<p>Martian Memories</p><p>Special-Effects Spirit Silhouetted on "Jibsheet"</p><p>Created using a photorealistic model of the rover and a false-color mosaic captured at sunset by its panoramic camera on May 19, 2005 (Sol 489). Credit: NASA/JPL-Solar System Visualization Team</p><p>📷 <a href="https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/images/pia03232-special-effects-spirit-silhouetted-on-jibsheet/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.jpl.nasa.gov/images/pia03232-special-effects-spirit-silhouetted-on-jibsheet/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.jpl.nasa.gov/images/pia032</span><span class="invisible">32-special-effects-spirit-silhouetted-on-jibsheet/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/mars/" rel="tag">#Mars</a> <a href="/tags/spirit/" rel="tag">#Spirit</a> <a href="/tags/sol489/" rel="tag">#Sol489</a> <a href="/tags/jibsheet/" rel="tag">#Jibsheet</a> <a href="/tags/sunset/" rel="tag">#sunset</a> <a href="/tags/gusevcrater/" rel="tag">#GusevCrater</a> <a href="/tags/gusev/" rel="tag">#Gusev</a> <a href="/tags/crater/" rel="tag">#crater</a> <a href="/tags/rover/" rel="tag">#rover</a> <a href="/tags/spiritrover/" rel="tag">#SpiritRover</a> <a href="/tags/martian/" rel="tag">#Martian</a> <a href="/tags/solarsystem/" rel="tag">#solarsystem</a> <a href="/tags/memories/" rel="tag">#memories</a> <a href="/tags/space/" rel="tag">#space</a> <a href="/tags/science/" rel="tag">#science</a> <a href="/tags/history/" rel="tag">#history</a> <a href="/tags/stem/" rel="tag">#STEM</a> <a href="/tags/astrodon/" rel="tag">#astrodon</a> <a href="/tags/geology/" rel="tag">#geology</a> <a href="/tags/specialfx/" rel="tag">#SpecialFX</a> <a href="/tags/fx/" rel="tag">#FX</a> <a href="/tags/visualization/" rel="tag">#visualization</a> <a href="/tags/nasa/" rel="tag">#NASA</a> <a href="/tags/jpl/" rel="tag">#JPL</a></p>
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<p>Texas Officials Say They Didn’t See the Flood Coming. Oral Histories Show Residents Have Long Warned of Risks.<br>—</p><p>After a tragedy, records from local archives can help us understand how a community understands itself. Here’s some of what we learned following the devastating July 4 flooding in Texas. <br><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/texas-floods-oral-histories?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/texas-floods-oral-histories?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/tex</span><span class="invisible">as-floods-oral-histories?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/texas/" rel="tag">#Texas</a> <a href="/tags/floods/" rel="tag">#Floods</a> <a href="/tags/texasfloods/" rel="tag">#TexasFloods</a> <a href="/tags/history/" rel="tag">#History</a> <a href="/tags/community/" rel="tag">#Community</a></p>
<p>On this day in 1983, the ARPANET network officially switched to using the TCP/IP protocol, effectively creating the Internet.</p><p>"January 1, 1983 is considered the official birthday of the Internet. Prior to this, the various computer networks did not have a standard way to communicate with each other."</p><p><a href="https://www.usg.edu/galileo/skills/unit07/internet07_02.phtml" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.usg.edu/galileo/skills/unit07/internet07_02.phtml"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.usg.edu/galileo/skills/uni</span><span class="invisible">t07/internet07_02.phtml</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/internet/" rel="tag">#internet</a> <a href="/tags/technology/" rel="tag">#technology</a> <a href="/tags/history/" rel="tag">#history</a> <a href="/tags/onthisday/" rel="tag">#OnThisDay</a> <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a></p>
<p>🔴 📰 🎥 Paleography and the Book Lecture “Where Did Newspaper Typeface Come From?”</p><p>“UChicago visiting scholar David Ganz discussed how influential scripts such as Caroline minuscule and Italian Humanistic served as models for typefaces like Times New Roman.”</p><p><a href="/tags/video/" rel="tag">#Video</a> length: one hour and twenty one minutes.</p><p>🔗 <a href="https://youtu.be/hnTKDv0vdz0" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>youtu.be/hnTKDv0vdz0</a></p><p><a href="/tags/lecture/" rel="tag">#Lecture</a> <a href="/tags/paleography/" rel="tag">#Paleography</a> <a href="/tags/book/" rel="tag">#Book</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#Books</a> <a href="/tags/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#Bookstodon</a> <a href="/tags/script/" rel="tag">#Script</a> <a href="/tags/history/" rel="tag">#History</a> <a href="/tags/histodon/" rel="tag">#Histodon</a> <a href="/tags/histodons/" rel="tag">#Histodons</a> <a href="/tags/typeface/" rel="tag">#Typeface</a> <a href="/tags/fonts/" rel="tag">#Fonts</a> <a href="/tags/typography/" rel="tag">#Typography</a> <a href="/tags/newspaper/" rel="tag">#Newspaper</a> <a href="/tags/timesnewroman/" rel="tag">#TimesNewRoman</a> @bookstodon @histodon @histodons</p>
