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<p>Today, let’s remember Richard Hamming, who was born <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> 1915. Hamming received the 1968 <a href="/tags/acmturingaward/" rel="tag">#ACMTuringAward</a> for his work on numerical methods, automatic coding systems, and error-detecting and error-correcting codes. Read Hamming’s bio, here: <a href="https://amturing.acm.org/award_winners/hamming_1000652.cfm" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="amturing.acm.org/award_winners/hamming_1000652.cfm"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">amturing.acm.org/award_winners</span><span class="invisible">/hamming_1000652.cfm</span></a></p>

<p>The Wayback Machine was launched 24 years ago!</p><p>&quot;The Wayback Machine has a pulse, rhythmic and steady as it loops endlessly through the spaces of the web.&quot;</p><p><a href="https://thehistoryoftheweb.com/archiving-the-web/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="thehistoryoftheweb.com/archiving-the-web/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">thehistoryoftheweb.com/archivi</span><span class="invisible">ng-the-web/</span></a><br><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayback_Machine" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayback_Machine"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayback_</span><span class="invisible">Machine</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/internet/" rel="tag">#internet</a> <a href="/tags/theweb/" rel="tag">#TheWeb</a> <a href="/tags/internetarchive/" rel="tag">#InternetArchive</a> <a href="/tags/waybackmachine/" rel="tag">#WaybackMachine</a></p>

<p>66 years ago, on October 26, 1959, Linus mentioned the Great Pumpkin in the Peanuts comic strip for the first time, kicking off an annual Halloween storyline that ran for 40 years and received its very own animated special.</p><p><a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> <a href="/tags/peanuts/" rel="tag">#Peanuts</a> <a href="/tags/charliebrown/" rel="tag">#CharlieBrown</a> <a href="/tags/onthisday/" rel="tag">#OnThisDay</a> <a href="/tags/comic/" rel="tag">#Comic</a> <a href="/tags/comics/" rel="tag">#Comics</a> <a href="/tags/comicstrip/" rel="tag">#ComicStrip</a> <a href="/tags/snoopy/" rel="tag">#Snoopy</a></p>

<p>On this day, 56 years ago:</p><p>&quot;At 10:30 p.m., 29 October 1969, the first ARPANET message was sent from this UCLA site to the Stanford Research Institute.&quot;</p><p><a href="https://ethw.org/Milestones:Birthplace_of_the_Internet,_1969" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="ethw.org/Milestones:Birthplace_of_the_Internet,_1969"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">ethw.org/Milestones:Birthplace</span><span class="invisible">_of_the_Internet,_1969</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/arpanet/" rel="tag">#arpanet</a> <a href="/tags/internet/" rel="tag">#internet</a> <a href="/tags/history/" rel="tag">#history</a> <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> <a href="/tags/onthisday/" rel="tag">#OnThisDay</a> <a href="/tags/technology/" rel="tag">#technology</a></p>

<p>&quot;Nettime 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 &quot;collaborative filtering&quot;.&quot;</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nettime" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nettime</a></p><p>The internet mailing list Nettime was created in 1995, 30 years ago.</p><p><a href="https://nettime.org/Lists-Archives/nettime-l-9510/msg00000.html" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="nettime.org/Lists-Archives/nettime-l-9510/msg00000.html"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">nettime.org/Lists-Archives/net</span><span class="invisible">time-l-9510/msg00000.html</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/internethistory/" rel="tag">#InternetHistory</a> <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> <a href="/tags/onthisday/" rel="tag">#OnThisDay</a> <a href="/tags/mailinglist/" rel="tag">#MailingList</a> <a href="/tags/netart/" rel="tag">#NetArt</a> <a href="/tags/nettime/" rel="tag">#nettime</a></p>

<p>&quot;On 12 November 1990 [Tim Berners-Lee and Robert Cailliau] published a formal proposal outlining principal concepts and defining important terms behind the web. The document described a &quot;hypertext project&quot; called &quot;WorldWideWeb&quot; in which a &quot;web&quot; of &quot;hypertext documents&quot; could be viewed by “browsers”.&quot;</p><p><a href="https://home.cern/science/computing/where-web-was-born" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="home.cern/science/computing/where-web-was-born"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">home.cern/science/computing/wh</span><span class="invisible">ere-web-was-born</span></a></p><p><a href="https://www.w3.org/Proposal.html" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>www.w3.org/Proposal.html</a></p><p><a href="/tags/worldwideweb/" rel="tag">#WorldWideWeb</a> <a href="/tags/hypertextproject/" rel="tag">#HypertextProject</a> <a href="/tags/theweb/" rel="tag">#TheWeb</a> <a href="/tags/internet/" rel="tag">#internet</a> <a href="/tags/techhistory/" rel="tag">#TechHistory</a> <a href="/tags/technology/" rel="tag">#technology</a> <a href="/tags/onthisday/" rel="tag">#OnThisDay</a> <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a></p>

