Good read on the early history of JSON, and how it became the ubiquitous format it is today:
miniblog.
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There are labels that make technology ideas sound more exciting. For example, 'augmented intelligence' was used early in the history of computing.
(A pocket calculator would qualify but it's less cool.)
Is there a good term for this phenomenon? It's hype that inspired projects.
I'm experimenting with Atuin for searching my terminal history: https://atuin.sh/
Previously I'd just used fzf to find items, which does work nicely. Occasionally I *really* want to search "commands which were run in this directory" though, which Atuin offers.
TIL that Pong was originally a warm-up exercise for a new employee at Atari!
