Archive for the 'history' Category

Comprehensive article on the history, syntax and varieties of HTML. Of particular interest is the "Hypertext features not in HTML" section.

Feature in the current issue of Seed tracing the curious effect of small amounts of Hydrogen Sulfide on a number of different living species to one of the 5 only partially explainable mass extinctions in the fossil record.

Adobe's website about the minutiae of typography.

Nice interactive timeline of the history of the major browsers.

A collection on the National Library of Medicine on the history of the representation of conjoined twins.

History sure bunches up near the present.

I've been reading Baudolino over the weekend and it reminded me that whenever one reads Eco set in the medieval period, it's probably wise to have a list of heresies to refer back to every once in a while.

As in all the best nerdfights, we were of course both right. Step 3: Profit.

Includes both Timeline of steam power and Timeline of LiveJournal. Sort of via fitnr.

Bless you, kio. A heavily abbreviated(?) list of theories which have been subsequently debunked or discarded. fitnr pulls out a good one from the list—Rain Follows the Plow, a pseudo-scientific version of Ben Marcus' The Age of Wire and String.

At first I was all like "No way everyone stopped predicting the Apocalypse once 1700 rolled around," and then I was all like, "Oh, pagination." thanks, kio.

via mudd up