This site features a curriculum developed around the television series, Halt and Catch Fire (2014-2017), a fictional narrative about people working in tech during the 1980s-1990s.

The intent is for this website to be used by self-forming small groups that want to create a “watching club” (like a book club) and discuss aspects of technology history that are featured in this series.

Designed and curated by Ashley Blewer whose own website is a work of art.

Programming time, dates, timezones, recurring events, leap seconds… everything is pretty terrible.

The common refrain in the industry is Just use UTC! Just use UTC! And that’s correct… sort of. But if you’re stuck building software that deals with time, there’s so much more to consider.

It’s time… to talk about time.

With this beautifully designed online companion to a series of presentations, Zach Holman goes deep on time as it pertains to computing history.

Related: The Wikipedia entry for the ISO 8601 standard and RFC 3339 which covers timestamps on the Internet.

Docubyte photographed the original machines at the National Museum of Computing at Bletchley Park, and the images were then retouched by Ink—and placed on a series of rather lovely coloured backgrounds—to restore them digitally to how they would have looked when new.

So. Cool.