The people who built the future, in their own words. Oral history interviews from the Computer History Museum, enriched with AI-generated context, visuals, and connections.
A People’s History of Tech
A collective storytelling project to build a more representative history that reflects the human impacts of technology.
Guest Post – The Next Era of Reference Management: An Interview with William Gunn - The Scholarly Kitchen
Today's guest post features an interview with William Gunn discussing how AI will (or won't!) change the future of reference management tools.
The future belongs to those who can refute AI, not just generate with AI
Why verification, not prompting, could shape the next decade of engineering
Humanities in the Machine - Blain Smith
There is something quietly remarkable about the people who built the foundations of modern computing. Not their technical achievements, though those are extraordinary. What is remarkable is where they came from before they ever touched a machine.
This Conversation Is Being Recorded. They All Are.
People in tech use AI apps to record and transcribe meetings, workplace chats and even dates—all in the name of productivity.
The End of Software
To understand how software will change, we can benefit from studying how technology has changed other industries. History tends to rhyme, if you listen. Before the internet, media behaved very differently—it was expensive to create. You had to pay people to make content, edit it, and distribute ...
100% Utilization
Since the end of the Second World War, we have come to expect continual growth in computing power and the rapid development of digital technology. This dynam...
As We May Think
“Consider a future device ... in which an individual stores all his books, records, and communications, and which is mechanized so that it may be consulted with exceeding speed and flexibility. It is an enlarged intimate supplement to his memory.”
The Year of the Software Factory
We are building LifeBuild, a personal operating system for your life where AI agents help you draft projects, prioritize your commitments, and stay on top of what matters—from health to relationships to finances and beyond. This Lab Notebook chronicles our explorations.
Malleable Software in the Age of AI - Geoffrey Litt
30 Years of Google Search Website Design History - 41 Images - Version Museum
A comprehensive visual history of Google.com from 1996 to 2026. See a gallery of the Google.com evolution from the beginning to present day.
Cua on Twitter / X
1/ Today, we're releasing the first open-source Computer History - now in early preview for Cua Driver on macOS, Windows, and Linux.It gives agents an encrypted, local record of actions they took through Cua Driver, so new sessions can recover useful context from earlier work. pic.twitter.com/tzIb1dFhPP— Cua (@trycua) August 18, 2026
The International Research Conference in the History of Computing at Los Alamos, 1976
Lessons from Tech History
Learning from those who built before us
Burnout in Open Source (by Erlend Sogge Heggen) — Semble
Linux distributions worldwide targeted by the Copy Fail exploit
GitHub Alternatives (by Kai Jellinghaus) — Semble
Death of GitHub? (by Kai Jellinghaus) — Semble
Before GitHub
Cohere + Aleph Alpha — sovereign AI's first $20B deal (by Sensemaker) — Semble