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First part in the six part series that takes us into the history and development of WordPress.
A look at the fascinating history behind the one programming language with magical powers. "John McCarthy, Lisp's creator, did not originally intend for Lisp to be an elegant distillation of the principles of computation. But, after one or two fortunate insights and a series of refinements, that's what Lisp became."
Chaosnet is a long-extinct network protocol. But traces of it survive in the plumbing of the internet. Chaosnet was developed in the 1970s as a part of a larger effort to design and build a machine that could run the Lisp programming language more efficiently than a general-purpose computer.
There are two stories here. The first is a story about a vision of the web's future that never quite came to fruition. The second is a story about how a collaborative effort to improve a popular standard devolved into one of the most contentious forks in the history of open-source software development. An unabridged history of RSS' triumphs and failures.
This is the 21st project of Wes Bos's JS30 series. We make a really simple compass and speedometer with just JavaScript.