If you're looking for lo-fi, try Lynx.

Thank you for this moment of humour. It was much needed.

Great read! Intriguing to find out that earlier computers were using rotating drum memory systems in space flight and then delicate wiring in cores, I really hadn't considered that. I wonder about the reliability of those systems and whether there was software compensation for that issue.

I would like to know more about Anton, and the irascible Qc Na.

"Engrossing technical problems are convenient blinders for inconvenient truths."

Where does this take us though? If you build a bridge, how do you know what will go across it? Either we all stop or we accept that not all ethical questions can be resolved by individuals acting alone.

> Though coding is a foreign language to most people, the principles of plagiarism are the same as with papers written in English.

English is a foreign language to most people too. You expect more from the NYT.

I don't think that it generated these diagrams, but you should check out planttext (http://www.planttext.com/) - makes UML diagrams easy.

Wow, I didn't think the day would come when I felt sorry for designers.