Solder History: The Unsung Hero of Digital Electronics https://tedium.co/2018/01/25/soldering-technology-history/
Black Mirror and The History of Science Fiction - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hr9_DcO6G3A
📚 Finished reading A Brief History of Vice: How Bad Behavior Built Civilization by Robert Evans
📚 Finished reading A Brief History of Vice: How Bad Behavior Built Civilization by Robert Evans
GPS History: The Evolution of Global Positioning https://tedium.co/2018/01/11/gps-history-evolution/
“A Sloppy Machine, Like Me”… https://wearethemutants.com/2018/01/09/a-sloppy-machine-like-me-the-history-of-video-synthesizers/
Proceed With Caution: Let‘s Talk Warning Signs https://tedium.co/2018/01/02/warning-signs-history/
Unalloyed irony
Soon to be ex-Senator Al Franken announced, on an emotional speech, his resignation yesterday. He is leaving the Senate after been accused of sexual misconduct.
“I, of all people, am aware that there is some irony in the fact that I am leaving while a man who has bragged on tape about his history of sexual assault sits in the Oval Office, and a man who has repeatedly preyed on young girls campaigns for the Senate with the [full support of his party] … ