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    Ken Shirriff righto.com
    Links per year since 2007 · peak 123 in 2020 · 49 this year538 people4 recommendlast post 2026-10-18hardwarehistoryprogramming
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    A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry acoup.blog
    Links per year since 2007 · peak 217 in 2022 · 124 this year510 people4 recommendlast post 2026-10-30historyculture
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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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    Mark Dominus blog.plover.com
    Links per year since 2007 · peak 58 in 2026 · 58 this year264 people8 recommendlast post 2026-10-06programmingmathhistory
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    Tedium tedium.co
    Links per year since 2007 · peak 76 in 2024 · 34 this year212 peoplelast post 2026-10-27historyhardware
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    pagetable.com pagetable.com
    Links per year since 2007 · peak 68 in 2019 · 15 this year183 people6 recommendlast post 2026-10-18systemshardwarehistory
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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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    Alex Wellerstein nuclearsecrecy.com
    Links per year since 2007 · peak 21 in 2022 · 4 this year150 people8 recommendlast post 2026-02-10sciencehistory
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    John Graham-Cumming blog.jgc.org
    Links per year since 2007 · peak 174 in 2012 · 26 this year135 peoplelast post 2026-09-09programmingsecurityhistory
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    Two-Bit History 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 2026-09-29programmingbusinesshistory
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    Jordan Mechner jordanmechner.com
    Links per year since 2007 · peak 22 in 2012 · 4 this year84 people24 recommendlast post 2026-10-14gameswritinghistory
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    OtherHand otherhand.org
    Links per year since 2007 · peak 20 in 2019 · 1 this year78 peoplelast post 2019-08-01inactiveculturehistory
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    Marcin Wichary aresluna.org
    Links per year since 2007 · peak 34 in 2026 · 34 this year70 people10 recommendlast post 2026-09-18designhistorywriting
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    Gough Lui goughlui.com
    Links per year since 2007 · peak 14 in 2026 · 14 this year70 people4 recommendlast post 2026-11-01hardwarehistoryother
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    Moneyness jpkoning.blogspot.com
    Links per year since 2007 · peak 40 in 2020 · 0 this year65 people5 recommendlast post 2025-04-28economicshistory
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    David L. Farquhar dfarq.homeip.net
    Links per year since 2007 · peak 86 in 2025 · 83 this year64 people1 recommendlast post 2026-11-01hardwarehistory
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    A Programmers Place vanemden.wordpress.com
    Links per year since 2007 · peak 12 in 2010 · 1 this year60 people5 recommendlast post 2019-10-20inactiveprogramminghistory
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    Matt Lakeman mattlakeman.org
    Links per year since 2007 · peak 27 in 2024 · 11 this year59 people17 recommendlast post 2026-03-26culturehistory
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    Ex Urbe exurbe.com
    Links per year since 2007 · peak 14 in 2020 · 5 this year57 people19 recommendlast post 2026-01-29historyphilosophy
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    Jack Despain Zhou tracingwoodgrains.com
    Links per year since 2007 · peak 45 in 2025 · 18 this year57 peoplelast post 2026-09-12culturehistory
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    John Hawks johnhawks.net
    Links per year since 2007 · peak 16 in 2016 · 3 this year54 people2 recommendlast post 2026-10-24sciencehistory
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    Mr. and Mrs. Psmith’s Bookshelf thepsmiths.com
    Links per year since 2007 · peak 31 in 2024 · 23 this year51 people5 recommendlast post 2026-08-31writinghistoryculture
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    The Renaissance Mathematicus thonyc.wordpress.com
    Links per year since 2007 · peak 19 in 2017 · 2 this year50 people6 recommendlast post 2026-10-30historysciencemath
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    Adam Tooze adamtooze.substack.com
    Links per year since 2007 · peak 26 in 2022 · 3 this year50 people5 recommendlast post 2026-11-01economicspoliticshistory
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    Peter Turchin peterturchin.com
    Links per year since 2007 · peak 16 in 2021 · 1 this year48 people7 recommendlast post 2026-11-01historysciencepolitics
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    Bradford Morgan White abortretry.fail
    Links per year since 2007 · peak 83 in 2025 · 19 this year47 people5 recommendlast post 2026-10-04historyhardwaresystems
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    Old Vintage Computing Research oldvcr.blogspot.com
    Links per year since 2007 · peak 53 in 2022 · 28 this year46 people3 recommendlast post 2026-10-25hardwarehistory
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    Peter Adamson historyofphilosophy.net
    Links per year since 2007 · peak 13 in 2023 · 0 this year46 peoplelast post 2026-11-01philosophyhistory
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    The History Blog thehistoryblog.com
    Links per year since 2007 · peak 23 in 2026 · 23 this year45 peoplelast post 2026-11-01history