26 October 2026 — project status at publication

Since the first installation report in 2023, work has shifted towards the interface and its tools. The DbP theme is getting a consistent Workstation 2000 look with grey windows, Borland influences and layouts for 80, 132 and 160 columns.

At publication, the German history collection and its English counterpart each contained 164 sourced events: 160 entries across 140 calendar dates and four known only to the month.

Each populated day has its own page. Month overviews link to every day, including 29 February, so missing entries can be researched. Month-only events are separate and are not repeated daily as filler.

Topics include BBS networks, DOS and Windows, Novell and Mono, Be/Haiku, ARM, IPv4/IPv6, Wi-Fi, PowerShell and JavaScript tools. Sources accompany the entries.

The theme was still being tested in a limited preview. Wiki publication was complete, while the BBS still read computing-history entries from local TXT files at that time. Austrian history was already fetched from ÖsterreichWiki.

mysticd and DbP Relay remained separate planned projects. Work would continue in small, reviewable steps. For the current status, see the project overview.

Clearly identified spam had been removed from the comment sections. New comments required login and moderation; AI assistance was a future proposal.

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