50% history, 50% new things that I love about the Internet.

• WELCOME TO ARMAGEDDON!  An in-depth exploration of Armageddon MUD, from one of my favorite magazines.
• Gladys Project – Creating an open-source home assistant.  (via)
• Today in Computational Necromancy: MOST-POSITIVE-BIGNUM, redux.
• 1990, meet 2018: How far does 20MHz of Macintosh IIsi power go today?  (via)
• The Influence of the UNIX® Operating System on the Development of Two Video Games.  (PDF, via)
• zevv/bucklespring: emulate the sound of a Model M keyboard.  (via)
• Hell is other programmers.
• Did blogs ruin the web? Or did the web ruin blogs?
• There was a time when search engines were a thing. And it seems they still are.
• Jackson and Gregg on optimization.