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    Ken Shirriff righto.com
    Links per year since 2007 · peak 123 in 2020 · 49 this year538 people4 recommendlast post 2026-10-18hardwarehistorywriting
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    Bret Devereaux acoup.blog
    Links per year since 2007 · peak 217 in 2022 · 124 this year510 people4 recommendlast post 2026-10-30historywriting
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    The Digital Antiquarian filfre.net
    Links per year since 2007 · peak 135 in 2018 · 65 this year281 people12 recommendlast post 2026-10-30gameshistory
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    pagetable.com pagetable.com
    Links per year since 2007 · peak 68 in 2019 · 15 this year183 people6 recommendlast post 2026-10-18hardwareprogramminghistory
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    Dan Carlin dancarlin.com
    Links per year since 2007 · peak 29 in 2015 · 4 this year178 people23 recommendlast post 2014-11-06inactivehistoryculture
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    Jason Scott ascii.textfiles.com
    Links per year since 2007 · peak 63 in 2015 · 6 this year167 people3 recommendlast post 2026-07-21historyculture
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    construction-physics.com construction-physics.com
    Links per year since 2007 · peak 134 in 2025 · 102 this year163 people12 recommendno feedeconomicsbusinesshistory
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    Admiral Cloudberg admiralcloudberg.medium.com
    Links per year since 2007 · peak 68 in 2023 · 32 this year155 people7 recommendlast post 2026-08-26writinghistoryother
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    Alex Wellerstein nuclearsecrecy.com
    Links per year since 2007 · peak 21 in 2022 · 4 this year150 people8 recommendlast post 2026-02-10historyscience
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    Alex Wellerstein blog.nuclearsecrecy.com
    Links per year since 2007 · peak 31 in 2016 · 12 this year140 people2 recommendlast post 2026-02-10historyscience
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    Jo Freeman jofreeman.com
    Links per year since 2007 · peak 21 in 2015 · 4 this year131 people18 recommendno feedpoliticshistory
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    Rob Landley landley.net
    Links per year since 2007 · peak 20 in 2024 · 7 this year126 people2 recommendlast post 2026-03-31systemsprogramminghistory
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    Technologizer by Harry McCracken technologizer.com
    Links per year since 2007 · peak 380 in 2009 · 1 this year119 people4 recommendlast post 2026-02-16hardwarehistory
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    Craig Murray craigmurray.org.uk
    Links per year since 2007 · peak 86 in 2020 · 7 this year114 people4 recommendlast post 2026-10-29politicshistory
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    Andrew Jenner int10h.org
    Links per year since 2007 · peak 28 in 2020 · 12 this year114 people8 recommendno feedhardwaregameshistory
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    Charles Petzold charlespetzold.com
    Links per year since 2007 · peak 18 in 2022 · 7 this year113 people18 recommendlast post 2026-09-03programmingwritinghistory
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    The DigiBarn Computer Museum digibarn.com
    Links per year since 2007 · peak 12 in 2011 · 1 this year104 people1 recommendno feedhistoryhardwareculture
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    Sinclair Target twobithistory.org
    Links per year since 2007 · peak 28 in 2020 · 3 this year100 people14 recommendlast post 2021-03-08inactivehistoryprogrammingsystems
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    Steven Sinofsky hardcoresoftware.learningbyshipping.com
    Links per year since 2007 · peak 46 in 2021 · 21 this year88 people8 recommendlast post 2026-09-29hardwarestartupshistory
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    Skeptoid skeptoid.com
    Links per year since 2007 · peak 20 in 2014 · 4 this year87 people7 recommendlast post 2026-10-27sciencehistory
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    The History of the Web thehistoryoftheweb.com
    Links per year since 2007 · peak 33 in 2025 · 11 this year86 people5 recommendlast post 2026-09-22webhistory
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    Marcin Wichary aresluna.org
    Links per year since 2007 · peak 34 in 2026 · 34 this year70 peoplelast post 2026-09-18designhistory
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    Kent Pitman nhplace.com
    Links per year since 2007 · peak 14 in 2011 · 2 this year70 peopleno feedprogramminghistory
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    Ed Thelen's Nike Missile Web Site ed-thelen.org
    Links per year since 2007 · peak 11 in 2022 · 4 this year68 peopleno feedhistoryhardwareprogramming
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    David L. Farquhar dfarq.homeip.net
    Links per year since 2007 · peak 86 in 2025 · 83 this year64 peoplelast post 2026-11-01hardwarehistorysecurity
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    Philip Zimmermann philzimmermann.com
    Links per year since 2007 · peak 11 in 2023 · 4 this year61 peopleno feedsecurityhistory
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    Don Hopkins art.net
    Links per year since 2007 · peak 28 in 2017 · 10 this year61 peopleno feedprogramminghistoryculture
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    Eylenburg eylenburg.github.io
    Links per year since 2007 · peak 48 in 2026 · 48 this year60 peopleno feedsystemsprogramminghistory
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    Matt Lakeman mattlakeman.org
    Links per year since 2007 · peak 27 in 2024 · 11 this year59 peoplelast post 2026-03-26writingculturehistory
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    Chris Crawford erasmatazz.com
    Links per year since 2007 · peak 23 in 2021 · 2 this year58 peoplelast post 2020-04-25inactivegameswritinghistory