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The Myth of the Harvard Architecture
The label “Harvard architecture” has been applied to various computing devices where instructions and data are stored in separate memories. In the Harvard Mark III/IV the decision to separate the stores was motivated by a desire to optimize…
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How EUNET Hacked European Digital Networks and Disappeared
This is the story of how Unix users hacked the European data networks competition in the 1980s, by using and appropriating common resources for their own experimental and operational needs while planting the seeds of participatory digital culture, both…
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Artist Collectives as the Origins of DDoS the Strano Network and Electronic Disturbance Theater
This article explores the role of artist collectives in the original innovation of distributed-denial-of-service attacks. While current scholarship references the artist collectives Strano Network and Electronic Disturbance Theater as separate case stu…
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What/Whom is the Brazilian University for? The Case of the Computing Projects Laboratory
This article discusses the social function of Brazilian universities from the standpoint of the history of computing in Brazil, revisiting the dissolution of the Computing Projects Laboratory (LPC), a lab of the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de…
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Entrepreneurial Hustle and the Rise (and Fall) of Personal Computer Companies in Lagos, Nigeria: 1960–1999
This article presents a brief background of the personal computer boom in Lagos, including the early history of computing and the rise of technology entrepreneurship in Nigeria. I then discuss the impact of Nigeria’s structural adjustment program on th…