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On this day in 1943, the civil rights activist Rosa Parks rejected a bus driver's order to vacate a seat reserved in the "white" section of the bus. in c/history@fedia.io
"Virtually the second we opened, we had three lines deep around the block. [...] If you wanted to collect your emails, we were the only place in town." in c/history@fedia.io
[–] stefan@stefanbohacek.online 1 points 8 months ago

Fun fact, I actually had a summer job at an internet cafe when I was 18/19. Often working night shifts. Kind of a fun job!

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"In the Middle Ages, the worst words had been about what was holy; by the 18th century they were about bodily functions. The 16th century was a period when what was considered obscene was in flux." (stefanbohacek.online)
 

"In the Middle Ages, the worst words had been about what was holy; by the 18th century they were about bodily functions. The 16th century was a period when what was considered obscene was in flux."

https://www.historytoday.com/archive/explicit-content

#language #cursing #history

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#OnThisDay in 1974, Lucy, a skeleton of an early human species, named after a song by the Beatles, was discovered in Ethiopia. (stefanbohacek.online)
 

#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 proved that our early human relatives habitually walked on two legs."

https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/australopithecus-afarensis-lucy-species.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucy_(Australopithecus)

#lucy #evolution #science #humans #history #OTD

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"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 Headroom mask (fedia.io)
 

"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 Headroom mask and costume to thousands of home viewers."

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

#MaxHeadroom #PirateRadio #history #OnThisDay

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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 voting (stefanbohacek.online)
 

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 voting rights for women".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Friday_(1910)

(CW: Description of police violence against women.)

#OTD #OnThisDay #history #feminism #WomensRights #PoliceViolence

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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. (stefanbohacek.online)
 

#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 not their president is a crook. Well, I'm not a crook. I've earned everything I've got."

https://youtube.com/watch?v=sh163n1lJ4M

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

#OTD #history #president #watergate #RichardNixon

Happy birthday, ARPANET! in c/history@fedia.io
[–] stefan@stefanbohacek.online 1 points 9 months ago

The actual first message that was sent that day was just "LO", first two letters of the word "LOGIN", when the system crashed.

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20241028-the-failure-that-started-the-internet

#arpanet #internet #history #OTD #OnThisDay #technology

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"Welcome to the nettime mailing list!" (stefanbohacek.online)
 

"Welcome to the nettime mailing list!"

https://nettime.org/Lists-Archives/nettime-l-9510/msg00000.html

"[The internet mailing list Nettime, created in 1995, 29 years ago] has been widely recognized for its seminal role stimulating and disseminating ideas about Netzkritik or Net Critique, net.art, and tactical media and pioneered practices such as "collaborative filtering"."

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

#OTD #OnThisDay #internet #TheWeb #history #InternetHistory #MailingList #NetArt #nettime

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"The War of the Worlds", directed and narrated by Orson Welles, was performed and broadcast live 86 yeas ago #OnThisDay. (stefanbohacek.online)
 

"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 listening audience that a Martian invasion was taking place, though the scale of panic is disputed, as the program had relatively few listeners."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_War_of_the_Worlds_(1938_radio_drama)

#OTD #history #radio #halloween #scifi #aliens #TheWarOfTheWorlds

Happy birthday, ARPANET! in c/history@fedia.io
[–] stefan@stefanbohacek.online 3 points 9 months ago

@NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world There you go!

Happy birthday, ARPANET! in c/history@fedia.io
[–] stefan@stefanbohacek.online 8 points 9 months ago (3 children)

@NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world Ahh, it's not all bad though. Look at us, talking and connecting!

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Happy birthday, ARPANET! (fedia.io)
 

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."

https://ethw.org/Milestones:Birthplace_of_the_Internet,_1969

#arpanet #internet #history #OTD #OnThisDay #technology

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Not many people can say that the country they were born in no longer exists. (stefanbohacek.online)
 

Not many people can say that the country they were born in no longer exists.

