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(Meme)X Marks the Spot: Theorizing Metablogging Paper Papers Cabinet Magazine Online - A Timeline of Timelines This is an expanded version of a timeline tha­t appeared in Cabinet's "Histories of the Future" issue. Daniel Rosenberg's introduction to the timeline can be found here. Although we have not been able to preserve the horizontal design, we have added additio­nal entries for this web version. If there are omissions or errors, we'd love to hear from you. Please email Cabinet at this e-mail address. Jewish scholar José ben Halafta calculates the exact length of time between Creation and the destruction of the Second Temple. ca. 325 In his Chronicle, Eusebius of Caesarea innovates a tabular system to coordinate events drawn from several distinct historiographic traditions. ca. 415 Augustine’s allegorical interpretation of the biblical chronology forms a framework for interpreting human history according to the “six ages of man.” Scythian monk Dionysius Exiguus introduces the convention of dating events anno Domini. ca. 530 Rule of St. 10th CENTURY 12th CENTURY 12–13th CENTURY 13th CENTURY ca. 1500 H.

El futuro de los blogs Vivimos en una era que avanza a pasos agigantados, donde la sociedad se transforma y transforma su modo de vivir de forma constante; rompe paradigmas. La manera en que la sociedad de nuestra época se comunica también ha adquirido diversos cambios a lo largo del tiempo. Gracias a los avances tecnológicos, el hombre dispone de nuevos medios para transmitir y recibir información. La tecnología trae a nosotros formas diversas para comunicarnos, agregando a éste, el papel que juega el “Internet” en nuestros días; nos sumergen en un mundo de conexión e intercambio de información, todo se basa en la inmediatez y en la manera más cómoda y sencilla de transmitir y recibir mensajes. Se ha revolucionado tanto la forma de comunicar que ahora se le apuesta a todo aquello que tenga que ver con lo digital; si lo sabremos nosotros, que preferimos prender nuestra computadora personal -o cualquier gadget con Internet- y escribir unas cuantas letras para tener acceso a la información que deseamos.

QuestionCopyright.org Scriptor.org www-db.stanford.edu/pub/voy/museum/google.... by Rich Scholes March 2000 Visitors to Google's Mountain View headquarters are passed by pool cue-carrying programmers, greeted by a friendly, jelly-bean-eating assistant and entertained by a monitor that continually scrolls a selection of in-process Google searches. Homegrown on the Farm In the spring of 1995, Google's future co-founders first met at a social outing in San Francisco designed to welcome new applicants to Stanford's computer science doctoral program. Google soon overgrew the bounds of the lab of Page and Brin's principal investigator. And companies were interested. Google Makes Friends Then, in 1998, things heated up. Page turned his dorm room into Google's new home, importing computers to his bedside. Brin and Page gathered money from family and close friends. Bechtolsheim actually catalyzed Google's incorporation. Google's Holiday Cheer: As with most holidays, February 2 brought a visitor. By June 1999, Google made its first press release. As a result, Google is fast!

Wiki History This began on March 25, 1995. A little later (May 1, 1995), an InvitationToThePatternsList caused an increase in participation. Growth has continued since then, to the point where the average number of new pages ranges between 5 and 12 per day. Landmark changes to the Wiki script - approximate dates; please put correct dates if you know them. 1996 EditCopy 1998 Perl5 dbm binding 1999 Denial-of-service protection logic 1999 Remote index for search 2000 Update conflict detection (EditConflictResolution) 2000 UserName 2000 QuickChanges 2000 NewNotification 2000 LikePages, VisualTour 2000 PageDeletion 2001 SisterSites 2001? I recently stumbled across this early description of the c2.com server with hit statistics for the first three years of operation. Page Hits In 1995, I started keeping wiki pages in a directory that let them show up in the disk-usage (du) statistics that I collected about once a year. 2004-2005: Thread Drift Proponents of ChatterForTheSakeOfChatter?