<p>banned bands in the Soviet Union 1985</p><p><a href="/tags/punk/" rel="tag">#punk</a> <a href="/tags/punks/" rel="tag">#punks</a> <a href="/tags/punkrock/" rel="tag">#punkrock</a> <a href="/tags/oldschoolpunk/" rel="tag">#oldschoolpunk</a> <a href="/tags/punklegends/" rel="tag">#punklegends</a> <a href="/tags/postpunk/" rel="tag">#postpunk</a> <a href="/tags/history/" rel="tag">#history</a> <a href="/tags/punkrockhistory/" rel="tag">#punkrockhistory</a></p>
<p>The Wiki Loves Monuments 2024 competition is now open!</p><p>Join the world's largest photography competition by uploading your photos of listed buildings and scheduled monuments to the wiki projects.</p><p>Find out how to enter the UK competition: <a href="https://bit.ly/3B12KWL" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>bit.ly/3B12KWL</a></p><p><a href="/tags/architecture/" rel="tag">#architecture</a> <a href="/tags/archeology/" rel="tag">#archeology</a> <a href="/tags/castles/" rel="tag">#castles</a> <a href="/tags/heritage/" rel="tag">#heritage</a> <a href="/tags/history/" rel="tag">#history</a> <a href="/tags/wikilovesmonuments/" rel="tag">#wikilovesmonuments</a></p>
<p>The Entire History of the World—Really, All of It—Distilled Into a Single Gorgeous Chart</p><p>In 1931, John B. Sparks created the Histomap, condensing more than 4,000 years of world history into a vibrant infographic.</p><p>By Rebecca Onion (from the archives)</p><p><a href="https://slate.com/human-interest/2013/08/the-1931-histomap-the-entire-history-of-the-world-distilled-into-a-single-map-chart.html" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="slate.com/human-interest/2013/08/the-1931-histomap-the-entire-history-of-the-world-distilled-into-a-single-map-chart.html"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">slate.com/human-interest/2013/</span><span class="invisible">08/the-1931-histomap-the-entire-history-of-the-world-distilled-into-a-single-map-chart.html</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/history/" rel="tag">#history</a> <a href="/tags/maps/" rel="tag">#maps</a></p>
<p>On this day in 1927, the president of the AT&T called the secretary of the General Post Office of Great Britain to test the first commercial telephone line across the Atlantic Ocean.</p><p>"Today is the result of many years of research and experimentation. [...] No one can foresee the ultimate significance of this latest achievement of science and organization."</p><p><a href="https://www.history.com/speeches/first-transatlantic-telephone-call" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.history.com/speeches/first-transatlantic-telephone-call"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.history.com/speeches/first</span><span class="invisible">-transatlantic-telephone-call</span></a></p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_telephone" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_telephone"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_</span><span class="invisible">of_the_telephone</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/onthisday/" rel="tag">#OnThisDay</a> <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> <a href="/tags/history/" rel="tag">#history</a> <a href="/tags/technology/" rel="tag">#technology</a> <a href="/tags/phone/" rel="tag">#phone</a></p>
<p>Ronnie Dugger, founding editor and longtime publisher of the Texas Observer and for many years the crusading conscience of the progressive movement in Texas and beyond, died of complications of dementia at a hospice center in Austin on May 27. He was 95. <a href="https://www.texasobserver.org/ronnie-dugger-1930-2025/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.texasobserver.org/ronnie-dugger-1930-2025/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.texasobserver.org/ronnie-d</span><span class="invisible">ugger-1930-2025/</span></a> </p><p><a href="/tags/politics/" rel="tag">#politics</a> <a href="/tags/uspol/" rel="tag">#USpol</a> <a href="/tags/journalism/" rel="tag">#journalism</a> <a href="/tags/rip/" rel="tag">#RIP</a> <a href="/tags/texas/" rel="tag">#Texas</a> <a href="/tags/media/" rel="tag">#media</a> <a href="/tags/history/" rel="tag">#history</a> <a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#news</a></p>
