Accidental theme this week: the 1990s.
- Normalization of deviance in software: how broken practices become standard. Matches every place I’ve ever worked. (via
 - The Advent of Void. I wish someone would do this with BSD packages. (via)
 - wiby, a 90s-only search engine. (via)
 - What Have We Learned from the PDP-11? (via)
 - VPN recommendations.
 - Games on the Net Before the Web, Part 1: Strategy and Simulation. You will surely have heard of some of these games, even if you never encountered them.
 - 90s CD-ROM games.
 - The man with a DiscMan. More 90s.
 
Your unrelated photo of the week: untitled.

Interesting article about DEC!
I read through and realized I was reading the New Yorker, you monster!