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• 21-Apr-2023
  A fine remembrance of the web as it was; and is ReadWriteWeb Turns 20 by Richard MacManus. Take blogging itself. People don’t have blogs anymore, now they have email newsletters. People used to read blogs in their RSS Readers, and you would visit the website to leave a comment — or write your own blog post in reply, which would show up as a trackback link...
• 05-Aug-2022

  
  Beaches in Los Angeles, 1970s/1980s I thought this was great: TOD PAPAGEORGE: from “The Beaches, Los Angeles” 1979 – 1982
• 07-Apr-2022

  
  Camp Kearney panoramas in the Library of Congress See Camp Kearney panoramas in the Library of Congress. Found out about this via this PDF that’s a history of Miramar. One fun fact is that the boundaries of Linda Vista in the 19th and early 20th century were way different than what we call Linda Vista now. Here’s a factlet that’s fascinating: In October...
• 10-Dec-2021
  Mosaic Browser, 1993! (new post from webdevelopmenthistory.com) The histories of the web by Richard MacManus on webdevelopmenthistory dot com are wonderful. Read the latest: 1993: Mosaic Launches and the Web is Set Free
• 18-Aug-2021

  
  Small shoutout; Perl and 1994 Yahoo! Earlier this year I did a bit of research that contributed to this article about how the very first versions of Yahoo! were built: 1994: How Perl Became the Foundation of Yahoo on the excellent webdevelopmenthistory.com
• 29-Aug-2020

  
  This documentary about Rubén Salazar: Man in the Middle streaming free now is amazing. @univision34 — it’s amazing history about a man straddling cultures and I immediately identify with him.

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• 06-Apr-2019

  
  Anyone can be a forensic photographic investigator. We have at our fingertips research tools and technology that are stunning. This is of course not new. The future is rather well distributed to people with a certain amount of cashflow and some computer tools. I participate in a Facebook group about old things in San Diego. Someone posted this photo from 1965, asking...
• 01-May-2017

  
  tl;dr: it was slavery. Alexander Stephens, Vice President of the Confederate States of America: March 21, 1861: But not to be tedious in enumerating the numerous changes for the better, allow me to allude to one other — though last, not least. The new constitution has put at rest, forever, all the agitating questions relating to our peculiar institution...
• 11-Oct-2016

  
  Lady Ada for #inktober and #adalovelaceday #inktober2016 I owe my livelihood to her.

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• 09-Sep-2016

  
  15 year old White House Reporter! Charming story from my pal Dennis Wilen (who I’ve known for quite some time, here’s a 2001 blog post mentioning his wisdom) — check it out: A 15 YEAR-OLD AT WASHINGTON PRESS CONFERENCES!

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