<p>The account I just boosted, Athena Productions, has done lots of amusing gonzo-like brief videos about history. They hadn't posted in three years before today, but it looks like they're back so you might want to give them a follow:</p><p>➡️ <span class="h-card"><a href="[{'type': 'Link', 'href': 'https://tilvids.com/a/athenaproductions/video-channels', 'mediaType': 'text/html'}, {'type': 'Link', 'href': 'https://tilvids.com/a/athenaproductions', 'mediaType': 'text/html'}, {'type': 'Link', 'href': 'https://tilvids.com/accounts/athenaproductions', 'mediaType': 'text/html'}]" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>athenaproductions</span></a></span> </p><p>(NOTE: There may be swearing!)</p><p>They've already posted over 80 videos so far. If these haven't federated to your server, you can browse them all at:</p><p>➡️ <a href="https://tilvids.com/a/athenaproductions/videos" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="tilvids.com/a/athenaproductions/videos"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">tilvids.com/a/athenaproduction</span><span class="invisible">s/videos</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/featuredpeertube/" rel="tag">#FeaturedPeerTube</a> <a href="/tags/history/" rel="tag">#History</a> <a href="/tags/ancienthistory/" rel="tag">#AncientHistory</a> <a href="/tags/peertube/" rel="tag">#PeerTube</a> <a href="/tags/peertubers/" rel="tag">#PeerTubers</a></p>
<p><a href="/tags/onthisday/" rel="tag">#OnThisDay</a>, 16 Jan 1970, Dilma Rousseff, a member of the Brazilian guerrilla movement against the military government, was arrested. She was labelled the “Joan of Arc” of the movement. </p><p>In 2011 she became the first woman to be president of Brazil.</p><p><a href="/tags/womeninhistory/" rel="tag">#WomenInHistory</a> <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> <a href="/tags/history/" rel="tag">#History</a> <a href="/tags/womenshistory/" rel="tag">#WomensHistory</a> <a href="/tags/histodons/" rel="tag">#Histodons</a></p>
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<p>The Soundtrack of Online Piracy by Patch<a href="/tags/piracy/" rel="tag">#piracy</a> <a href="/tags/music/" rel="tag">#music</a> <a href="/tags/video/" rel="tag">#video</a> <a href="/tags/history/" rel="tag">#history</a> <a href="/tags/technology/" rel="tag">#technology</a> <a href="/tags/chiptune/" rel="tag">#chiptune</a> <a href="/tags/keygen/" rel="tag">#keygen</a> <a href="/tags/edm/" rel="tag">#edm</a> <a href="/tags/electronic/" rel="tag">#electronic</a> <a href="/tags/loops/" rel="tag">#loops</a> <a href="/tags/invisiblehand/" rel="tag">#invisiblehand</a> <a href="/tags/economics/" rel="tag">#economics</a> <a href="/tags/software/" rel="tag">#software</a> <a href="/tags/gaming/" rel="tag">#gaming</a> <a href="/tags/eattherich/" rel="tag">#eattherich</a> <a href="/tags/fyp/" rel="tag">#fyp</a> <a href="/tags/documentary/" rel="tag">#documentary</a></p>
<p>"The level of creativity and versatility on display on your average Geocities site is hard to understate. Most were a cross between amateur experiments and love letters to this or that piece of pop culture. They were plastered with recipes, vacation photos, esoteric images, and tidbits of slash fiction."</p><p><a href="https://thehistoryoftheweb.com/exploring-the-web-in-1995/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="thehistoryoftheweb.com/exploring-the-web-in-1995/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">thehistoryoftheweb.com/explori</span><span class="invisible">ng-the-web-in-1995/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/internet/" rel="tag">#internet</a> <a href="/tags/theweb/" rel="tag">#TheWeb</a> <a href="/tags/geocities/" rel="tag">#geocities</a> <a href="/tags/technology/" rel="tag">#technology</a> <a href="/tags/history/" rel="tag">#history</a></p>
<p>Containing 10,000+ items, the Public Domain Image Archive is a vast trove of illustrations, prints, scans, and more, all downloadable and free for use.</p><p><a href="https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2025/01/public-domain-image-archive/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.thisiscolossal.com/2025/01/public-domain-image-archive/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.thisiscolossal.com/2025/01</span><span class="invisible">/public-domain-image-archive/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/publicdomain/" rel="tag">#publicdomain</a> <a href="/tags/archive/" rel="tag">#archive</a> <a href="/tags/history/" rel="tag">#history</a> <a href="/tags/illustration/" rel="tag">#illustration</a> <a href="/tags/nature/" rel="tag">#nature</a></p>
