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A 70-year arc that stalled twice, then accelerated past most of its critics. Below: dates, names, and the equations that built modern AI.
A century of laboratory technique reduced biology to a programmable substrate. Fourteen pages on what we built, what we mean by it, and what it might do next.
We survey eighteen years of cryptographically secured distributed ledgers, beginning with the publication of Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System by Satoshi Nakamoto in October 2008. We trace the evolution from proof-of-work value transfer (Bitcoin) to general-purpose smart-contract platforms (Ethereum), the rise and fall of decentralized finance and non-fungible tokens, and persistent technical and...
A compiler is a program that translates a program. The input is source code in one language; the output is an executable program — usually in machine code, sometimes in another high-level language, sometimes in bytecode for a virtual machine.
A computer network is a set of machines that exchange messages by following a shared protocol. The internet is the network of networks: an interconnection of autonomously operated networks, glued together by a small set of universal protocols.
A central processing unit fetches an instruction from memory, decodes it, executes it, and writes the result. Then it does the same with the next instruction. It does this several billion times a second, on a die smaller than a fingernail, dissipating less power than a light bulb.
A field that began with one student running a worm at MIT in 1988, and turned into the connective tissue of every other industry. Sixteen pages of attackers, defenders, and the tooling between them.
A system for organising structured data so that it can be stored durably, queried flexibly, and modified safely by many programs at once.
UNDER CONSTRUCTION visitor # 000123456
Forty years of pocketable computers. From the Apple Newton's misread ink to a foldable device with a six-billion-parameter on-device model. Sixteen pages.
whoami
From Punch Cards to AI Assistants: 70 Years of Human-Machine Communication
A quick tour of the qubit and the machines we built around it — from Feynman's 1982 lecture to the noisy intermediate-scale era.
N.T.S.
From Sand to Silicon: The Invisible Engine of Modernity
Seven decades of getting hardware out of the gravity well — and increasingly bringing it back.
Technology / Web Development
From the first artificial neuron sketched in 1943 to large language models trained on most of the public internet — eight decades of one idea, scaled.
From cutting and pasting genes in 1973 to writing mRNA scripts that run inside your cells. A working tour of the platforms that turned living systems into engineerable substrate.
Charles Babbage designed a mechanical, general-purpose computer with a "mill" (CPU), "store" (memory), and punched-card input — over a century before the electronic computer.
Julius Caesar protected military dispatches with a substitution so simple a soldier could memorize it: shift every letter of the plaintext forward by three positions in the alphabet.
┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ │ │ │ │ │ └──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ THE INTERNET ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ A FIFTY-YEAR HISTORY BOOTING ARCHIVE
Caltech, December 29, 1959 . Richard Feynman delivers the founding lecture of nanotechnology before the field exists.
Every doubling of cumulative solar capacity has knocked roughly 20-25% off price. The curve has held for four decades.
FROM INDUSTRIAL ARMS → HUMANOIDS
AD ASTRA 2026 / 13 FILED 02 MAY 2026 NORTH AMERICAN BUREAU CLEARANCE — PUBLIC SPACE / from V-2 to reusable boosters A 13-sheet technical brief on the engineering of leaving Earth NASA-WORM REFERENCE BRIEF PRESS → OR SPACE TO ADVANCE MISSION 01 — V-2 / PEENEMÜNDE EVENT 1942 1942 First vehicle to touch space On 3 October 1942 , an A-4 rocket — soon known to the world as the V-2 — lifted from Test Stand VII at...
From Sutherland's Sword of Damocles to Apple Vision Pro — six decades of strapping screens to faces, and learning what the eyes will tolerate.