26 days ago
veen : From Cave Paintings to the Internet: 70,000 BCE to 8,000 BCE Timeline - "Since publication of a relatively brief static version in my 2005 book, From Gutenberg to the Internet, this timeline has been a work in progress, and as it has grown so has its scope."
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Rod Begbie : "November 4, 2008" by Patrick Moberg - #44! [via] #
Greg Storey : November 4, 2008.
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Linkorama : Calling the race to 270 - VIRGINIA goes blue, Texas stays red and New Hampshire just wants attention. We (quickly) track the changes to the electoral map since June:
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philgyford : Photographic collection homepage from London transport museum - More than 16,000 historical photos of London, nicely browsable. You can even add comments to each one. Would be nice if they enlarged bigger, but otherwise fab.
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gleuschk : Mathematical Miniatures, by Beno Eckmann - I especially like the first one about the birth of arrows
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2 month ago
Andy Baio : Try Google Search as it looked in January 2001 - extremely surreal flashback only available for one month; predates 9/11, YouTube, Sarah Palin, or this blog [via]
Rod Begbie : Google 2001 - In celebration of their tenth birthday, Google have resuscitated their search index from January 2001. Ah, the good old days, when "ROD BEGBIE IN VIRGIN SNOG SHOCKER!" turned up on the second page of results for my egosurf. [via] #
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2 month ago
veen : History of U.S. Government Bailouts - ProPublica - "With the flurry of recent government bailouts, we decided to try to put them in perspective. The circles below represent the size of U.S. government bailout, calculated in 2008 dollars. They are also in chronological order."
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2 month ago
deusx : The History of Mozilla - Evangelism Wiki - "This presentation goes into a bit more detail than any single presentation probably should. The idea behind it is to include all of the major milestones in the 10 year history of the Mozilla project and to provide a timeline from which key areas or
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2 month ago
gleuschk : The Continuing Silence of Bourbaki - interview from 1997 with Pierre Cartier
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3 month ago
gleuschk : WebAIM: Blog - History of the browser user-agent string - what a hilarious mess (as long as I don't have to deal with it)
Rod Begbie : History of the browser user-agent string - Or how we got from "NCSA_Mosaic/2.0 (Windows 3.1)" to "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/525.13 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/0.2.149.27 Safari/525.13" [via] #
François Hodierne : WebAIM: Blog - History of the browser user-agent string - And then Google built Chrome, and Chrome used Webkit, and it was like Safari, and wanted pages built for Safari, and so pretended to be Safari. And thus Chrome used WebKit, and pretended to be Safari, and WebKit pretended to be KHTML, and KHTML pretended #
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3 month ago
veen : Bikeway or the Highway - March/April 2008 - Sierra Magazine - Sierra Club - "IN 1900, SOUTHERN CALIFORNIANS CREATED a futuristic traffic structure catering to the mechanical marvel of the day--the bicycle. It opened along a corridor known as the Arroyo Seco, named for the seasonal stream that flows from the San Gabriel Mount
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3 month ago
gleuschk : SUNDAY October 1, 1995; SCHOOL: Thrift Slop - New York Times - scroungers! I never knew they made the nyt! just after I left, too
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3 month ago
Andy Baio : Gamasutra's long oral history of Atari's golden years - 23,000 words! also, don't miss Steve Fulton's earlier feature on Atari's roots
joshua : atari, the golden years
deusx : Atari: The Golden Years -- A History, 1978-1981 - "This four-year period -- from 1977 to 1981 -- contains some of the most exciting developments the company ever saw in its history: the rise of the 2600, the development of some of the company's most enduringly popular games (Centipede, Asteroid
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3 month ago
philgyford : Twitter / novelsin3lines - I'm very much enjoying the 1906 French news summaries by Félix Fénéon (and not just because I wrote it up as an idea myself a while back). Lovely writing.
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3 month ago
philgyford : Newspapers and magazines - Digital National library of Serbia - Scanned and browsable issues, from the avant-garde 'Zenit' to 'Advanced Beekeeping'. Awesome (especially if you read Serbian).
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gleuschk : Grothendieck at 80, IHES at 50 | notices - I'd really like to see the "open letter" that Allyn Jackson is so coy about. Anyone?
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4 month ago
deusx : Victory garden - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - "Victory gardens, also called war gardens or food gardens for defense, were vegetable, fruit and herb gardens planted at private residences in the United States, Canada, and United Kingdom during World War I and World War II to reduce the pressure on
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5 month ago
nelson : proposed new tag: IMG - 1993 archives. I love how the original proposal is what we ended up doing, and all the later suggestions are terrible
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gleuschk : YouTube - I Love SU - A Tribute to Syracuse University - from years and years ago, when there was a BK on Marshall St, ties were narrow, hair was big, and mustaches were mustaches
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6 month ago
gleuschk : A d i r o n d a c k B o y s: When Penfield Closed, Tradition was Put to Bed - the story of the house on top of the factory
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6 month ago
adamrg : Time travel back to 1000 A.D.: Survival tips - Surviving the year 1000 with 21st century knowledge. Fun thought puzzle.
philgyford : Marginal Revolution: Time travel back to 1000 A.D.: Survival tips - The post that resulted in Jason's post. Yet more conflicting but interesting ideas about how you'd survive. (via Kottke)
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6 month ago
Linkorama : Jon Lebkowsky on Early Days of Web 2.0″ - Jon Lebkowsky talks about the early days of Web 2.0, how Austin is evolving in the digital media space, and what he proposes to grow it.
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7 month ago
jcgregorio : BC Squared - "the Java development segment of the industry has been chugging along for 10+ years just fine without it [closures] tells me that it's not really all that important." Substitute 'structured programming', or 'OO', for historical fun.
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7 month ago
Andy Baio : Things Younger Than John McCain - I didn't realize he'd be the oldest US President ever [via]
adamrg : Things younger than Republican Presidential candidate
Rod Begbie : Things younger than John McCain - The state of Alaska, the polio vaccine, and both of Barack Obama's parents are younger than John McCain. [via] #
jcgregorio : Things younger than Republican Presidential candidate (oh, and did I forget to mention “war hero”?) John McCain - List includes the Golden Gate Bridge.
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