Format Web Page "Competitive compatibility, also called adversarial interoperability, allows competitors to interoperate with incumbent services without the incumbent’s permission." View Source Location PART 2 - FOUR HIDDEN CHIMNEYS CHAPTER 10: BUILDING-BLOCK REALITY Blocks Tend to Stick Around Source title Privacy Without Monopoly: Data Protection and Interoperability Source authors Bennett Cyphers; Cory Doctorow Source year 2021 Confidence high Importance mid
Format Web Page "Paul David argued that QWERTY became standard because manufacturers and typists had strong incentives to converge on one keyboard configuration rather than because it was optimal." View Source Location PART 2 - FOUR HIDDEN CHIMNEYS CHAPTER 10: BUILDING-BLOCK REALITY Blocks Tend to Stick Around Source title Paul A. David, who made Stanford a leading center for economic history, dies at 87 Source authors John Sanford Source year 2023 Confidence high Importance high
Format Online paper / PDF "Yasuoka and Yasuoka challenge the story that TYPE WRITER was deliberately made typable on one row for sales demonstrations." View Source Location PART 2 - FOUR HIDDEN CHIMNEYS CHAPTER 10: BUILDING-BLOCK REALITY Blocks Tend to Stick Around Source title On the Prehistory of QWERTY Source authors Koichi Yasuoka; Motoko Yasuoka Source year 2011 Confidence high Importance mid
Format Online paper / PDF "Yasuoka and Yasuoka reconstruct the early Type-Writer keyboard as developing in connection with Morse telegraph reception." View Source Location PART 2 - FOUR HIDDEN CHIMNEYS CHAPTER 10: BUILDING-BLOCK REALITY Blocks Tend to Stick Around Source title On the Prehistory of QWERTY Source authors Koichi Yasuoka; Motoko Yasuoka Source year 2011 Confidence high Importance high
Format Online paper / PDF "QWERTY did not systematically separate frequent English digrams in the Sholes & Glidden typebar basket." View Source Location PART 2 - FOUR HIDDEN CHIMNEYS CHAPTER 10: BUILDING-BLOCK REALITY Blocks Tend to Stick Around Source title On the Prehistory of QWERTY Source authors Koichi Yasuoka; Motoko Yasuoka Source year 2011 Confidence high Importance high
Format Web Page "Remington put the Sholes & Glidden Type Writer on the market in 1874, and its keyboard used the enduring QWERTY pattern from the beginning." View Source Location PART 2 - FOUR HIDDEN CHIMNEYS CHAPTER 10: BUILDING-BLOCK REALITY Blocks Tend to Stick Around Source title Sholes & Glidden Type Writer Source authors National Museum of American History Source year 2026 Confidence high Importance mid
Format Web Page "As of 30 September 2026, W3Techs identifies Unix on 92.1% and Linux on 62.6% of websites whose operating system it knows." View Source Location PART 2 - FOUR HIDDEN CHIMNEYS CHAPTER 10: BUILDING-BLOCK REALITY Blocks Tend to Stick Around Source title Comparison of the usage statistics of Unix vs. Linux vs. Solaris for websites Source authors W3Techs Source year 2026 Confidence high Importance mid
Format Web Page "Taleb’s Lindy heuristic treats nonperishable technologies as Lindy-compatible and links longer survival with longer expected future life." View Source Location PART 2 - FOUR HIDDEN CHIMNEYS CHAPTER 10: BUILDING-BLOCK REALITY Blocks Tend to Stick Around Source title An Expert Called Lindy Source authors Nassim Nicholas Taleb Source year 2017 Confidence high Importance mid
Format Web Page "Widespread deployment and Internet ossification make the IP service model harder to evolve, and changes must account for existing TCP/IP applications." View Source Location PART 2 - FOUR HIDDEN CHIMNEYS CHAPTER 10: BUILDING-BLOCK REALITY Blocks Tend to Stick Around Source title RFC 6250: Evolution of the IP Model Source authors D. Thaler Source year 2011 Confidence high Importance high
Format Web Page "Internet hosts communicate using the layered Internet protocol suite, including IP and transport protocols." View Source Location PART 2 - FOUR HIDDEN CHIMNEYS CHAPTER 10: BUILDING-BLOCK REALITY Blocks Tend to Stick Around Source title RFC 1122: STD 3: Requirements for Internet Hosts - Communication Layers Source authors R. Braden Source year 1989 Confidence high Importance high
