Accidental topic this week: very, very old computers.

• Computer Show.  Modern show, looks like it’s exactly from the mid 1980s. (via multiple places)
• Computing Britain.  From the BBC, freely downloadable computing history audiofiles, quite worth it.  (via)
• Phones for the People.  I don’t think it’s as egalitarian as it is described, but it is interesting to see the variety.  (via)
• RTC Quickstart.  RTC is an alternative to the not-private-and-not-open Skype.  Why don’t more people use it?
• More secure Wi-Fi routers.  This would be the best Internet of Things approach.  (via)
• You Wouldn’t Base64 a Password.  (via)
• Blue screens of death, some of which you’ve surely seen before.  (via)
• The first Apple ][ viruses.  (via)
• Dark Castle and Macintosh System 6 Emulator.  (via)
• Vim and Composability (via)
• A Simpler Vim Statusline.  (via)
• Vim: Convenient Code Navigation for Your Projects.  (via)
• Unix commands: The joy of curl
• Ohmu.  I like the visualization.
• Wander (1974) — a lost mainframe game is found!  (via)
• Lost mainframe games (also via)
• The lack of historic knowledge is so frustrating.  AKA “learn from past mistakes”.
• The SCELBI, rebuilt.  (via)
• CSIRAC, the oldest computer that’s still physically assembled – from 1949!  (via)
• Cardboard computers.  (via)
• Long long long term data storage.  (via)
• Google Code-In starts on my birthday, and Google Summer of Code 2016 has been announced.
• INOC-DBA: dial an ASN, get the network operations center responsible for it.  One of the ways people make the complex creature called the Internet continue to function.  (via)
• sandstorm.io, self-hosting which I’ve linked to before, and  known, which I haven’t.  More tools that people will eventually regret not using.  (via)

Your comics link of the week: Cartozia Tales #1, with more added.  I subscribed to this series long ago, and it’s a lot of fun.