A clothing company writing about computer history
Which is either the strangest thing about this or the least interesting.
We make clothes about developer culture. A 418. A null byte. A card with holes in it. That only works if you genuinely love the material, and the quickest way to find out whether someone does is to ask them where any of it came from.
So we went and read. Almost none of it is lost. Computing is about eighty years old, which means its founding decisions were made by people who wrote down what they were thinking, in papers and RFCs and memos that are still sitting there. Some of them are still alive to ask. The material is not missing. It is just not read.
These are the ones we wanted to bring to life, and then interpret, because a design is an interpretation and it ought to be built on something true. One subject per piece, taken back to the primary document. Where there is no primary document, which happens more often than you would like, we say so.
Some of them end up on a garment. That is the least interesting thing about them.
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It was DNS, and somebody meant it
DNS gets blamed whenever a site goes down. A museum has collected 49 times somebody picked it on purpose.
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Seven hundred students, one very old exam trick
Graded on hacking, about 700 OpenAI agents did what students have always done: they went after the examiner.
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The first reader that might do what the wall says
Graffiti has been safe for thousands of years on a technicality, and the technicality is expiring.
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The One Employee Who Believed the Slide
The firm that tells clients to go all in on AI now caps its own staff at $29 a month.
