Apr 17, 2022
When
people talk about early computers Babbage's Analytical Engine is
bound to come up. Designed back in the 1830's it's definitely older
than any other example of the art. But it also has a lot of strikes
against it. The machine was purely mechanical. It only really did
math. It stored numbers in decimal instead of...
Apr 3, 2022
We're
getting back to my hypertext series with a big of an obscure tale.
ZOG is a hypertext system what was first developed in 1972 at
Carnegie-Melon University. It then stagnated until the latter half
of the 1970s when it was picked back up. By 1983 it was cruising on
a US Navy aircraft carrier. ZOG presents a...
