On this day, 56 years ago:
"At 10:30 p.m., 29 October 1969, the first ARPANET message was sent from this UCLA site to the Stanford Research Institute."
https://ethw.org/Milestones:Birthplace_of_the_Internet,_1969
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"Nettime has been widely recognized for its seminal role stimulating and disseminating ideas about Netzkritik or Net Critique, net.art, and tactical media and pioneered practices such as "collaborative filtering"."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nettime
The internet mailing list Nettime was created in 1995, 30 years ago.
https://nettime.org/Lists-Archives/nettime-l-9510/msg00000.html
#internet #TheWeb #history #InternetHistory #OTD #OnThisDay #MailingList #NetArt #nettime
"On 12 November 1990 [Tim Berners-Lee and Robert Cailliau] published a formal proposal outlining principal concepts and defining important terms behind the web. The document described a "hypertext project" called "WorldWideWeb" in which a "web" of "hypertext documents" could be viewed by “browsers”."
https://home.cern/science/computing/where-web-was-born
https://www.w3.org/Proposal.html
#WorldWideWeb #HypertextProject #TheWeb #internet #TechHistory #technology #OnThisDay #OTD
ActivityPub, the protocol that powers much of the fediverse and allows the various fediverse platforms and servers to talk to each other, has become an official W3C standard 8 years ago!
https://www.w3.org/news/2018/activitypub-is-now-a-w3c-recommendation/
#fediverse #activitypub #standards #OpenWeb #W3C #anniversary #OTD #OnThisDay
#OnThisDay, 11 Feb 1989, the Rev Barbara Harris is consecrated, the first woman to become a Bishop in the worldwide Anglican Communion. Due to death threats, she was advised to wear a bulletproof vest at the ceremony: she declined.
"I certainly don't want to be one of the boys. I want to offer my peculiar gifts as a black woman... a sensitivity and an awareness that comes out of more than a passing acquaintance with oppression."
#OnThisDay #June6th1944 #DDay #Normandy #Allies #WWII
Remembering those who answered the call and fought and sacrificed their lives for a better world 🌍 #82ndAnniversary
#SixthOfJune 🇺🇸🇬🇧🇨🇦🇫🇷
#OnThisDay, 18 Mar 1979, the first National Black Women’s Conference started in Brixton, London, arranged by the Organisation of Women of African and Asian Descent (OWAAD). Over 300 women attended.
OWAAD was founded by Stella Dadzie and Olive Morris in 1978 to bring a black feminist perspective to political action.
Morris died in July 1979 of non-Hodgkin lymphoma. In 2024, she was recognised for her work with a blue plaque.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #BritishHistory #London #Histodons
“Once, with hand-grenades in my shopping bag, I travelled in a train so full that I had to stand against a German NCO.”
#OnThisDay, 18 Mar 1943, Francine Agazarian arrives in Nazi-occupied France to be a courier in the Special Operations Executive. The British SOE supported the French Resistance.
#WomenInHistory #WomensHistoryMonth #History #WorldWar2 #Histodons
Mark Twain died #onthisday in 1910. The best known of his books is Huckleberry Finn, not so well known is Jap Herron which, according to a woman named Emily Grant Hutchings, he dictated from beyond the grave via a ouija board... https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/jap-herron-a-novel-written-from-the-ouija-board-1917 #OTD
Ah, I was just reminded that it was on this day in 2013 when Google Reader was shut down.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Reader
Looking back, this feels like the moment when my relationship with (corporate) technology started to shift. What was it for you all? Am I forgetting an earlier event?
Greater Feast of John Balance, Jhonn Balance, Geoffrey Nigel Laurence Rushton, died November 13, 2004 at Weston-super-Mare, Somerset, England https://hermetic.com/hermeneuticon/john-balance #calendar #historic #OTD #OnThisDay
#️⃣ Releasing On This Day 1.5 — Merged Grid and 50% of September Proceeds for St. Jude
On This Day 1.5 is out 🎉 A new Merged Grid shows all your years in one continuous grid, you can define the date format in your shared text yourself, and many more smaller updates. It's also just in time for @relay's St. Jude fundraiser, so I'm giving 50% of the app's September proceeds to it. If you'd rather donate directly: https://relay.fm/stjude https://apps.apple.com/us/app/on-this-day-rewind/id6754617354 #OnThisDay #IndieDev #Photography
Frontispiece to Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things (1904), a classic collection of Japanese ghost stories compiled and translated by Lafcadio Hearn, who died in Tokyo #onthisday in 1904. Read its wonderful stories here: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/kwaidan-stories-and-studies-of-strange-things-1904/ #OTD
Happy birthday Buster Keaton! Born #onthisday in 1895. Watch his silent classic The General from 1926: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/the-general-1926
Front cover to Flatland (1884) by Edwin Abbott Abbott, who died #onthisday in 1926. Read Ian Stewart's introduction to the strange tale of A. Square's geometric adventures, the first ever book that could be described as “mathematical fiction” https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/aspiring-to-a-higher-plane #otd
