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BBC - A History of the World - Home
This site uses objects to tell a history of the world. You’ll find 100 objects from the British Museum and hundreds more from museums and people across the UK.
David Rumsey Historical Map Collection | The Collection
Insurance maps of Frankfort, Kentucky (sheet 1, index); Sanborn Map Company; 1907; City Atlas
In 1996, the Internet Archive began archiving the web for a service called the Wayback Machine . They've now archived 55 billion web pages. That's enough web pages that if you were to print them all out using your roommate's printer while he was at class and tape them end-to-end, you could reach the moon and back 28 trillion times. I decided to peruse the Wayback Machine's earliest archives to see what the internet looked like in 1996, when I was 14 and evidently had much less free time than I do now.
Internet '96
Bugmenot.com - login with these free web passwords to bypass compulsory registration
Unbiased global news The Wall provides a real-time view of what's important by monitoring, analyzing and publishing the most discussed topics on social networks as they occur.
Webby Honorees, Nominees and Winners truly represent the best of the Web. They are but a small percentage of total entries and chosen by members of the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences. See them all here. With nearly 70 categories, Website entries make up the majority of Webby Awards Winners, Nominees and Honorees. Some are beautiful to look at and interact with.
Webby Nominees & Winners
Me & my blog: Jessica Duchen Early in 2004, I began to hear rumblings of an extraordinary development in cyberspace: via a personal web space you could make your writing instantly visible to strangers all around the world. I began surfing to investigate.
Musicomh It's Brit-centric, accessible and unpretentious. The music and arts...
June 1 & 2, 2012 - Boston, MA - Seaport World Trade Center Boston . Presented by BeerAdvocate & Harpoon Brewery . Drink American Craft Beer. The 5th annual American Craft Beer Fest (ACBF) is the east coast's largest celebration of American beer, featuring over 100 American brewers and over 500 beers ! Tickets
American Craft Beer Fest (ACBF)
Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide.
Wordle - Beautiful Word Clouds
Smarthistory: a multimedia web-book about art and art history
Smarthistory.org is a free and open, not-for-profit, art history textbook. Part of the Khan Academy, we use multimedia to deliver unscripted conversations between art historians about the history of art. We are seeking contributors—especially for canonical non-Western material and other survey topics not yet covered.
An unparalleled treasury of iconic images and groundbreaking photography, the National Geographic Image Collection gathers together more than 11 million images chronicling the world from the end of the 19th century to the first decade of the 21st. The 450 selections in the new National Geographic Image Collection book, many never before published, represent the finest of the archive. See many of these selections—and get a glimpse into the archive itself—in this new Image Collection photo gallery and video. Plus, flip through the history of photography, from daguerreotypes to digital, in an all-new interactive time line.