Since 2003, we’ve been traveling through time to rediscover and share the legacy of MTV’s 120 Minutes, the classic U.S. TV series that exposed a vast collection of alternative music videos, artist interviews, and live performances to a diverse range of music enthusiasts across several generations.
This project captures and revisits the memories of 27 years of Music Television—this is the soundtrack of our lives.
With hundreds of volunteer contributors like you, we assembled this incredible archive from scratch, rebuilding nearly the entire history of 120 Minutes. Inside, you’ll find the playlists and music videos for 1,005 episodes, spanning across the various iterations of 120 Minutes on both MTV and MTV2 from 1986 to 2013, as well as Subterranean, its successor from 2003 to 2011.
An archive of articles about, executables, and PowerBASIC source code for Operation Vula, used for secure communication using one-time pads smuggled into South Africa by a flight attendant on floppy disks in the late 1980's.
An archive of the Vula cryptographic system that was used for encrypting and decrypting clandestine messages during the fall of apartheid. It implements a one-time pad and executes encryption and decryption of messages with same.
Written in PowerBASIC.
Phineas Gage became the center of a landmark neuroscience case when an explosion forced a red-hot tamping iron through this railroad foreman’s brain and skull. He survived, but reportedly suffered a personality change. This was the first evidence suggesting that the frontal lobe of the brain was linked to one’s personality. A more complete story is hosted at the website of the Warren Anatomical Museum at Harvard Medical School, which happens to be the current home of the original skull.
This work is a derivative of the CT scan made of the Phineas Gage Skull as discussed in The Tale of Phineas Gage, digitally remastered (Ratiu, P et. al., 2004), and is being shared with the kind permission of the Warren Anatomical Museum at Harvard Medical School’s Countway Library.
This model is also being shared at Thingiverse: http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:1417528
This site contains a map of Bell/AT&T Long Lines sites throughout the US, Canada and Mexico. It is my hope to have viewers of the site contribute Sites, Site Document, Site Images, and Site Notes. This site does not contain any advertisements and all information is free for the general public and is hosted at my expense. No profit will ever made from the information on this website.
The Fuzzball is an operating system and a package of applications for the Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) PDP11 family of computers, including the LSI-11 board-level components. The package was conceived in 1971 as a replacement for the RAMP operating system for the DEC PDP8. It later was evolved as a virtual machine supporting the DEC RT-11 operating system and early developmental versions of the TCP/IP protocol and applications suite. Prototype versions of popular Internet tools, including Telnet, FTP, DNS, EGP and SMTP were first implemented and tested on the Fuzzball. Fuzzball is now in the Computing Dictionary and remembered in the NSF history archives.
Fuzzballs were deployed extensively in the DARPA SATNET program during the 1970s. Fuzzball nests were deployed at the INTELSAT earth stations in the US, UK, Germany, Norway and Italy. Perhaps the best known role of the Fuzzball was as routers for the NSFNET Phase-I Backbone Network, which was deployed during the 1986-1988 time period. There were five routers co-located at the five NSF supercomputer centers and connected by 56-kbps data circuits. The Fuzzballs carried traffic between the centers, the center users and the adjacent college campuses.
The Hacktic Demon Dialer is a compact inband signalling device, aka a blue box. With many additional features. The DemonDialer was designed by Hacktic in 1991, see hacktic 14-15. The original design notes and schematics have been located, scanned, and cleaned up. The documentation has been assembled into PDFs for printing and binding.
Serving freely distributable files with FTP since 1990.
Linux was first released to the world from here 17.9.1991
Formerly The Bell System Practices (BSP) Archive.
An indexed collection of 36832 telecom and related documents totaling more than 2 million pages.
This is a reconstruction of the original 1981-82 IBM PC BIOS source code using scanning and transcription of the BIOS listings found in the IBM Technical Reference manuals.
All 3 versions of the IBM PC BIOS were built using Intel ASM86 on an Intel development system. In each case the BIOS source code is a single large file and the BIOS code is 8KB which resides at F000:E000
Do you remember Saturday nights in Pittsburgh? Do you remember "Chilly Billy" Bill Cardille and Channel 11's Saturday Late Show Chiller Theater? Chiller Theater was Pittsburgh's favorite place to see Horror, Fantasy, and Science-Fiction movies on television.
Xenia, the fox girl mascot of Linux, was first designed in 1996 by Alan Mackey. She was meant to be an alternative to Tux, the official mascot. Something that would resurface in an article years later.
Suspended is a 1983 interactive fiction game written by Mike Berlyn and published by Infocom.
This repository is a directory of source code for the Infocom game "Suspended", including a variety of files both used and discarded in the production of the game. It is written in ZIL (Zork Implementation Language), a refactoring of MDL (Muddle), itself a dialect of LISP created by MIT students and staff.
The source code was contributed anonymously and represents a snapshot of the Infocom development system at time of shutdown - there is no remaining way to compare it against any official version as of this writing, and so it should be considered canonical, but not necessarily the exact source code arrangement for production.
Greetings! This site contains scans and descriptions of my collection of slide rules, along with several pages of (hopefully) useful background information. I haven't been actively collecting new rules for several years now, but I have kept the site up as a resource for others.
The world’s largest aggregator of electronic books and articles, a non-profit offering over 3 million ebooks and audiobooks to read online or download. The World Library Foundation is a global coordinated effort to preserve and disseminate digital copies of historical books, classic works of literature, serials, bibliographies, dictionaries and encyclopedias in a number of languages and countries around the world. $8.95/yr.
Telehack is a simulation of a stylized arpanet/usenet, circa 1985-1990. It is a full multi-user simulation, including 26,600+ simulated hosts from the early net, thousands of files from the era, a collection of adventure and IF games, a working BASIC interpreter with a library of programs to run, simulated historical users, and more. Telehack is an interactive virtual museum that allows one to see what the Internet was like in the 1990s, when young hackers were browsing through different bulletin board systems and shell accounts. One can learn exactly how they hacked in a safe and simulated environment as well as view real documents saved from BBSes thanks to textfiles.com.
Text source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telehack
textfiles.com now offers the contents of entire BBS file and shareware CD-ROMs for download. Some of these are quite famous.
International Center for Unidentified and Missing Persons. Accepts tips. Has a search engine which could be useful. Showing signs of being updated regularly.