Declaration of Independence When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good. New Hampshire:

Ancient Human Footprint About 20,000 years ago, humans trekked along the margins of a shallow lake in Australia, leaving behind records of their passage in the soft, wet sand. In 2003, an aboriginal woman who is likely a descendant of those early Australians stumbled across dozens of timeworn footprints in the same area. Excavations of the site have since uncovered hundreds more. The discovery, detailed in a recent issue of the Journal of Human Evolution, represents the largest collection of Pleistocene human footprints in the world, and the only footprints from that era ever found in Australia. "The preservation is just remarkable," said study team member Matthew Cupper of the University of Melbourne in Australia. The Pleistocene stretched from about 2 million to 12,000 years ago. A series of climatic upheavals, the worldwide spread of human-like primates, or hominids; The extinction of Neanderthals and large land mammals—including mammoths, giant sloth and saber toothed cats; The rise of modern humans.

History of data storage If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to our feed, or like us on Facebook for updates. Thanks for visiting! Did you know that it would take around 6 000 floppy disks to store one DVD – or 4 500 compact cassettes, with a playback time of 280 days? Here’s a brief look into the history of data storage. Punch cards The oldest known form of data storage is from 1725 and was done by Basile Bouchon when he used a perforated paper loop to store patterns that were to be used on cloth. But the first real patent for some kind of data storage is dated back in 23 Sep 1884 by Herman Hollerith (pdf) – an invention that was used for nearly 100 years until the mid 1970s. Here’s an example of how a typical punch card could look like, it’s a 90 column card punched in 1972. 90 column punch card [fourmilab.ch] Punched tape The first known use of the paper tape was back in 1846 by Alexander Bain – the inventor of the fax machine and the electric printing telegraph. Paper tape [Wikipedia] Selectron tubes

Dijkstra Archive: Home page The Manuscripts Like most of us, Dijkstra always believed it a scientist’s duty to maintain a lively correspondence with his scientific colleagues. To a greater extent than most of us, he put that conviction into practice. For over four decades, he mailed copies of his consecutively numbered technical notes, trip reports, insightful observations, and pungent commentaries, known collectively as “EWDs”, to several dozen recipients in academia and industry. Thanks to the ubiquity of the photocopier and the wide interest in Dijkstra’s writings, the informal circulation of many of the EWDs eventually reached into the thousands. Although most of Dijkstra’s publications began life as EWD manuscripts, the great majority of his manuscripts remain unpublished. The original manuscripts, along with diaries, correspondence, photographs, and other papers, are housed at The Center for American History of The University of Texas at Austin. Indexes 0. 1. Transcripts and translations Links between EWDs

amp; Blog Archive & The 25 Most 6. How Does a Word Become a Curse Word? Our parents are totally going to ground us for talking about this, but if you must know, a "curse" was originally just a bad type of prayer. Thus, the first curse word was likely "damn," as in asking God to damn someone to Hell, which was considered taboo because of the religious power it wielded. Condemning people to an eternity of suffering isn't something to let everyone just go around doing on a daily basis, so the government stepped in, leading to the first censorship laws. Among the first victims was William Shakespeare, whose works were considered quite racy for their time, and not just because he sent his fair share of characters to Hades. Depending on what the sexual mores of the current generation were, formerly innocuous words could suddenly become unfit for polite company. Sometimes these avoidance tactics went a little too far, though.

Tokyo Rose rotten > Library > Biographies > Entertainers > Radio > Tokyo Rose Much to the eventual disappointment of American GIs masturbating all over the Pacific theater, Tokyo Rose never existed. There was nobody named Tokyo Rose, nor was it anybody's nickname. There was never even a fictional character named Tokyo Rose. The name was just a placeholder used by Allied troops to refer to any of the two dozen female voices they heard regularly on Radio Tokyo. Nevertheless, after World War II an American citizen was accused of having been that nonexistent fictional character, and she wound up in a federal penitentiary serving a ten-year sentence for treason. That woman was named Iva Ikuko Toguri. When an aunt in Japan fell ill, the family was bound by tradition to send someone. Iva attempted to return to California, but government bureaucrats stalled her paperwork requests and the last ship sailed without her. More than 20 women served as voice talent for "The Zero Hour."