Neil Meyer

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Why is the keyboard and cellphone / telephone numbers in a different order?

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What did the 'turbo' button actually do?

May 20, 2019

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How could early UNIX OS comprise so few lines of code?

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Were any of the books mentioned in this scene from the movie Hackers real?

May 13, 2019

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Is it true that Netscape Navigator eventually became Mozilla Firefox?

Mar 24, 2020

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Did Pascal programmers really move on to Java in the 90s?

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Was there any technological reason that C was designed to return only a single thing from a function?

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What did the 'turbo' button actually do?

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Who invented garbage collection?

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Why is the keyboard and cellphone / telephone numbers in a different order?

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How were the signs for logical and arithmetic operators decided?

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