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29th October is Internet Day
The Internet is everywhere these days, being accessed on phones and tablets, tied into our cameras and our TV’s. Wi-Fi is accessible from everywhere, from city buses to your neighborhood McDonald’s, and the world grows smaller every day as a result. Internet Day is a celebration of this culmination of computing and communication technology, and they way it has brought all our lives together.
The first letters ever transmitted across the prodigal internet, which consisted of two computers, were “L” and “O”. This was as far as they got before the ‘Net crashed, and they had to reboot to get things in running order. We’ve been resetting our routers ever since, just to keep our beloved lifeline running ever since.
Internet Day celebrates the origin of the very first internet transmission ever sent, and from it the utterly world-changing series of events that followed. People are able to video conference from around the world, and the information is stored and transmitted at unbelievable rates between computers and friends and family. Enhanced Reality is becoming a reality, with Digital Overlays available for real world things, seamlessly combining the world of the internet with the one we walk around in every day.
Hard to believe that the first internet transmission was sent just months after Neil Armstrong walked on the moon. The internet is already slightly extra-terrestrial, with video and communication available to the astronauts and space stations circling in low-earth orbit.
Why don’t you start your celebration of Internet Day by visiting the original website, which just so happens to still be online! www.info.cerne.ch Take a moment to gander at its high-quality graphics, it’s utterly sleek and streamlined design, and the sheer high-tech embodied by the first website ever. Absolutely stunning? No?
Realize that at its time, this was the internet, this was how things were designed and put together. So low was the rate at which data could be transferred that images were to be a dream of a distant future, one that would come along swiftly, and with advances and innovations that couldn’t be imagined at that point.
Then go and do your favorite things, visit with your friends, read up on your favorite forums, and generally take some time to appreciate how far the internet has come in the days that followed. Internet Day is a reminder to all of us that this amazing invention started out with two letters “L” and “O”, before we ever were able to login to trillions of website’s put up by billions of users.
Source: daysoftheyear.com
Brian McCullough - How the Internet Happened: From Netscape to the iPhone
The Internet is everywhere these days, being accessed on phones and tablets, tied into our cameras and our TV’s. Wi-Fi is accessible from everywhere, from city buses to your neighborhood McDonald’s, and the world grows smaller every day as a result. Internet Day is a celebration of this culmination of computing and communication technology, and they way it has brought all our lives together.
The first letters ever transmitted across the prodigal internet, which consisted of two computers, were “L” and “O”. This was as far as they got before the ‘Net crashed, and they had to reboot to get things in running order. We’ve been resetting our routers ever since, just to keep our beloved lifeline running ever since.
Internet Day celebrates the origin of the very first internet transmission ever sent, and from it the utterly world-changing series of events that followed. People are able to video conference from around the world, and the information is stored and transmitted at unbelievable rates between computers and friends and family. Enhanced Reality is becoming a reality, with Digital Overlays available for real world things, seamlessly combining the world of the internet with the one we walk around in every day.
Hard to believe that the first internet transmission was sent just months after Neil Armstrong walked on the moon. The internet is already slightly extra-terrestrial, with video and communication available to the astronauts and space stations circling in low-earth orbit.
Why don’t you start your celebration of Internet Day by visiting the original website, which just so happens to still be online! www.info.cerne.ch Take a moment to gander at its high-quality graphics, it’s utterly sleek and streamlined design, and the sheer high-tech embodied by the first website ever. Absolutely stunning? No?
Realize that at its time, this was the internet, this was how things were designed and put together. So low was the rate at which data could be transferred that images were to be a dream of a distant future, one that would come along swiftly, and with advances and innovations that couldn’t be imagined at that point.
Then go and do your favorite things, visit with your friends, read up on your favorite forums, and generally take some time to appreciate how far the internet has come in the days that followed. Internet Day is a reminder to all of us that this amazing invention started out with two letters “L” and “O”, before we ever were able to login to trillions of website’s put up by billions of users.
Source: daysoftheyear.com
Brian McCullough - How the Internet Happened: From Netscape to the iPhone
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Born today Josef Mengele 16 March 1911 –( 7 February 1979)
was a German SS officer and a physician in the Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz. He earned doctorates in anthropology from Munich University and in medicine from Frankfurt University. He initially gained notoriety for being one of the SS physicians who supervised the selection of arriving transports of prisoners, determining who was to be killed and who was to become a forced laborer, but is far more infamous for performing human experiments on camp inmates, including children, for which Mengele was called the "Angel of Death".
Full horror essay here at: https://encyclopedia.thefreedictionar...
was a German SS officer and a physician in the Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz. He earned doctorates in anthropology from Munich University and in medicine from Frankfurt University. He initially gained notoriety for being one of the SS physicians who supervised the selection of arriving transports of prisoners, determining who was to be killed and who was to become a forced laborer, but is far more infamous for performing human experiments on camp inmates, including children, for which Mengele was called the "Angel of Death".