<p>Dalton Mills, Keighley. A beautiful abandoned Victorian textile mill in West Yorkshire. I had the privilege of exploring and documenting this historical place a few years ago. Sadly, a huge fire destroyed it in 2022.</p><p><a href="/tags/yorkshire/" rel="tag">#Yorkshire</a> <a href="/tags/history/" rel="tag">#History</a> <a href="/tags/heritage/" rel="tag">#Heritage</a> <a href="/tags/abandoned/" rel="tag">#Abandoned</a> <a href="/tags/photography/" rel="tag">#Photography</a> <a href="/tags/explore/" rel="tag">#Explore</a> <a href="/tags/mill/" rel="tag">#Mill</a> <a href="/tags/industry/" rel="tag">#Industry</a> <a href="/tags/decay/" rel="tag">#Decay</a></p>
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<p>If you sometimes want to escape from current affairs and the daily ratrace, follow <span class="h-card"><a href="https://pix.joenepraat.nl/joene" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>joene</span></a></span>. Here I post pictures from various travels I made through the years. No those are not holiday pictures, but from interesting politically and socially driven travels. No selfies and if necessary with blurred faces. </p><p>The first two collections I will post are from May 2016 in the Northern-Greek Idomeni refugee camp, nearby Polykastro and smaller refugee camps along the A1/E75 highway. The first collection about Idomeni can be found here: <a href="https://pix.joenepraat.nl/c/834486164830621697" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="pix.joenepraat.nl/c/834486164830621697"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">pix.joenepraat.nl/c/8344861648</span><span class="invisible">30621697</span></a> and the next collection is about Polykastro and smaller refugee camps along the A1/E75.</p><p>I advise you to follow this account, because from now on I'm not going to boost every post from that account with my Mastodon accounts anymore. Next topics will include pictures from Mexico (Veracruz), Moldova (Chișinău), the United States (NYC and DC), and more.</p><p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://pix.joenepraat.nl/joene" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>joene</span></a></span> / <span class="h-card"><a href="https://pix.joenepraat.nl/joene" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>https://pix.joenepraat.nl/joene</span></a></span></p><p><a href="/tags/photos/" rel="tag">#photos</a> <a href="/tags/travels/" rel="tag">#travels</a> <a href="/tags/foreignaffairs/" rel="tag">#foreignAffairs</a> <a href="/tags/humanrights/" rel="tag">#humanRights</a> <a href="/tags/history/" rel="tag">#history</a></p>
<p>"I'm in the process of setting up a WWW server that will blow the socks off your Mosaic viewer!"</p><p><a href="https://cybercultural.com/p/1993-mtv-internet/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="cybercultural.com/p/1993-mtv-internet/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">cybercultural.com/p/1993-mtv-i</span><span class="invisible">nternet/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/internet/" rel="tag">#internet</a> <a href="/tags/theweb/" rel="tag">#TheWeb</a> <a href="/tags/history/" rel="tag">#history</a> <a href="/tags/technology/" rel="tag">#technology</a> <a href="/tags/cyberculture/" rel="tag">#cyberculture</a></p>
<p>To continue the Anarchist Sunday School, I found the Arte documentary *No Gods, No Masters: A History of Anarchism* via Peertube. </p><p>Unfortunately without playlist, so I made one myself:</p><p><a href="https://tube.todon.eu/w/p/g6hSEUo7c3V5cQxPyEuq17" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="tube.todon.eu/w/p/g6hSEUo7c3V5cQxPyEuq17"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">tube.todon.eu/w/p/g6hSEUo7c3V5</span><span class="invisible">cQxPyEuq17</span></a></p><p>I shared this years ago as well, but it now it has five parts, instead of three. The newer parts are about the period after the Second World War. Those are with French audio, but it has multiple subtitles. Enjoy! <img src="https://neodb.social/media/emoji/todon.nl/anarchismred.png" class="emoji" alt=":anarchismred:" title=":anarchismred:"> <img src="https://neodb.social/media/emoji/todon.nl/anarchoheart3.png" class="emoji" alt=":anarchoheart3:" title=":anarchoheart3:"> </p><p><a href="/tags/anarchism/" rel="tag">#anarchism</a> <a href="/tags/history/" rel="tag">#history</a> <a href="/tags/documentary/" rel="tag">#documentary</a></p>
<p>Memory-Holing Jan. 6: What Happens When You Try to Make History Vanish?<br>—</p><p>The Trump administration’s decision to delete a DOJ database of cases against Capitol riot defendants places those who seek to preserve the historical record in direct opposition to their own government.</p><p><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/january-6-erasure-doj-database-trump-history?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/january-6-erasure-doj-database-trump-history?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/jan</span><span class="invisible">uary-6-erasure-doj-database-trump-history?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/jan6/" rel="tag">#Jan6</a> <a href="/tags/history/" rel="tag">#History</a> <a href="/tags/doj/" rel="tag">#DOJ</a> <a href="/tags/government/" rel="tag">#Government</a> <a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#Trump</a></p>
