stuff i find interesting

this is just a random collection of stuff i've found interesting over the years

• a scan of the first computer program ever executed, dated June 19th, 1948 (see here for more info)
• a scan of a 1969 version of Logo, one of the first educational programming languages, that also inspired Scratch and Smalltalk (see here for more info)
• a scan of a 1969 listing of the NLS, a revolutionary operating system that introduced the mouse and much more (see here for more info)
• a version of Scratch from December 2003 (see here for more info)
• a picture of the first desktop Turing-complete stored-program computer (just that this one happens to have a calculator-like instruction set) from 1965 (see here for more info)
• a video demo of the first graphical programming language by W. Sutherland, c. 1966 (see here for more info)
• a very early build of Windows 95 from 1992 (see here for more info)
• the source code of IRIX version 3.7, c. 1989 (see here for more info)
• the source code of the first 3D platformer, Alpha Waves, released in 1990 (see here for more info)
• the earliest (known) version of AlphaWorld from October 1995, an early interactive 3D virtual world (see here for more info)
• the earliest version of the Unreal editor from November 1995, over 2 years older than the official release of Unreal (see here for more info)
• the first release of the ChromeOS (then called ChromiumOS) source code from November 2009 (see here for more info)
• this picture of a first-generation Q1 from December 1972, the first microprocessor-based computer (see here for more info)
• this picture of an IBM 3277 model 1 terminal from 1971 looks pretty cool
• the source code to the second of three Cybernetic Landscapes, an early piece of computer art created by Aaron Marcus that featured a virtual, walkable 3D world, c. 1971-1973
• this is a Grillo, a rotary flip phone from 1967 (see here for more info)