Profit or the Wild West? Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the internet, made a choice we’re still feeling. This is the story of how the internet was invented.
MIT Senior Lecturer Elena Ruehr composed and premiered a comedic opera, "The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage," imagining 19th-century thinkers Ada Lovelace and Charles Babbage as crime-fighting sleuths.
How we interact with programming environment matters more than the language, but such interaction has never been widely studied. Inspired by the idea of complementary science , this essay recovers interesting ideas from how programming used to be done using Commodore 64 BASIC. Reading about interactions is not enough and so this interactive essay lets you build a small Breakout game using a simple Commodore 64 BASIC simulator.