"The First Czechoslovak Republic emerged from the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian Empire in October 1918."

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

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

#czechoslovakia #slovakia #CzechRepublic #czechia #history #OnThisDay #OTD

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Not many people can say that the country they were born in no longer exist. (stefanbohacek.online)
 

Not many people can say that the country they were born in no longer exist.

"The First Czechoslovak Republic emerged from the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian Empire in October 1918."

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

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

#czechoslovakia #slovakia #CzechRepublic #czechia #history #OnThisDay #OTD

The internet's "original sin" was committed 30 years ago. in c/history@fedia.io
[–] stefan@stefanbohacek.online 1 points 9 months ago

@Bwaz@lemmy.world Interesting thought for sure!

The internet's "original sin" was committed 30 years ago. in c/history@fedia.io
[–] stefan@stefanbohacek.online 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

@Mikal@sfba.social Very relevant! And really makes you appreciate the fediverse!

The internet's "original sin" was committed 30 years ago. in c/history@fedia.io
[–] stefan@stefanbohacek.online 10 points 9 months ago (3 children)

"Over the course of five years, we tried dozens of revenue models [...] We’d run as a subscription service! Take a share of revenue [...] bundle a magazine with textbook publishers! Sell T-shirts and other branded merch!

[...]

At the end of the day, the business model that got us funded was advertising."

https://web.archive.org/web/20140830021729/https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/08/advertising-is-the-internets-original-sin/376041

#FirstBannerAd #ads #history #technology #internet #TheWeb #InternetHistory

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The internet's "original sin" was committed 30 years ago. (stefanbohacek.online)
 

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 "Have you ever clicked your mouse right here? You will.""

https://www.wired.com/2010/10/1027hotwired-banner-ads/

https://web.archive.org/web/20140830021729/https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/08/advertising-is-the-internets-original-sin/376041

#OTD #OnThisDay #FirstBannerAd #ads #history #technology #internet #TheWeb #InternetHistory

Wishing @internetarchive happy 23rd anniversary of the public launch of Wayback Machine! And lots of support during the ongoing wave of attacks, both on their server, and their mission. in c/history@fedia.io
[–] stefan@stefanbohacek.online 1 points 9 months ago

Hmm, is this the oldest archived page? (According to the Wikipedia article.)

https://web.archive.org/web/19961113160346/http://www.pepsico.com/

Anyway.

The https://archive.org/donate/ currently redirects to their PayPal, as the servers seem to be down again.

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Wishing @internetarchive happy 23rd anniversary of the public launch of Wayback Machine! And lots of support during the ongoing wave of attacks, both on their server, and their mission. (stefanbohacek.online)
 

Wishing @internetarchive@mastodon.archive.org happy 23rd anniversary of the public launch of Wayback Machine! And lots of support during the ongoing wave of attacks, both on their server, and their mission.

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

#OnThisDay #OTD #history #internet #TheWeb #InternetArchive #WaybackMachine

The Black Panther Party was founded #OnThisDay in 1966. in c/history@fedia.io
[–] stefan@stefanbohacek.online 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

@recursive_recursion@lemmy.ca Yes, thank you for sharing!

The Black Panther Party was founded #OnThisDay in 1966. in c/history@fedia.io
[–] stefan@stefanbohacek.online 2 points 9 months ago (3 children)

@recursive_recursion@lemmy.ca Okay, I did not expect that.

"Women are supposed to be very calm generally: but women feel just as men feel … it is narrow-minded in their more privileged fellow-creatures to say that they ought to confine themselves to making in c/history@fedia.io
[–] stefan@stefanbohacek.online 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

I would suggest blocking accounts that do that, if that's an option for you, it's not really a fault of the people whose post are being reposted to where you can see them.

Also, I am still puzzled by the original response suggesting that a quote from a book is a "click bait headline". Definitely not intended that way.

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