InOrdinary ProgrammerbyEvan Zhou·2d agoBefore DNS, the Internet Copied One Text File From California Every Week — A nd Nearly Broke At…From a Menlo Park phone number in RFC 810 to the O(N²) crunch that forced distributed namingA response icon4A response icon4
InIT ChroniclesbyEvan Zhou·3d agoHe Wanted To Measure The Size Of The Internet — And Ended Up Crashing One-Tenth Of ItHow a 1-in-7 anti-spoofing rule turned a counting program into a 6,000-machine deadlockA response icon1A response icon1
InOrdinary ProgrammerbyEvan Zhou·6d agoHe Created the World’s Most Popular Game — Yet Earned Nothing From It for a DecadeFrom a 1984 Moscow terminal to a global corporate war — the engineering and decade of zero royalties behind TetrisA response icon7A response icon7
InOrdinary ProgrammerbyEvan Zhou·Nov 6Clocked 800MHz Lower, Yet Ran Faster — How Mobile Computing Rewrote the Rules of SiliconFrom the collapse of the Megahertz Myth to micro-ops fusion and the mobile revolutionA response icon1A response icon1
InIT ChroniclesbyEvan Zhou·Nov 5After Boeing Shut Down His Lab, He Put A Hard Drive In The Personal ComputerFrom the B-tree on a Seattle blackboard to 55 chips in the Alto chassis — Edward McCreight’s two answers to spinning magnetic disksA response icon2A response icon2
InOrdinary ProgrammerbyEvan Zhou·Nov 3How Transmeta Challenged x86 With Dynamic Translation But Failed To Win The Mobile Chip MarketCode morphing, VLIW, and the trade-offs behind CrusoeA response icon1A response icon1
InIT ChroniclesbyEvan Zhou·Nov 1The Tree Behind Nearly Every Database Came from Boeing AS It Cut 46,000 WorkersA single page sketched on a Seattle blackboard in 1969 — and an aerospace giant collapsing the following yearA response icon5A response icon5
InIT ChroniclesbyEvan Zhou·Oct 23The 100MB Blue Disk That Conquered 1990s Computing — And Why It Collapsed So FastHow Iomega’s 199-Dollar Hardware Gamble Unraveled in the Face of Quality Woes and Writable CDsA response icon24A response icon24
InIT ChroniclesbyEvan Zhou·Oct 15The $25 Chip in a Pickle Jar That Stole The PC Revolution From MotorolaHow Chuck Peddle defied Motorola and faked a production line to spark the 8-bit revolutionA response icon4A response icon4
InOrdinary ProgrammerbyEvan Zhou·Oct 7I Automated Short-Form Video Production for $0.55 A Clip — A 7-Day Architecture RetrospectiveHow Word-anchored Compilation, Split Avatar Audio, and a Supervised Agent Loop Cut Manual Video Work by 95%A response icon1A response icon1
