Another informal history theme, not uncommon.

• Amulets, cassette tape art?  (via)
• Early warning signs of shitty software.
• Let’s Not Dumb Down the History of Computer Science, by Knuth.  (via)
• The History of Trackers.  (via)
• The Second Coming of Star Wars.  The video games.
• The quest for Wolfenstein 3D music on the Apple IIgs.
• Tomorrow is ENIAC Day.  75 years!  (via)
• MIDICSV.  Structured text and music, has potential.  (via)
• How and why I stopped buying new laptops.  (via)
• On Planetary in 2020.
• 50 Years of Text Games: 1976: Adventure.
• The Animation That Changed Cinema.  30 minutes of good animation.
• Free MWL novel.

Your unrelated music link of the week: Best electronic music on Bandcamp, January 2021.