Historical links are the accidental theme this week.

• RFC Reader.  For those uncomfortable with plaintext?  (via)
• The truth about C & Unix history.  An oldie but goodie.  (via)
• After several decades, there’s still no standard for querying registration data, surprisingly.  There’s something coming together, though.
• Plan-55A, store and forward messaging – on paper.  (via)
• 1980s sci-fi show openings.  No fancy House of Hobbit Thrones catering to nerds back then… this was as good as it got.  (via)
• Who named Silicon Valley?  (via)
• Unix people cards.  (via)
• Big Boring System, a text only online community, and another sort of throwback like tilde.club.  (via)
• The Cryptographic Doom Principle.  A clear explanation.  (via)
• TL;DR-ify, a One Thing Well item.  Happens to contain a paragraph-sized 40-year history of hypertext on the bottom of that page.
• Ping stories.  I’ve linked to other versions before.  (via)
• The history of grep.  (via)
• The little book about OS development.  (via)
• Decentralize All the Things!  (via)
• That previous link took me to Gary Bernhardt’s Twitter feed, where I saw this pun.  Also this truth.
• His site is destroyallsoftware.com.  I like the ‘screencasts’ idea; much easier to watch than some person in a room staring into a camera.
• Also also found through that link: Sandstorm, a personal server setup.  My initial impression is that it’s similar to Owncloud.  I wish more people did this.
• Also also also: from Justin Cormack through Twitter: Unhosted.