SinclairSpeccy

SinclairSpeccy, 6 months ago to random

Need me some Japanese computers

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SinclairSpeccy, 8 months ago to random

29 years ago on October 1st, 1994, Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web, established the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).

The W3C played a role in the evolution of the web by creating and overseeing standards like HTML and CSS. These standards are the foundation of web development, enabling websites to be accessible across different browsers and devices

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SinclairSpeccy, 10 months ago to random

On August 25, 1991, Linus Torvalds, introduced the world to Linux through an online post. Linus Torvalds developed the kernel, initially shared as source code, and later as bootable floppy disk images, becoming much popular years later!

Early distributions included Torvalds's "Boot-Root" images, MCC Interim Linux, Softlanding Linux System (SLS), H.J. Lu's "bootable rootdisks," and Yggdrasil Linux/GNU/X, a commercial distribution.

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SLS Linux 1.05, 1994. What a nice blue GUI. “Gentle Touchdowns for DOS Bailouts” was SLS's slogan they say
Ahh, Yggdrasil. My all-time favourite Linux distro from the 90s. It could automatically configure itself on system hardware as “Plug-and-Play”, which is a very regular and known feature in today’s time. The later versions of Yggdrasil included a hack for running any proprietary MS-DOS CD-ROM driver within Linux.
MCC Interim Linux was the first Linux distribution for novice users with a menu-driven installer and end-user/programming tools. It did not require using a hex editor to edit the MBR.