https://mckoss.com/tags/history/ Recent content in History on mckoss.com | Mike Koss Hugo en-us Fri, 26 Jun 2026 19:42:00 -0700 https://mckoss.com/posts/excel-at-40/ Fri, 26 Jun 2026 19:42:00 -0700 https://mckoss.com/posts/excel-at-40/ A talk I gave for Excel’s 40th anniversary about the history behind the first version of Microsoft Excel, along with a BBC Witness History interview about the same story. https://mckoss.com/posts/men-through-ages-ai/ Wed, 01 Mar 2023 20:30:12 +0000 https://mckoss.com/posts/men-through-ages-ai/ Testing whether historical prompts change Midjourney’s idea of an average man. https://mckoss.com/posts/oop-javascript/ Sat, 14 Jan 2006 10:00:00 -0800 https://mckoss.com/posts/oop-javascript/ How to define classes, methods, and sub-classes in JavaScript using constructors and the prototype chain, written when AJAX was new and before JavaScript had a class keyword. https://mckoss.com/posts/tiny-3x5-font/ Sat, 17 Dec 2005 10:27:00 -0800 https://mckoss.com/posts/tiny-3x5-font/ I created this very tiny (but legible) bitmap font in 1980 for an Apple II terminal emulator. Now available as a modern web font, with the full text of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland to read in it. https://mckoss.com/logo/ Sun, 25 Feb 1996 10:00:00 -0800 https://mckoss.com/logo/ In 1995 I taught my son’s second grade class to program in Logo. Here are the lessons and worksheets I wrote for them, from turtle basics to music and recursion.