<p>ActivityPub, the protocol that powers much of the fediverse and allows the various fediverse platforms and servers to talk to each other, has become an official W3C standard 8 years ago!</p><p><a href="https://www.w3.org/news/2018/activitypub-is-now-a-w3c-recommendation/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.w3.org/news/2018/activitypub-is-now-a-w3c-recommendation/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.w3.org/news/2018/activityp</span><span class="invisible">ub-is-now-a-w3c-recommendation/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/fediverse/" rel="tag">#fediverse</a> <a href="/tags/activitypub/" rel="tag">#activitypub</a> <a href="/tags/standards/" rel="tag">#standards</a> <a href="/tags/openweb/" rel="tag">#OpenWeb</a> <a href="/tags/w3c/" rel="tag">#W3C</a> <a href="/tags/anniversary/" rel="tag">#anniversary</a> <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> <a href="/tags/onthisday/" rel="tag">#OnThisDay</a></p>

<p><a href="/tags/onthisday/" rel="tag">#OnThisDay</a>, 11 Feb 1989, the Rev Barbara Harris is consecrated, the first woman to become a Bishop in the worldwide Anglican Communion. Due to death threats, she was advised to wear a bulletproof vest at the ceremony: she declined. </p><p>&quot;I certainly don&#x27;t want to be one of the boys. I want to offer my peculiar gifts as a black woman... a sensitivity and an awareness that comes out of more than a passing acquaintance with oppression.&quot;</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/blackhistorymonth/" rel="tag">#BlackHistoryMonth</a> <a href="/tags/histodons/" rel="tag">#Histodons</a></p>

<p>One of the greatest punk rock bands of all time, fractured and irreconcilable 🤬 💔 </p><p>40 years ago today, <br>The Dead Kennedys played their last concert with Jello Biafra at UC Davis&#x27; Freeborn Hall, February 21, 1986</p><p>Phranc, Mojo Nixon, and 7 Seconds were the support acts.</p><p><a href="/tags/punk/" rel="tag">#punk</a> <a href="/tags/punkrock/" rel="tag">#punkrock</a> <a href="/tags/hardcorepunk/" rel="tag">#hardcorepunk</a> <a href="/tags/deadkennedys/" rel="tag">#deadkennedys</a> <a href="/tags/punkrockhistory/" rel="tag">#punkrockhistory</a> <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#otd</a></p>

<p><a href="/tags/art/" rel="tag">#art</a> <a href="/tags/history/" rel="tag">#history</a>: if most of the people born into privilege were like nancy cunard (born <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#otd</a> in 1896), maybe we wouldn&#x27;t have such an itchy collective guillotine finger. this fashionable fash-basher &amp; anti-racism campaigner (&amp; heir to the cunard shipping line) was a writer who became a muse to man ray, james joyce &amp; langston hughes. <br>when she wasn&#x27;t busy being effortlessly avant-garde, nancy worked as a translator for the french resistance.<br><a href="/tags/nancycunard/" rel="tag">#nancyCunard</a> <a href="/tags/antifascist/" rel="tag">#antiFascist</a> <a href="/tags/antiracist/" rel="tag">#antiRacist</a> <a href="/tags/poetry/" rel="tag">#poetry</a></p>

<p><a href="/tags/onthisday/" rel="tag">#OnThisDay</a>, 18 Mar 1979, the first National Black Women’s Conference started in Brixton, London, arranged by the Organisation of Women of African and Asian Descent (OWAAD). Over 300 women attended.</p><p>OWAAD was founded by Stella Dadzie and Olive Morris in 1978 to bring a black feminist perspective to political action. </p><p>Morris died in July 1979 of non-Hodgkin lymphoma. In 2024, she was recognised for her work with a blue plaque.</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/britishhistory/" rel="tag">#BritishHistory</a> <a href="/tags/london/" rel="tag">#London</a> <a href="/tags/histodons/" rel="tag">#Histodons</a></p>

<p>Happy 97th birthday to the incomparable Yayoi Kusama, born <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> 22 March 1929! Amongst her massive catalog of works are some cool animals, including lots of butterflies...<br>Papillon (I), 2000<br>Screenprint, 38 × 45.5 cm<br><a href="https://artsy.net/artwork/yayoi-kusama-papillon-i" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="artsy.net/artwork/yayoi-kusama-papillon-i"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">artsy.net/artwork/yayoi-kusama</span><span class="invisible">-papillon-i</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/womenartists/" rel="tag">#WomenArtists</a> <a href="/tags/womenshistorymonth/" rel="tag">#WomensHistoryMonth</a></p>