#Tag · Bonfire

Project Gutenberg @gutenberg_org@mastodon.social · 2 months ago

American admiral and computer scientist, (designed COBOL) Grace Hopper was born #OTD in 1906.

She created the first compiler, the A-0 System, in 1952. She was also one of the first programmers on the Harvard Mark I computer. Hopper popularized the term "debugging" in computing after discovering an actual moth causing a malfunction in the Mark II computer.

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

#computerscience #mathematics #womeninStem

Log book showing the "bug" found caught in a Mark II relay

Courtesy of the Naval Surface Warfare Center, Dahlgren, VA., 1988. - U.S. Naval Historical Center Online Library — Log book showing the "bug" found caught in a Mark II relay Courtesy of the Naval Surface Warfare Center, Dahlgren, VA., 1988. - U.S. Naval Historical Center Online Library

Commodore Grace M. Hopper, USN (covered).

James S. Davis - This image was released by the United States Navy with the ID DN-SC-84-05971 (next). — Commodore Grace M. Hopper, USN (covered). James S. Davis - This image was released by the United States Navy with the ID DN-SC-84-05971 (next).

Working Class History @workingclasshistory@mastodon.social · 4 months ago

#OtD 15 Oct 1940 Charlie Chaplin's first talkie The Great Dictator debuted in New York (while the US was still formally at peace with Nazi Germany). The antifascist film ends with this impassioned speech to the audience opposing all forms of oppression https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8730/the-great-dictator-debuts?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Project Gutenberg @gutenberg_org@mastodon.social · 5 months ago

#OTD in 1962.

Rachel Carson's book Silent Spring is published, inspiring an environmental movement and the creation of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

The book documented the environmental harm caused by the indiscriminate use of DDT, a pesticide used by soldiers during WW2. Carson accused the chemical industry of spreading disinformation, and public officials of accepting the industry's marketing claims unquestioningly.

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

#books #environment #nature

Cover of the first edition of Silent Spring by Rachel Carson, published in September 23, 1962.

Project Gutenberg @gutenberg_org@mastodon.social · 5 months ago

American mathematician Dorothy Vaughan was born #OTD in 1910.

She was the first respected Black female manager at NASA, thus creating a long-lasting legacy for diversity in mathematics & science for West Area Computers. As one of the first female coders in the field who knew how to code FORTRAN, she was able to instruct other Black women on the coding language & paved a wave of female programmers to integrate their work into NASA’s systems.

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

#mathematics #womeninSTEM

Vaughan with her human computer colleagues Lessie Hunter, and Vivian Adair. Margaret Ridenhour and Charlotte Craidon are standing in the back.

Human Computers: photo donated by B. Golemba — Vaughan with her human computer colleagues Lessie Hunter, and Vivian Adair. Margaret Ridenhour and Charlotte Craidon are standing in the back. Human Computers: photo donated by B. Golemba

Stefan Bohacek @stefan@stefanbohacek.online · 6 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.

Erik Uden 🥥🌴🍑 @ErikUden@mastodon.de · 6 months ago

112 years ago today #OTD

A picture of a newspaper reading:
THE RODNEY AND OTAMATEA TiMES, WEDNESDAY. AUGUST 14 1912 Science Notes and News. COAL CONSUMPTION AFFECT- ING CLIMATE. The furnaces of the world are now burning about 2,000,000,000 tons of coal a year. When this is burned, uniting with oxygen, it adds about 7,000,000,000 tons of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere yearly. This tends to make the air a more effective blanket for the earth and to raise its temperature. The effect may be considerable in a few centuries. — A picture of a newspaper reading: THE RODNEY AND OTAMATEA TiMES, WEDNESDAY. AUGUST 14 1912 Science Notes and News. COAL CONSUMPTION AFFECT- ING CLIMATE. The furnaces of the world are now burning about 2,000,000,000 tons of coal a year. When this is burned, uniting with oxygen, it adds about 7,000,000,000 tons of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere yearly. This tends to make the air a more effective blanket for the earth and to raise its temperature. The effect may be considerable in a few centuries.

Working Class History @workingclasshistory@mastodon.social · 6 months ago

#OtD 12 Aug 2017 32-year-old anti-racist Heather Heyer was killed and 19 injured in a neo-Nazi terror attack in Charlottesville, VA. Heather was one of many protesting a white supremacist rally when a Nazi drove his car deliberately into the crowd https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8376/heather-heyer-murdered?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Stefan Bohacek @stefan@stefanbohacek.online · 7 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.