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The Incredible Machine: When Corporate Theater Met the Dawn of Unix
Discursive Podcast
27 minutes
1 week ago
The Incredible Machine: When Corporate Theater Met the Dawn of Unix
A 1968 Bell Labs promotional film showcased dramatic computer demonstrations with suited scientists and red lighting, while just down the hall, two twenty-somethings named Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie were building Unix on an unwanted PDP-7 without management support. Plus: Cloudflare scrubs a massive botnet from their domain rankings, Snapchat open-sources their cross-platform UI framework Valdi, and how a group of friends accidentally fooled the entire tech industry with fake AMD benchmarks.