How I Spent Last Month
Today, I’ve posted the project on which I’ve been working (and hence hunkered down and largely invisible) for the last month: the 2017 edition of The Analytical Engine. In the 19th century, Charles Babbage imagined and invented a steam-powered mechanical apparatus which anticipated almost every aspect of modern computers. In 1997, I published on the Web a collection of original documents about Babbage’s invention, along with an emulator, written in Java, which allowed people to experience programming this machine, which was never actually built. (It is the founding member of the Victorian Brass Vapourware Club.)
Well, foolish me, I happened to buy into a vapourware fad just … Continue reading
