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Byte Sized Episode 2: The Creation of Graph Theory 06:04

Byte Sized Episode 2: The Creation of Graph Theory

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Byte Sized Episode 1: Grace Hopper 03:49

Byte Sized Episode 1: Grace Hopper

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7 interesting deprecated JavaScript features

7 interesting deprecated JavaScript features

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Byte Sized Episode 5: Birth of the B-tree 04:15

Byte Sized Episode 5: Birth of the B-tree

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Five Classic Reads in Software Development

Five Classic Reads in Software Development

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Byte Sized: A Taste of Coding History (Coming soon!) 00:36

Byte Sized: A Taste of Coding History (Coming soon!)

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Byte Sized Episode 3: The First Ever Sorting Algorithm 05:01

Byte Sized Episode 3: The First Ever Sorting Algorithm

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Byte Sized Episode 4: Edsger Dijkstra and His Famous Algorithm 04:07

Byte Sized Episode 4: Edsger Dijkstra and His Famous Algorithm

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20 Fantastically Bad Predictions Made About Computing and Technology

20 Fantastically Bad Predictions Made About Computing and Technology

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Why do we use Hello World? - the history behind it

Why do we use Hello World? - the history behind it

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Software Architecture: Therac-25 the killer radiation machine

Software Architecture: Therac-25 the killer radiation machine

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Code is Political

Code is Political

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Celebrating the Internet at 50 Years: A Brief History of How We Got Here

Celebrating the Internet at 50 Years: A Brief History of How We Got Here

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Almon Brown Strowger and the Invention of the Automatic Telephone Exchange

Almon Brown Strowger and the Invention of the Automatic Telephone Exchange

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Alan Turing to Feature on New £50 Note

Alan Turing to Feature on New £50 Note

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Why No Modern Programming Language Should Have a 'Character' Data Type

Why No Modern Programming Language Should Have a 'Character' Data Type

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Book Review: Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (2014)

Book Review: Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (2014)

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5 Books to Fight Technopoly

5 Books to Fight Technopoly

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Happy 107th Birthday, Betty Holberton! 🎉

Happy 107th Birthday, Betty Holberton! 🎉

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Fixing a 40-year-old Software Bug

Fixing a 40-year-old Software Bug

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Server-side JavaScript a decade before Node.js with Netscape LiveWire

Server-side JavaScript a decade before Node.js with Netscape LiveWire

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Game of Phones: History of Erlang and Elixir

Game of Phones: History of Erlang and Elixir

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Why do database columns have a character length of 191?

Why do database columns have a character length of 191?

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Plex: A Life

Plex: A Life

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The Frontend journey

The Frontend journey

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Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software by Charles Petzold

Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software by Charles Petzold

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Learning from the Past: History Time! #2

Learning from the Past: History Time! #2

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The iOS journey

The iOS journey

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Relics of the (programming) past

Relics of the (programming) past

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Actual 10x Engineers

Actual 10x Engineers

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Rails 1.0 turns 14

Rails 1.0 turns 14

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History of JavaScript

History of JavaScript

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The Technical Impact of the 11 Missing Days in 1972 and Its Relevance in the Linux Ecosystem

The Technical Impact of the 11 Missing Days in 1972 and Its Relevance in the Linux Ecosystem

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Visualize the history of a git repository

Visualize the history of a git repository

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Back to 1969 or Introduction to Ed - old-school text editor

Back to 1969 or Introduction to Ed - old-school text editor

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10 years of evolution together with Haxe

10 years of evolution together with Haxe

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Changing the rails

Changing the rails

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From JavaScript to React: The Evolution of Web Interactivity

From JavaScript to React: The Evolution of Web Interactivity

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FP(00) - บทนำ, ก้าวแรกสู่โลกแห่ง Functional Programming

FP(00) - บทนำ, ก้าวแรกสู่โลกแห่ง Functional Programming

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Angular: A shift in paradigm

Angular: A shift in paradigm

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Celebrating Godmothers, Pioneers, And Activist Women In Tech

Celebrating Godmothers, Pioneers, And Activist Women In Tech

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Sapiens: A Brief History Of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari

Sapiens: A Brief History Of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari

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So how did we begin?

So how did we begin?

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History of HTML - Hypertext markup language

History of HTML - Hypertext markup language

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The Land Before Internet: How everyday computer terms got their names

The Land Before Internet: How everyday computer terms got their names

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What Happened to UUIDv2?

What Happened to UUIDv2?

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What would you like to understand about the history of the cloud? Answer for the chance to be featured on our podcast!

What would you like to understand about the history of the cloud? Answer for the chance to be featured on our podcast!

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How to write a go back button for JavaScript applications

How to write a go back button for JavaScript applications

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1946 Called.

1946 Called.

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Beyond the Mug: Exploring the First Decade of AWS Transformation

Beyond the Mug: Exploring the First Decade of AWS Transformation

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The Beginning of Infinity by David Deutsch

The Beginning of Infinity by David Deutsch

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Learning From The Past #3 - Internet Accounts!

Learning From The Past #3 - Internet Accounts!

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The Gift: 12 Lessons to Save Your Life by Dr. Edith Eva Eger

The Gift: 12 Lessons to Save Your Life by Dr. Edith Eva Eger

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The evolution of developer experience in the 20th century

The evolution of developer experience in the 20th century

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The Little History of Redux

The Little History of Redux

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SSGs through the ages: The 'Islands' era

SSGs through the ages: The 'Islands' era

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History of APIs

History of APIs

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Reclaiming The Internet

Reclaiming The Internet

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Who brought us here?

Who brought us here?

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Como ver o histórico de comandos no terminal linux usando o comando history

Como ver o histórico de comandos no terminal linux usando o comando history

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