Notices tagged with history, page 6

An example of how digging deeper can change your understanding of a whole story from the past. I had thought that the 414s, hackers busted in 1983, first met in the scouts, in fact they met on a BBS "online" & then joined the scouts together.
#hacking #history

Dennis M. Ritchie home page http://cm.bell-labs.co/who/dmr/ #Unix #History #C

CREATE and DESTROY historical UNIX Systems where you are the SYSTEMS ADMINISTRATOR.

https://unix50.org

Presented by the SDF Computer Museum

#unix #history #retrocomputing #sysadmin #root #hacking

A family stands before a 1,341-year-old Sequoia tree known as "Mark Twain," which was cut down in 1892 in the Pacific Northwest. The tree, towering at 331 feet (100 meters) in height, was brought down by a pair of men who worked for 13 days to saw it.
#history #conservation #climatechange
#shame

U.S. forces sent to Britain in 1943 expected to export racial segregation. When white MPs insisted that a local pub segregate, the owner replied he would. When MPs returned next day, they were met with “Blacks Only” signs & British barmaids telling white soldiers to wait their turn when they assumed they would be served before black soldiers. This set the stage for the epic Battle of Bamber Bridge.

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@blackmastodon@a.gup.pe @BlackMastodon@chirp.social #BlackMastodon #Histodons #History #BlackHistory
#WW2 #UK

amazing that this jew with 1.300 subs gets into my recommendations, telling me exactly what youtube wants an armed, single white man to believe.

Belly laughed that his point is just “americans are suckers! they’re so generous!”, and the idea that’s supposed to make me nod along in proud patriotism

“The Land of the Free #america #patriotism #patriotic #american #History #americanhistory #Shorts”

There's a nice round number: There are now 1000 documents in the Irish Left Archive!

That includes newspapers, magazines, posters, leaflets and pamphlets from hundreds of left organisations in Ireland's history.

https://www.leftarchive.ie/

#Ireland #History #Politics

Physicist Lise Meitner’s brilliance led to the discovery of nuclear fission. But her long time collaborator Otto Hahn, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry without her in 1944, even though she had given the first theoretical explanation.

Albert Einstein called Meitner “our Marie Curie." She also adamantly refused to work on the atomic bomb during WWII. https://whyy.org/articles/lise-meitner-the-forgotten-woman-of-nuclear-physics-who-deserved-a-nobel-prize/ #science #history

X marks the unknown in algebra – but X’s origins are a math mystery.

The Conversation explores "a few different explanations that math enthusiasts have put forward."

https://flip.it/j1x4vM

#Math #Maths #Mathematics #History

AWAITING DESTRUCTION--Old Pacific Electric cars are piled up at a junkyard on Terminal Island, in CA 1956. Parts Terminal Island w/in LA Port and Long Beach Port--used now for parking containers.

In the interwar years and mid-20th C. many US cities made fateful decisions for our climate in abandoning electric street railways for freeways & autos, none more than Los Angeles.

@histodons #history #climate #climatecrisis #environment #carbon #railways #autos #transportation @sociology #sts #tech

Then and now in color.
Minor Threat in 1981 and 2018

#punk #punks #punkrock #punklegends #hardcorepunk #minorthreat #history #punkrockhistory

“For the horrors of the American Negro’s life,” wrote James Baldwin in 1962, “there has been almost no language.” The history is clear. America gave Black Americans nothing. What freedom we have was earned through blood, toil, grit, perseverance, & courage. After the deadliest insurrection in American history, Black-New Yorkers rebuilt their lives, shaped their destinies & contributed to the ongoing freedom struggle.

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@blackmastodon@a.gup.pe @BlackMastodon@chirp.social #BlackMastodon #Histodons #History #NYC

My first smartphone was the Nokia 9210i Communicator. This was also the first phone that had the Opera browser. The phone I used was a prototype of that phone, given to me by Nokia.

The phone had a full keyboard, which was actually pretty good. It had a wealth of useful Psion applications.

I kept using this phone for years. It really was that good.

Before that I had other mobile phones from #Ericsson and #Nokia.

What was your first smartphone?

#Browser #History

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_9210_Communicator

Eight years ago today, I spent the afternoon going to a lot of weddings at Davidson County Courthouse in #MetroNashville, #Tennessee, and then sped downtown to celebrate #MarriageEquality with music and song. Wasn’t #NashvilleInHarmony wonderful? What a glorious day that was! Thanks to heroes #EdieWindsor (#RIP) and Jim #Obergefell. 🙏🙏🏳️🌈🎊#Nashville #LGBTQIA #history #memories #saygay #pride #pridemonth #activism #law #justice #StayVigilant #RememberRoe

ABilly Jones Hennin was born in 1942, in St John's Antigua, and at age 3 he joined a family of 9 other adopted children. He grew up in South Carolina and Virginia with his family and after graduation he served in the US Marine Corps.

In 1968 he graduated from Virginia State University. He was married, had 3 kids, but wound up divorcing his wife when he came out as bisexual. In 1978 ABilly helped launch the National Coalition of Black Gays in Columbia Maryland, it was the first national advocacy organization for African American gay men and lesbians.

1979 ABilly helped mobilize the first March on Washington for lesbian and gay rights. At that same time he helped convene the National Third World LGBTQ conference at Howard University which became the university's Lambda Student Alliance- the first LGBTQ organization at an HBCU.

His work has led him in many directions including leadership roles within the Black LGBTQ movements and a board member of Binet USA.

#Pride #LGBTQIA #History

🏳️🌈 https://thekidshouldseethis.com/post/pride-the-story-of-harvey-milk-and-the-rainbow-flag

“On June 25, 1978, #history was made when a new #flag unfurled in San Francisco. From that moment forward, the flag and its rich, beaming colors of the #rainbow would serve as a symbol of #hope and #Pride for the millions of #LGBTQ individuals across the world.” 🌈📖 This Brightly #Storytime #video is one in a series of #PrideMonth Reads and Banned and Challenged Books playlists that help educate kids about diverse identities to foster a more inclusive world.

#HarveyMilk #GilbertBaker #book #books #picturebook #childrensbooks #readaloud #community #equalrights #civics

#Google just announced that going forward, any account not logged into for two years gets deleted.

This means huge amounts of rare or unique #video is about to disappear from #YouTube as accounts get flagged as inactive, such as when the user dies. Families' #HomeMovies (often posted by an older relative for their family's benefit), historical footage, rare #television clips, etc. What an incalculable loss to human #history and culture!

If there are videos important to you on someone else's video channel, find a way to download them. And if you have rare #media of historical importance, consider leaving it to institutional #archives or lending it to archives for digital preservation.

After witnessing a white doctor refuse to treat a sick, elderly Native American woman who later died, Susan La Flesche Picotte decided to become a physician to help her people. Born in 1865, she grew up on Nebraska’s Omaha reservation.

In 1889, Picotte became the first female Native American to earn a medical degree in the U.S. She raised funding & opened Wathill Hospital in 1913 - the first private hospital on a reservation. https://drsusancenter.org/dr-susan #HistoryRemix #history #science

Trans people were always here

"Using recent breakthroughs in photo editing techniques, Eli colorizes, restores, and digitizes photos from queer and trans history. The following images are originally from 1897-1973."

Great post from creatrixtiara (https://mage.town/@creatrixtiara)!

https://www.metafilter.com/198797/Trans-people-were-always-here

#trans #transgender #history #LGBT #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #photography #PhotoEditing #colorized

#history