Notices tagged with history, page 4

#OnThisDay in #hacking #history, 1990, the Secret Service raided the offices of Steve Jackson Games, a maker of roleplaying games, in Chicago.

Two employees of the company were Erik Bloodaxe & The Mentor, at the time infamous hackers. The SS claimed they thought a Cyberpunk role-playing tabletop was a hacking tutorial.

It's #BlackHistoryMonth, and in 2024 I'm reflecting on the fact that although I've known about Walter Rodney and his seminal work "How Europe Underdeveloped Africa" for years, it wasn't until I started reading it last year that I found out that Rodney was assassinated by his own Guyanese government in a car bombing. He was 38.

I'm obligated to point out to fellow white people, in case you missed it, the trend of white people lionizing a heroic Black person in a show of solidarity while studiously ignoring the vicious violence enacted against that person by the powers that be.

Also, Rodney was banned from Jamaica and from his teaching position at the University of the West Indies in Mona, Jamaica. This caused protests that escalated to riots in Kingston in 1968. Part of the wave of protests that swept the world from that year to the next.

Anyway, please read Rodney.
And/or about Rodney. https://web.archive.org/web/20041105060409/http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/%7Emarto/pbs/roberts.htm
#books #history #histodons #WalterRodney #Guyana #CaribbeanHistory #PanAfrican #Marxism @histodons

A chicken in Roman Britain laid an egg 1,700 years ago. Uneventful and mundane as it may seem, @Smithsonianmag@flipboard published an article about it this week. Why? The egg still contains liquid inside, making it the only known egg of its kind. https://flip.it/Q2gHJS
#Science #Chicken #History #Smithsonian

So apparently the term "patch" in software development comes from punch cards.

"Small corrections to the programmed sequence could be done by patching over portions of the paper tape and re-punching the holes in that section."

https://chsi.harvard.edu/harvard-ibm-mark-1-language

#til #computers #development #language #history

📜 The Land Before Linux: Let's talk about the Unix desktops
— The Register

https://www.theregister.com/2024/01/27/opinion_column/

#Unix #History #Retrocomputing #ComputingHistory #UXUI

DNA from a type of "chewing gum" used by teenagers in Sweden 10,000 years ago is shedding new light on the Stone Age diet and oral health, researchers said.

CBS News reports that "paleontologists at Stockholm University were able to determine, again from the DNA found in the gum, that the teenagers' Stone Age diet included deer, trout and hazelnuts."

https://flip.it/l.JXy9

#Archaeology #Paleontology #DNA #History #Science

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OG Macintosh team will gather today at the Computer History Museum to talk about the Mac at 40.

All star cast:

Bill Atkinson, Steve Capps, Andy Cunningham, Andy Hertzfeld, Bruce Horn, Susan Kare, Dan’l Lewin, Mike Murray, Chris Espinosa, Guy Kawasaki, Steven Levy, and David Pogue.

It'll be live on-line, register for a free virtual ticket here, scroll to the bottom of the page (pass it along)...

https://computerhistory.org/events/insanely-great
#Apple #Macintosh #History

A cluster of lost cities in Ecuadorian Amazon that lasted 1,000 years has been mapped.

AP reports: https://flip.it/t-04Wa

#Archaeology #Ancient #History #Ecuador #Amazon

We hear a lot about famous men like Einstein & Darwin.

But there are so many incredible stories of other pioneering trailblazers who have made significant contributions in #science, math, engineering & more, yet haven’t been credited, acknowledged or celebrated.

And when we don’t see ourselves in the #history of STEAM, we may not recognize we are all capable of great achievements too.

That’s why I share the stories you see at #HistoryRemix

Nurse Gail Macrae reveals stunning facts about the COVID vax and protocols
https://rumble.com/v4482jt-nurse-gail-macrae-reveals-stunning-facts-about-the-covid-vax-and-protocols.html
#news #covid #vaccine #vax #shot #jab #health #publichealth #crime #hospitals #protocol #murder #medicine #doctors #oath #nurse #politics #culture #history #pandemic #genocide #cdc

It finally happened! After 34 years, someone finally beat #Tetris,

#History was made.

The video is a pretty surprising recount of the progress that led to this moment in #gaming that was previously though to be unachievable

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GuJ5UuknsHU

“Why must we wait until we have irreparable damage to do something?”

#BestOf2023: Activists have spent decades fighting for the health of this iconic #Texas river, against the massive chemical company that dominates it. From Drifting Toward Disaster, our series on the state's waterways ...
https://www.texasobserver.org/dow-brazos-river-pollution-nurdles?utm_campaign=mastodon

#news #water #rivers #environment #ClimateChange #pollution #history #activism #politics #USpol

#retrotechtacular #1960s #documentary #history #retrocomputing #retrotechtactular #hackaday
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#meme #culture #politics #nazi #jews #wwii #ww2 #holocaust #world #history

@ahm7d25
Embrace Islam so that you may remain safe. And if you refuse to accept Islam, you will be responsible for the sins of the Magi.

-Letter to Khosrau II inviting him to convert:
2/2
#iran
#history
#Islam #Deen #Palestine #Gaza #Genocide

@palestine @TruthSandwich

#meme #quotes #culture #politics #world #philosophy #elite #slavery #world #history #freedom #government #tyranny

#covid #vaccine #vax#shot #jab #culture #history #cowards #ww2 #germany #hitler #mask #masks #npc #pandemic #meme

One of the most enduring mysteries within archaeology revolves around the identity of Punt, an otherworldly “land of plenty” revered by the ancient Egyptians.

@arstechnica says researchers have some new clues, including a mummified baboon: https://flip.it/vYhUcp

#Egypt #Archaeology #History

Medieval window in Zaragoza

#Fensterfreitag #WindowFriday #spain #history #architecture #photography #travel #photo