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#TIL about the Essex whaling ship, which was attacked and sunk by a sperm whale on this day in 1820. This event inspired Herman Melville to write his 1851 novel, […]
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Published #onthisday 165 years ago, "On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life" by Charles Darwin created the […]
#OnThisDay in 1974, Lucy, a skeleton of an early human species, named after a song by the Beatles, was discovered in Ethiopia.
"When this small-bodied, small-brained hominin was discovered, it […]
"On the night of November 22, 1987, the television signals of two stations in Chicago, Illinois, were hijacked, briefly sending a pirate broadcast of an unidentified person wearing a Max […]
Today marks the 114th anniversary of the 1910 "Black Friday" suffragette demonstration in London, in which "300 women marched to the Houses of Parliament as part of their campaign to secure […]
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Born #onthisday in 1902, Eugene Wigner was a Hungarian-American theoretical physicist who also contributed to mathematical physics. He received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1963 "for his […]
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#OnThisDay in 1973 (51 years ago) Richard Nixon, the 37th president of the United States, and a famous crook, claimed that he was, in fact, not a crook.
"People have got to know whether or […]
2024-10-31 stefan ┃ 2🔗 6#️ ┃ RE: stefan
The actual first message that was sent that day was just "LO", first two letters of the word "LOGIN", when the system crashed.
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"Welcome to the nettime mailing list!"
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"The War of the Worlds", directed and narrated by Orson Welles, was performed and broadcast live 86 yeas ago #OnThisDay.
It is "infamous for inciting a panic by convincing some members of the […]
Happy birthday, ARPANET!
"At 10:30 p.m., 29 October 1969, the first ARPANET message was sent from this UCLA site to the Stanford Research Institute."
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The internet's "original sin" was committed 30 years ago.
"[...] the gaudy banner ad took over the web [...] legend has it that the first HotWired banner ad was from AT&T, prophetically asking […]
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