Minor computer history theme this week.

• Odeon theaters in LEGO.
• The guy who created the View-Master also was the first to figure out plastic trash cans.
• Home Computer Cultures and Society Before the Internet Age.  (via)
• roguelike celebration 2020 is happening virtually.
• The Gigatron, a no-microprocessor retrocomputer.  Available as a solder-yourself kit.
• The Smithsonian’s Computer Oral History Collection.  Grace Hopper, others, recorded.  (via)
• The ACM has free access to its books for the next few days; go now, before it ends.  See the source post for this for some ideas on what to read.
• A special item in that list, the Antikythera Mechanism.  I had never seen recreations of the device before.  (via)
• The Return of the 90s Web.
• Comments on that last link.
• 5 days with the MX Ergo.  I link these things just for the X notes.
• Speaking of which, Input events on X have an old world and a new world.
• The Rise and Fall of Commercial Smalltalk.  The one thing from Xerox PARC that didn’t take over the world.  (via)
• Recent Database Tech.  (via)
• The Shareware Scene, Part 5: Narratives of DOOM.