Great article on the history of Detroit music in the 80s/90s

The history of ice cream, vowels in food names, and the origin of smiles http://is.gd/2msfQY #linguistics

"When will the Internet Bubble burst?", March 2000, the article that marked the begining of the end of the dot-com bubble

Published in 1982 and so spot on

youtube time machine

about Mario Segale, the guy who obviously inspired Super Mario's name

Retrofitting refers to the addition of new technology or features to older systems

Doug Engelbart giving the "mother of all Demos" 1968

"“American History Reinvented” is primarily an arrangement, a reconstruction, of historical events, or, more accurately, a reconstruction of historical situations that we imagine as we do simply because they were handed down to us in a particular way in such testimonies as photographs, or through museum-like installations like the village reconstructions in which Neidich has photographed."

"I have acquired 10 million expired threads from 4chan’s history. Roughly half a decade’s worth.

Why? Because it’s part of online history, a study of the human soul when untethered by identity, a way to confirm statements made years ago… any range of reasons which I could not hope to compose out of the air for you. That’s not my job. My job is to save things. And now I’ve saved this."

"In 1993, Dan Linton, owner of a hugely successful BBS called Software Creations, visited Texas and made his way to id Software. This is the footage he recorded one night in November 1993."

"Japan’s love of robots lies in the history of the ‘Karakuri Ningyo’. Until now there has been little interest from outside Japan regarding the Karakuri Ningyo craft, and its influence on technology and the arts."