there is a revolt.

Learn to code like it's 1981 in our Back to BASIC workshop this Thursday! We'll be using BBC BASIC on original BBC Microcomputers, THE educational computers of choice and used in schools across the country throughout the 80s...
Tickets: computinghistory.org.uk/det/68984/Back…

Buy yourself a
Friesland Porzellan
#UtahTeapot , you know you want to. amazon.co.uk/Porcelain-Tea-…