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World Wide Web
"CERN, a European center for particle physics near Geneva, Switzerland, has developed an intriguing new tool for managing the cornucopia of information linked to the Internet. The World-Wide Web (W3), a global hypertext system, provides links between a phrase in one document and related information elsewhere... Those on the Internet can try out W3 for themselves. Telnet to: info.cern.ch."
history  1990s  web 
december 2010 by mottram
Panic - Extras - The True Story of Audion
The Transmit 4 release reminded me of Audion...
apple  history  osx  mac  panic 
april 2010 by mottram
Google - 2001
"In honor of our 10th birthday, we've brought back our oldest available index. Take a look back at Google in January 2001." It's actually sort of spooky.
google  history  web 
october 2008 by mottram
PGP, IBM help Bletchley Park raise funds | News - Security - CNET News
"A campaign will be launched on Tuesday to ask U.S. tech companies to help save Bletchley Park, whose wartime work helped lay the foundations of modern computing and crytography. "
bletchley  history 
september 2008 by mottram
Bletchley Park faces bleak future - at ZDNet.co.uk
This is disgraceful - I can't believe Bletchley Park doesn't qualify for Lottery or state funding. It's where WWII was won, for goodness' sake (well, kind of).
wwii  bletchley  turing  cryptography  history  uk 
may 2008 by mottram
The Medical Messiahs
"The 1966 edition of this book described the development of patent medicines in America from the enactment in 1906 of the Pure Food and Drugs Act through the mid-1960s."
medicine  science  quacks  history 
march 2008 by mottram
Making Sense of Marcel Duchamp
A sort of beginner's guide, nicely presented on a timeline.
duchamp  art  history 
august 2007 by mottram
Sculley's Dream: The Story Behind the Newton
According to this, the Newton's handwriting recognition software was handed to them by an anonymous Russian. WTF?
newton  apple  history 
april 2007 by mottram
Blast from the Past: Apple Ships OS 8 - The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)
I remember being totally blown away by OS 8 when it was installed in the University newspaper office.
apple  os8  os  mac  history 
april 2007 by mottram
artforum.com / Modernism
"IMAGINE AN ART EXHIBITION called "Modernism" focusing on the years 1914 to 1939. Sounds unlikely, doesn't it?"
modernism  art  history 
september 2006 by mottram
Glaswegians
"This is the online edition of the Glaswegians Photo Archive. You will find a selection of images from 30,000 photographs taken between 1989 and 1992." - amazing.
glasgow  photography  history  culture 
july 2006 by mottram
Camp Records
"Almost nothing is known about the mysterious 60's record label Camp Records. They released an album and 10 45 rpm records of gay parody songs, most done with effeminate voices. I believe they were issued in the early 60's, as they all appeared in an ad i
queer  gay  history  culture 
february 2006 by mottram
Brownlow's and Mollo's Nazi Britain | MetaFilter
Links on 'How It Happened Here', a film imagining a Nazi occupation of the UK.
nazi  history  film  whatif  cinema 
february 2006 by mottram
3quarksdaily: I have a dream
The full text of Dr. Martin Luther King's 'I have a dream' speech, delivered on August 28th, 1963.
history  text  speeches  rhetoric  mlk  1960s 
january 2006 by mottram
The Thirteenth Tribe
Arthur Koestler's discredited theory of Ashkenazim accestry.
genetics  history  ashkenazim  jews  koestler 
january 2006 by mottram
Clean Slate » The Victorian Internet
They had undersea telegraph cables running from Australia to the UK via India. Bloody hell.
internet  history  telegraph  victorian  engineering 
january 2006 by mottram
tinfoil.com - Early Recorded Sounds and Wax Cylinders
"Dedicated to the preservation of early recorded sounds"
music  history  audio  media  archive  recording  sound 
january 2006 by mottram
New York Daily News - Big Town - Big Town Songbook: Make 'em sing
"Album covers had to be invented. This was a task that largely fell to a Brooklyn kid named Alex Steinweiss."
music  art  design  history 
november 2005 by mottram
browseback: Visual Web History You Can Search
Browse your browsing history through a pretty visualisation thingy. Nice, but probably not worth the money.
web  history  browser  osx 
november 2005 by mottram
village voice > specials > Voice 50th Anniversary by John Wilcock
"The camera makes the movie: whatever happens, planned or not, is the film."
vintage  past  history  film  making  warhol  art  nyc  1960s  villagevoice  journalism 
october 2005 by mottram
The National Archives | Research, education & online exhibitions | Exhibitions | Public Information Films
"For the first time on The National Archives' website you can view complete public information films from the 20th Century."
movies  history  education  library  * 
october 2005 by mottram
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