Love to see this.
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love this
Disclaimer: I'm a member of the Computer History Museum
My favorite part about the Computer History Museum is the events they hold occasionally where they have live interviews and demos from legendary figures in computing. Over the years I've been to events celebrating the 45th anniversary of the Xerox Alto (including a live demo of Smalltalk-76 run by Dan Ingalls on a Xerox Alto!), the 40th anniversary of the Apple Lisa, and the 40th anniversary of the original Apple Macintosh. There's also a chance to meet legendary figures in person. I've met and had conversations with Dan Ingalls, Yoshiki Ohshima (who is a long-time collaborator of Xerox PARC legend Alan Kay), Charles Simonyi (created the Bravo word processor at Xerox PARC, became wealthy at Microsoft, and founded Intentional Software), Marshall Kirk McKusick (BSD), David Ungar (created the Self programming language), and Donald Knuth (The Art of Computer Programming, Concrete Mathematics, TeX, and much more).
I'm also a fan of the museum's recorded interviews with legendary figures and the digital artifacts they have, including source code to historical projects.
One of the best parts about living near Silicon Valley, in my opinion, is being able to meet and converse with people who made significant contributions to computing, since many of them live in Silicon Valley. While the cost of living is a challenge (I'm a tenure-track professor who teaches CS and thus I don't have a FAANG salary, not to mention I don't get bonuses or stock grants), it's great being able to be in close proximity to the people who encouraged me to pursue a career in computing.
As a CHM staffer who produced the Lisa@40 and Mac@40 events, I'm so gratified to hear these were as meaningful to you as they were to me! :)
So grateful to have you as a member. Don't miss our upcoming 1995 retrospective event focusing on Netscape's IPO and Windows 95 & Internet Explorer, on August 26! Should be a another fun nostalgic event: https://computerhistory.org/events/1995-the-internets-big-ba...
Oh, and I sat in on the interview with Bill Atkinson posted by OP and it's great to see this clip getting some love from HN. Our Oral History program is so awesome too. --David Murphy
davidmurphy commented on VC money is fueling a global boom in worker surveillance tech restofworld.org/2025/empl... · Posted by u/Brajeshwar
Speaking personally, I find this utterly deplorable.
davidmurphy commented on OpenAI to buy AI startup from Jony Ive bloomberg.com/news/articl... · Posted by u/minimaxir
> Sam Altman who planned and executed the extraction of Reddit from Condé Nast
Relevant thread where Sam acknowledges the plan.
https://old.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/3cs78i/whats_the...
whoa!!
davidmurphy commented on Car companies are in a billion-dollar software war insideevs.com/features/75... · Posted by u/rntn
Hardware companies trying to build software, without actually understanding software.
There's a reason why Apple, Nvidia, Tesla got where they got to.
It's an absolute shame Apple killed their car project
As a lifelong Mac geek (I work for the Computer History Museum, where I organized our Macintosh 40th Anniversary and Lisa 40th events), I just want to say love this :)
The nolstalgia is real. Thanks for your hard work!
davidmurphy commented on Show HN: Clippy – 90s UI for local LLMs felixrieseberg.github.io/... · Posted by u/felixrieseberg
awesome. I shared this with colleagues at the Computer History Museum!!
It's a lot.