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2026 7

  1. The IBM PC, Part 2: Tsunami
  2. The IBM PC, Part 1: Arrival
  3. Computer Lessons
  4. An Apple (II) for Teacher
  5. The Home Computer War
  6. The Home Computer Hybrids: Atari, TI, and the FCC
  7. The Rise of Computer Games, Part II: Digitizing Nerddom

2025 7

  1. The Rise of Computer Games, Part I: Adventure
  2. The Useful Personal Computer
  3. Microcomputers – The Second Wave: Toward A Mass Market
  4. The Hobby Computer Culture
  5. Microcomputers – The First Wave: Responding to Altair
  6. From ACS to Altair: The Rise of the Hobby Computer
  7. Interactive Computing: A Counterculture

2024 6

  1. A Craving for Calculation
  2. A Bicycle for the Mind – Prologue
  3. Coda: Steam’s Last Stand
  4. Twilight of the Age of Steam, Part 2: Petroleum and After
  5. Twilight of the Steam Age, Part 1: Internal Combustion
  6. Steam Revolution: The Turbine

2023 7

  1. Steam and Electricity, Part 1: Electric Light
  2. The Pursuit of Efficiency and the Science of Steam
  3. America’s Steam Empire
  4. Britain’s Steam Empire
  5. The Backbone – Now in Book Form!
  6. Steamships, Part 2: The Further Adventures of Isambard Kingdom Brunel
  7. Steamships, Part I: Crossing the Atlantic

2022 5

  1. The Rail Revolution
  2. High Pressure, Part 2: The First Steam Railway
  3. High-Pressure, Part I: The Western Steamboat
  4. The Steamboat Inventors: The Second Generation
  5. The Steamboat Inventors: The First Generation

2021 8

  1. Age of Steam Hiatus
  2. The Steam Revolution
  3. James Watt, Instrument Maker
  4. The Triumvirate: Coal, Iron, and Steam
  5. The Switch – Now in Book Form!
  6. The Pumping Engine
  7. The Weight of the Air
  8. The Age of Steam: Introduction

2020 8

  1. The Backbone: Conclusion
  2. Internet Ascendant, Part 2: Going Private and Going Public
  3. Internet Ascendant, Part 1: Exponential Growth
  4. The Era of Fragmentation, Part 4: The Anarchists
  5. The Era of Fragmentation, Part 3: The Statists
  6. The Era of Fragmentation, Part 2: Sowing the Wasteland
  7. The Era of Fragmentation, Part 1: Load Factor
  8. Tangent: The Automated Dungeon Master

2019 7

  1. Inter-Networking
  2. The Computer as a Communication Device
  3. ARPANET, Part 3: The Subnet
  4. ARPANET, Part 2: The Packet
  5. ARPANET, Part 1: The Inception
  6. The Unraveling, Part 2
  7. Extending Interactivity

2018 8

  1. Discovering Interactivity
  2. The Unraveling, Part 1
  3. One System, Universal Service?
  4. The Backbone: Introduction
  5. The Switch: Introduction
  6. The Transistor, Part 3: Endless Reinvention
  7. The Transistor, Part 2: Out Of The Crucible
  8. The Transistor, Part 1: Groping in the Dark

2017 10

  1. The Electronic Computers, Part 4: The Electronic Revolution
  2. The Electronic Computers, Part 3: ENIAC
  3. The Electronic Computers, Part 2: Colossus
  4. The Electronic Computers, Part 1: Prologue
  5. The Electronic Age
  6. Lost Generation: The Relay Computers
  7. Only Connect
  8. The Speaking Telegraph
  9. The Relay
  10. The Entrepreneurs

2016 4

  1. Galvanism
  2. Far Writer
  3. An Expeditious Method of Conveying Intelligence
  4. About This Blog