Full horror essay here at: https://encyclopedia.thefreedictionar...
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Today in History - March 18, 1897 Anti-feminism stupidity
An enthusiastic and talented amateur naturalist, Beatrix Potter cultivated a particular interest in mycology, the perennially unglamorous study of fungi. Working in the field and in her kitchen—and making drawings whose lovely detail her later readers would not be surprised to see—she developed a rare ability to germinate spores and surmised that lichens were the product of symbiosis between fungi and algae, an idea, now confirmed, that few believed at the time. The established botanists of her day did little to encourage a self-educated woman; after one encounter she huffed in her journal, “It is odious to a shy person to be snubbed as conceited, especially when the shy person happened to be right, and under the temptation of sauciness.” On this day, though, she was allowed to submit a paper, “On the Germination of the Spores of Agaricineae,” to be presented at the general meeting of the prestigious Linnean Society, though PotPotter, as a woman, was not allowed to attend. Decades later, the society officially acknowledged that Miss Potter had been “treated scurvily” by some of its members.
https://www.librarything.it/work/2138841
An enthusiastic and talented amateur naturalist, Beatrix Potter cultivated a particular interest in mycology, the perennially unglamorous study of fungi. Working in the field and in her kitchen—and making drawings whose lovely detail her later readers would not be surprised to see—she developed a rare ability to germinate spores and surmised that lichens were the product of symbiosis between fungi and algae, an idea, now confirmed, that few believed at the time. The established botanists of her day did little to encourage a self-educated woman; after one encounter she huffed in her journal, “It is odious to a shy person to be snubbed as conceited, especially when the shy person happened to be right, and under the temptation of sauciness.” On this day, though, she was allowed to submit a paper, “On the Germination of the Spores of Agaricineae,” to be presented at the general meeting of the prestigious Linnean Society, though PotPotter, as a woman, was not allowed to attend. Decades later, the society officially acknowledged that Miss Potter had been “treated scurvily” by some of its members.
https://www.librarything.it/work/2138841
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March 22, Alcatraz Closes (1963)
Alcatraz, a rocky island in western California's San Francisco Bay, served as a federal prison housing the country's most dangerous criminals from 1934 to 1963. It became a National Recreation Area in 1972, and by the mid-1990s, it was attracting almost a million visitors a year. Nicknamed "The Rock," Alcatraz was a symbol of the impregnable maximum security fortress prison. During its 29 years of operation, 34 prisoners attempted escapes, but only three may have succeeded. Who were they?
https://www.librarything.it/work/382941/book/214256063
Alcatraz, a rocky island in western California's San Francisco Bay, served as a federal prison housing the country's most dangerous criminals from 1934 to 1963. It became a National Recreation Area in 1972, and by the mid-1990s, it was attracting almost a million visitors a year. Nicknamed "The Rock," Alcatraz was a symbol of the impregnable maximum security fortress prison. During its 29 years of operation, 34 prisoners attempted escapes, but only three may have succeeded. Who were they?
https://www.librarything.it/work/382941/book/214256063
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March 24, 1857, in Literary History today
Idling in Paris, Tolstoy wrote to a friend in Russia on this day, “I can’t foresee the time when the city will have lost its interest for me, or the life its charm.” But by the time he finished the letter the next day, it had. What happened? On that morning, he was “stupid and callous enough” to attend an execution by guillotine: “If a man had been torn to pieces before my eyes it wouldn’t have been so revolting as this ingenious and elegant machine by means of which a strong, hale and hearty man was killed in an instant.” Disgusted with Paris, he couldn’t sleep for days and soon left the city, and his disgust transformed his outlook in a way that never left him. “The law of man—what nonsense!” he wrote that day. “The truth is that the state is a conspiracy designed not only to exploit but above all to corrupt its citizens.”
https://www.librarything.com/work/14219246/summary/162511774
Idling in Paris, Tolstoy wrote to a friend in Russia on this day, “I can’t foresee the time when the city will have lost its interest for me, or the life its charm.” But by the time he finished the letter the next day, it had. What happened? On that morning, he was “stupid and callous enough” to attend an execution by guillotine: “If a man had been torn to pieces before my eyes it wouldn’t have been so revolting as this ingenious and elegant machine by means of which a strong, hale and hearty man was killed in an instant.” Disgusted with Paris, he couldn’t sleep for days and soon left the city, and his disgust transformed his outlook in a way that never left him. “The law of man—what nonsense!” he wrote that day. “The truth is that the state is a conspiracy designed not only to exploit but above all to corrupt its citizens.”
https://www.librarything.com/work/14219246/summary/162511774
