Lunduke's Favorite Stories of 2022

2022 has been a big year for The Lunduke Journal. A big year, filled with big articles.

What follows are some of my personal favorites — not necessarily the most popular articles… but the ones that I found the most interesting. Or that made me smile the most.

A few news items, some historical pieces, and a few bits of satire. All over the map, really.

Presented here, in no particular order. Because putting them in order was too hard.

Also… I was going to do my “Top 10 Favorite”. But that was too hard too. So… there’s 12 of them.

Enjoy.

* Firefox Money: Investigating the bizarre finances of Mozilla

* BREAKING: The Lunduke Journal predicts 37% more buzzwords in 2023

* The computers used to do 3D animation for Final Fantasy VII... in 1996.

* Linus Torvalds threatens to punish developers by putting Rust in the Linux Kernel

* DESQview/X : The forgotten mid-1990s OS from the future

* Linux Sucks 2022

* Local man switches to Arch, tells no one

* Wendin-DOS : The forgotten multi-tasking, multi-user DOS clone from the 1980s.

* The wild events that nearly took down the QB64 project (but, thankfully, didn't)

* W: The Window System before X... that nobody seems to remember

* Who is the (real) first Computer Programmer?

* The story of the first "computer bug"... is a pile of lies.

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