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How Did I Miss This Tripe?

Solid reaction to FSF rant on iPhone

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[from amaah] The Secret History Of The Revolving Door

The revolving door was designed specifically so that whomever enters the door first is obliged to do all the pushing! This was Theophilus' breakthrough. with his design it would actually be most chivalrous for the man to proceed through the door first.

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[from amaah] It's 70 today, but our favourite pen just keeps rolling along

The Biro ballpoint pen was patented in June 1938. Marketed by Bic, it has achieved ubiquity (100 million sold), convenience trumping the demands of effete penmanship.

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The World Wide Web project [First WWW site]

The WorldWideWeb (W3) is a wide-area hypermedia information retrieval initiative aiming to give universal access to a large universe of documents.

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[from amaah] The Right and Lawful Rood

He's a renaissance man, our Mr Weir. Dilating on the rood.

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Tim Berners-Lee

Tim Berners-Lee's Homepage-A must for every web enthusiast

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Multics

Download Source, view history

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[from amaah] Searching for Highlife in Modern-day Ghana

On why tastes shifted in Ghana and the effect on highlife music. Politics: curfews tend to kill nightlife. Economics: taxes on musical instruments. Technology: the dreaded synthesizer. Social: no nightclub hence church, religion.The rise of hip-hop.

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The World Wide Web project

First web site on the internet circa 1990

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The World Wide Web project

First website on the internet

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Internet Archive: Computer Chronicles

Hosted by Stewart Cheifet, Computer Chronicles was the world's most popular television program on personal technology during the height of the personal computer revolution. It was broadcast for twenty years from 1983 - 2002.

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[from amaah] Fred Spira, 83, Who Made Photo Gadgets Accessible, Dies

Fred Spira, a photo historian and collector of photographic gadgets who is credited with helping standardize modern camera equipment and making it accessible to amateurs. his accessory lenses, close-up attachments and processing machines

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[from amaah] The Glenmutchkin Railway

The following tale appeared in "Blackwood's Magazine" for October, 1845. It was intended by the writer as a sketch of some of the more striking features of the railway mania (then in full progress throughout Great Britain), as exhibited in Glasgow and Edi

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A Little History of the World Wide Web

How the Information Age came to transform our world

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