A historical focus this week but then again that’s not uncommon.

• Great Moments in Taxonomy. Several links to follow.
• Team Tsathogga / City of Spires setting primer, for Severed Fane.
• Dungeons and Desktops, a history of computer RPGs.  (via)
• The Elusive Shift, early D&D from wargaming to roleplay.  (also via)
• Bent? is an alive, unstable Japanese noise box.  (via)
• Infinite Mac, an instant-booting Quadra in your browser.  I got system7.app to crash playing Marathon so that is accurate.
• Spacewar! is 60 Today!
• Why the fascination with retrocomputing?  (via)
• The Tao of Acme.  (via)
• Retro Lite CM4: a Compute Module 4 gaming console.  (via)
• Webinar –  Ethernet’s Emergence from Xerox PARC: 1975-1980.  These are not historians, but the actual people who created and implemented it.  (via)