Lunduke's Favorite Stories of 2022

Date:
Fri, 30 Dec 2022 01:29:49 GMT

Description:
Listen now (38 min) | News, history, & satire. The computer-y articles that Lunduke found the most interesting over the last year.

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2022 has been a big year for The Lunduke Journal. A big year, filled with
big articles.

What follows are some of my personal favorites not necessarily the most popular articles but the ones that I found the most interesting. Or that
made me smile the most.

A few news items, some historical pieces, and a few bits of satire. All over the map, really.

Presented here, in no particular order. Because putting them in order was
too hard.

Also I was going to do my Top 10 Favorite. But that was too hard too. So theres 12 of them.

Enjoy.

Firefox Money: Investigating the bizarre finances of Mozilla

BREAKING: The Lunduke Journal predicts 37% more buzzwords in 2023

The computers used to do 3D animation for Final Fantasy VII... in 1996.

Linus Torvalds threatens to punish developers by putting Rust in the Linux Kernel

DESQview/X : The forgotten mid-1990s OS from the future

Linux Sucks 2022

Local man switches to Arch, tells no one

Wendin-DOS : The forgotten multi-tasking, multi-user DOS clone from the 1980s.

The wild events that nearly took down the QB64 project (but, thankfully, didn't)

W: The Window System before X... that nobody seems to remember

Who is the (real) first Computer Programmer?

The story of the first "computer bug"... is a pile of lies.

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