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"title": "Pascal's Pascaline, or how a teenager tried to spare his father from arithmetic",
"url": "https://thingshavehistory.com/posts/pascals-pascaline/",
"published_at": "2026-04-21T00:00:00+00:00"
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"title": "Leibniz's Stepped Reckoner, or what a pedometer started",
"url": "https://thingshavehistory.com/posts/leibniz-stepped-reckoner/",
"published_at": "2026-04-21T00:00:00+00:00"
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"title": "The Jacquard loom, or how a silk weaver programmed a machine",
"url": "https://thingshavehistory.com/posts/jacquard-loom/",
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"title": "Ada Lovelace's Note G, or the first program for a machine that didn't exist",
"url": "https://thingshavehistory.com/posts/ada-lovelace-note-g/",
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"id": "01a08c54-5d05-715d-82d2-3b6500e3701e",
"title": "Bell's telephone, or how nine words traveled down a wire",
"url": "https://thingshavehistory.com/posts/bells-telephone-1876/",
"published_at": "2026-04-21T00:00:00+00:00"
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"title": "The New Haven exchange, or how a switchboard made from teapot lids wired a city",
"url": "https://thingshavehistory.com/posts/new-haven-exchange-1878/",
"published_at": "2026-04-21T00:00:00+00:00"
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"title": "OXO, or the video game that Cambridge kept to itself",
"url": "https://thingshavehistory.com/posts/oxo-1952/",
"published_at": "2026-04-21T00:00:00+00:00"
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"title": "Tennis for Two, or the physicist who didn't notice what he'd done",
"url": "https://thingshavehistory.com/posts/tennis-for-two/",
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"title": "TECO, or the editor that was also a programming language",
"url": "https://thingshavehistory.com/posts/teco/",
"published_at": "2026-04-21T00:00:00+00:00"
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"id": "01a08c54-5d05-715d-82d2-3b65369ca90d",
"title": "The letter that killed the goto",
"url": "https://thingshavehistory.com/posts/goto-considered-harmful/",
"published_at": "2026-04-21T00:00:00+00:00"
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"title": "Structured programming: sequence, selection, iteration",
"url": "https://thingshavehistory.com/posts/structured-programming-1972/",
"published_at": "2026-04-21T00:00:00+00:00"
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