<p>On this day in 1938, BBC Television aired the first science fiction TV program, an adaptation of a section of the Karel Čapek play R.U.R.. This play is also famous for coining the term "robot" from robota, or "forced labor", derived from "rab", meaning "slave".</p><p>Article from 2016: <a href="https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/78-years-ago-today-bbc-aired-first-science-fiction-television-program-180958126/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/78-years-ago-today-bbc-aired-first-science-fiction-television-program-180958126/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-n</span><span class="invisible">ews/78-years-ago-today-bbc-aired-first-science-fiction-television-program-180958126/</span></a></p><p>More about the play: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R.U.R" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R.U.R</a>.</p><p><a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> <a href="/tags/onthisday/" rel="tag">#OnThisDay</a> <a href="/tags/history/" rel="tag">#history</a> <a href="/tags/scifi/" rel="tag">#scifi</a> <a href="/tags/robots/" rel="tag">#robots</a></p>
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<p>"There were very few websites that went beyond text at the start of '94, so to begin with people didn't quite know what to make of [Internet Underground Music Archive]."</p><p><a href="https://cybercultural.com/p/iuma-1994/" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>cybercultural.com/p/iuma-1994/</a></p><p><a href="/tags/music/" rel="tag">#music</a> <a href="/tags/history/" rel="tag">#history</a> <a href="/tags/musichistory/" rel="tag">#MusicHistory</a> <a href="/tags/internet/" rel="tag">#internet</a> <a href="/tags/theweb/" rel="tag">#TheWeb</a> <a href="/tags/internethistory/" rel="tag">#InternetHistory</a> <a href="/tags/internetundergroundmusicarchive/" rel="tag">#InternetUndergroundMusicArchive</a> <a href="/tags/iuma/" rel="tag">#IUMA</a></p>
<p>Prof. Nick Zentner (Geology) at Washington State showing an accurate representation of the ice age floods that shaped a lot of the canyons we see today in NA</p>
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<p><a href="https://www.usluck.com/622462/passengers-aboard-a-boeing-307-of-pan-american-world-airways-1940s/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.usluck.com/622462/passengers-aboard-a-boeing-307-of-pan-american-world-airways-1940s/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.usluck.com/622462/passenge</span><span class="invisible">rs-aboard-a-boeing-307-of-pan-american-world-airways-1940s/</span></a> Passengers aboard a Boeing 307 of Pan American World Airways, 1940s. <a href="/tags/history/" rel="tag">#History</a> <a href="/tags/thewaywewere/" rel="tag">#TheWayWeWere</a></p>
<p>"In 1966 [...] five megabytes of data—a relatively small amount by today's standards—required an astounding 62,500 punched cards."</p><p><a href="https://www.vintag.es/2025/02/5-megabytes-of-computer-data.html" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.vintag.es/2025/02/5-megabytes-of-computer-data.html"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.vintag.es/2025/02/5-megaby</span><span class="invisible">tes-of-computer-data.html</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/technology/" rel="tag">#technology</a> <a href="/tags/history/" rel="tag">#history</a> <a href="/tags/techhistory/" rel="tag">#TechHistory</a> <a href="/tags/vintagetech/" rel="tag">#VintageTech</a> <a href="/tags/retrocomputing/" rel="tag">#RetroComputing</a> <a href="/tags/data/" rel="tag">#data</a> <a href="/tags/punchcards/" rel="tag">#PunchCards</a></p>
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<p>“The simple act of walking through a schoolhouse door that had been barred to me, and all people of my color, by the governor of this state - that simple act represented an end to legal segregation in the American South.”</p><p><a href="/tags/onthisday/" rel="tag">#OnThisDay</a>, 11 June 1963, Vivian Malone defies the Governor of Alabama to become the first Black female student at the University of Alabama.</p><p><a href="/tags/womeninhistory/" rel="tag">#WomenInHistory</a> <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> <a href="/tags/history/" rel="tag">#History</a> <a href="/tags/womenshistory/" rel="tag">#WomensHistory</a> <a href="/tags/americanhistory/" rel="tag">#AmericanHistory</a> <a href="/tags/histodons/" rel="tag">#Histodons</a></p>
