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Sister Rosetta Tharpe died #OTD in 1973.

"She was there before Elvis, Little Richard and Johnny Cash swiveled their hips and strummed their guitars. It was Tharpe, the godmother of rock 'n' roll, who turned this burgeoning musical style into an international sensation."

https://youtube.com/watch?v=Y9a49oFalZE

https://www.npr.org/2017/08/24/544226085/forebears-sister-rosetta-tharpe-the-godmother-of-rock-n-roll

#OnThisDay #music #history #MusicHistory #WomenInMusic #BlackWomen #BlackHistory #RockNRoll

What now?

"[The industrialist Henry Ford] believed that Jews invented jazz as a plot to corrupt society. [...] As a result, he used his wealth to promote square dancing, through books and square dancing events. Ford also promoted square dance classes in public school, which were present in half of all American schools in 1928 as part of the standard physical education curriculum."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_Western_square_dance#History_of_modern_western_square_dance

via https://noc.social/@todayilearned/113273481758370176

#TIL #history #antisemitism #SquareDancing #HenryFord

The World Wide Web Consortium @w3c@w3c.social was founded 30 years ago.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0TfUBuIZkmQ

https://www.w3.org/about/history/

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

video via @caribou@w3c.social

#W3C #OnThisDay #OTD #history #technology #internet #InternetHistory #TheWeb

Code with poetry, poetry with code.

https://codelit.com

#indieweb #poetry #code

"The mid-90s was a race to get the world online. Every month, magazines such as PC Pro carried CDs from faceless [Internet Service Provider]s desperate to bag sign-ups, but there was one ISP that was radically different from the rest, spearheaded by a man who was used to shifting millions of CDs of his own."

https://www.techradar.com/pro/cyberspace-oddity-the-story-of-bowienet

via https://mastodon.well.com/@ianb/113221358126771105

#internet #TheWeb #InternetHistory #history #DavidBowie

The first aerial circumnavigation of the world was completed 100 years ago.

"The 175-day journey from April to September covered over 26,345 miles (42,398 km)."

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

"With no parachutes, no life preservers, no rafts and no radios, the four planes guided by eight U.S. Army Air Service members — the World Fliers — set off to change the future of aviation."

https://www.seattletimes.com/life/outdoors/the-first-aerial-circumnavigation-of-the-world-launched-in-seattle-in-1924/

#OnThisDay #OTD #history #aviation

A helpful resource if you ever find yourself expelled from heaven and need to give a speech to awaken your legions in hell.

https://archive.org/details/systemofelocutio00com/page/184/mode/2up

via https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/speech-of-satan-to-his-legions-with-gestures/

#speech #ASystemOfElocution #PracticalElocution
#history #books #bookstodon

On 26 September 1983, Stanislav Petrov, an engineer of the Soviet Air Defence Forces, prevented an all out nuclear war.

"First, it was just one missile, but then another, and another, until the system reported that a total of five Minuteman ICBMs had been launched."

(Article from 2018) https://www.vox.com/2018/9/26/17905796/nuclear-war-1983-stanislav-petrov-soviet-union

Via @wikipediaOTD@botsin.space

#OnThisDay #otd #history #StanislavPetrov #ColdWar

118 years ago, on September 25, 1906, the Spanish inventor Leonardo Torres Quevedo successfully demonstrated telekino, the first remote control, using it to remotely control a boat.

https://artsandculture.google.com/story/telekino-the-first-remote-control-museo-torres-quevedo/GQWBy6_ArC-_Ig?hl=en

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonardo_Torres_Quevedo#Radio_control:_the_Telekino

#OnThisDay #OTD #inventions #history #technology #telekino

Missed this yesterday!

"Ceefax was the world's first teletext service, going live on 23 September 1974. In a pre-internet world, the revolutionary system allowed people to check the latest BBC news and sport updates at the touch of a few buttons."

https://www.bbc.com/articles/cvg360rr91zo

#OTD #OnThisDay #history #technology #teletext #ceefax

#OnThisDay in 1519, the Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan sailed with about 270 men on his expedition to the East Indies, which achieved the first circumnavigation of Earth in history.

For more fun facts like this, follow @wikipediaOTD@botsin.space!

#OTD #history

19-Sep-82 11:44 Scott E Fahlman :-)
From: Scott E Fahlman

I propose that the following character sequence for joke markers:

:-)

Read it sideways. Actually, it is probably more economical to mark things that are NOT jokes, given current trends. For this, use:

:-(

https://www.wired.com/2011/09/0919fahlman-proposes-emoticons/

#internet #history #OnThisDay #emoticons #emoji #smiley