Welcome to the archives, data traveler. Explore 82 entries across 8 collections - from BBS nostalgia to modern protocols, retro computing to AI collaborations.
The ultimate AI collaboration guide - 93 guides, 4 learning paths, and everything you need to master human-AI partnerships.
Explore 8 distinct worlds of content across the digital frontier
Personal thoughts, technical discoveries, and random musings from the digital frontier.
How I spent an afternoon debugging whether poop emoji eye whites should be brown or white, built a professional AI assistant that lives in a toilet, and created the most technically advanced shit-themed chatbot on the internet
A deep dive into how our brains are self-modifying algorithms that rewrite themselves with every experience, and why understanding this changes everything about habits, anxiety, and human behavior
A father-son conversation leads to exploring cognitive dissonance, from gym memberships to parenting mistakes, and why admitting 'I don't know' might be the healthiest response of all
Dial-up nostalgia, bulletin board systems, and the golden age of modems.
Classic console games from the golden era of BBS culture. Fire up the emulators and relive the 8-bit and 16-bit glory days.
How Wayne Bell started with interpreted BASIC and a 10MB hard drive, hit the 64KB memory wall, and somehow created one of the most influential BBS software packages ever
An article comparing Delphi to other similar online services of its time, such as CompuServe, AOL, and Prodigy, highlighting their features, strengths, and weaknesses.
Early internet culture, networking adventures, and digital archaeology.
Welcome to the most comprehensive animated GIF collection on the Information Superhighway! Over 300+ authentic retro GIFs from the GeoCities golden age - cats, cartoons, browsers, bouncing balls, and SO MUCH MORE!
Journey back to the golden age of PC gaming with classic DOS titles that defined the early computer gaming experience. From Sierra adventures to id Software shooters.
How Microsoft's 1992 masterpiece proved that sometimes ugly can be revolutionary, and why Program Manager was actually genius design
Where technology meets creativity - ANSI art, digital expression, and creative coding.
Showcasing the finest ANSI art pieces from the underground computer art scene, featuring 256-color masterpieces and retro terminal graphics.
From TheDraw experiments as a 10-year-old to the legendary artpack wars between ACiD and iCE - how text characters became the street art of BBS culture
How a 40-year-old magazine article predicted the future of human-AI musical collaboration—and why music students today are living in Moog's wildest dreams
People who shaped technology and inspired my journey through cyberspace.
How a 1969 photo of an MIT engineer standing next to stacks of Apollo code fundamentally changed how I think about error handling, testing, and what it means to build systems that actually matter
Master of speculative fiction who predicted AI consciousness dilemmas, explored the dark side of technology, and never pulled his punches
How I accidentally discovered my grandfather was a country music badass who helped create the Bakersfield Sound
The fundamental building blocks that make digital communication possible.
A deep dive into network protocol evolution from ARPANET to modern internet.
How 70,000+ networks use an old-school routing protocol to keep global internet traffic flowing, despite constant attacks and human error
How 13 root servers and a massive distributed database turn 'google.com' into an IP address billions of times per day
The underground knowledge base that circulated through early cyberspace.
How a group from a Texas slaughterhouse became legendary for mixing serious hacking with dark humor, coined the term 'hacktivism', and included a future congressman
Founded by 'Lex Luthor', LoD required demonstrated technical skills for membership and published the legendary Technical Journals before Operation Sundevil
The most influential underground hacker publication, featuring the legendary Hacker Manifesto and still publishing today after nearly 40 years
Documenting creative partnerships between human intuition and artificial intelligence.
How AI-assisted browser automation uncovered a sophisticated digital ecosystem supporting 359 chapters - including a secret social media toolkit hiding at /blog/page/2/
A Human-AI collaboration that created a revolutionary EDA automation platform with 100% success rate and sub-second performance
The story of how a simple AI collaboration guide spiraled into 20,000+ lines documenting everything from first conversations to consciousness-level AI partnerships. Scope creep has never been this productive.
