It's a big world, and I personally don't know anything about the history of soft...

petcat · 2026-09-03T13:00:41

> Known as the "godfather" of programmers in the internet era

BigTTYGothGF · 2026-09-03T14:54:15

Well, was he? I mean, I never heard of him, but all I know about the Chinese internet from those years I got from reading China Smack.

Nzen · 2026-09-03T14:14:05

I can't speak to computing history in China, but Read Only Memory has books about the Japanese [0] and British [1] video game companies. MIT has published books about computing in Taiwan, Bulgaria, and China [2]. The former two are even open access, so you can download them for free.

[0] https://readonlymemory.com/products/japansoft-an-oral-histor...

[1] https://readonlymemory.com/products/britsoft-an-oral-history

[2] https://direct.mit.edu/books/search-results?f_ContentType=Bo...

decimalenough · 2026-09-03T14:46:07

What does any of this have to do with Chen Danyan?