#Tag · Bonfire

Konstantinos Dimopoulos @konstantinosd@mastodon.gamedev.place · 2 months ago

'Learning from the Best of Text' by Brian Rushton is a freshly released, free ebook on the history of interactive fiction. On a first glance it looks exhaustive and fascinating.

Download it here (try learning.pdf): https://github.com/brirush84/IFTextbook/releases

#interactivefiction #ebook #history

Stefan Bohacek @stefan@stefanbohacek.online · 3 months ago

Missed this yesterday!

"The first two-network TCP/IP transmission was between the van and ARPANET on August 27, 1976; the van was parked next to Rossotti's (since 1956, officially the "Alpine Inn"), a well-known Portola Valley, California biker bar, and wires were run to one of the picnic tables."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Packet_Radio_Van

via https://mastodon.social/@aka_pugs/113042496976107440

#arpanet #history #otd #internet #InternetHistory #InternetAge

A photo of a commemorative plaque that reads:

BEGINNING OF THE INTERNET AGE

On August 27, 1976, scientists from SRI
International celebrated the successful
completion of tests by sending an electronic
message from a computer set up at a picnic table
behind the Alpine Inn. The message was sent via
a radio network to SRI and on through a second
network, the ARPANET, to Boston. This event
marked the beginning of the Internet Age. — A photo of a commemorative plaque that reads: BEGINNING OF THE INTERNET AGE On August 27, 1976, scientists from SRI International celebrated the successful completion of tests by sending an electronic message from a computer set up at a picnic table behind the Alpine Inn. The message was sent via a radio network to SRI and on through a second network, the ARPANET, to Boston. This event marked the beginning of the Internet Age.

dansup @dansup@mastodon.social · 3 months ago

2016: dan discover mastodon
2017: dan find nobody, alone
2018: dan discover fire ( @pixelfed)
2019: dan still lone
2020: dan invent https://fediverse.info/explore/people
2020: dan say #fedi22
2023: dan meet other dans
2024: dan have dan party

#fediverse #history #fedi22

Susan Larson ♀️🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🌈 @Susan_Larson_TN@mastodon.online · 3 months ago

#KamalaHarris Scores #TIME #Magazine #Cover: ‘The Swiftest #VibeShift in #Modern #Political #History’

“The #ReintroductionofKamalaHarris” was #published on Monday and led with a #description of the scene last week in #Philadelphia when #VicePresident Kamala Harris introduced her #runningmate, #Minnesota #Gov. #TimWalz (D)

https://www.mediaite.com/news/kamala-harris-scores-time-magazine-cover-the-swiftest-vibe-shift-in-modern-political-history/

Stefan Bohacek @stefan@stefanbohacek.online · 3 months ago

"On August 6, 1991 [33 years ago], the first website was introduced to the world. [It] contained information about the World Wide Web Project. It launched at the European Organization for Nuclear Research, CERN, where it was created by British computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee."

http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html

Happy birthday, web!

Via https://www.npr.org/2021/08/06/1025554426/a-look-back-at-the-very-first-website-ever-launched-30-years-later

#WorldWideWeb #WWW #TheWeb #indieweb #FirstWebsite #internet #history #OTD

Screenshot of a very simple web page from the first link in the post, titled "World Wide Web", with a brief description of the World Wide Web project and a few links.

Zhi Zhu 🕸️ @ZhiZhu@newsie.social · 4 months ago

"You are going to see your candidate subjected to the most blistering, vile & specious personal attacks based on her #race & #gender. The effort, to be sure, is aimed at villainizing her with those who are undecided. But it’s also intended to tear her down in your eyes; to distract & demoralize you; to dampen the high spirits that are driving you toward the one goal that is above all this presidential #election year — winning — which depends on #voting"

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/07/26/kamala-harris-trump-racism-history/

#KamalaHarris

Zhi Zhu 🕸️ @ZhiZhu@newsie.social · 4 months ago

"To call a #Black woman a “Jezebel” hearkens back to America’s #racist & #misogynistic #history of casting Black women as insatiably sexual, which served to justify slaveholding men’s systematic sexual #assault of enslaved #women. But for right-wing white #Christians... to say a woman has a “Jezebel spirit” is also to say she is a danger to them, a barely human being hell-bent on seducing men to their destruction"
https://newrepublic.com/article/184213/jezebel-attacks-kamala-harris-christian

#KamalaHarris #Harris #Politics #USPol #USA #News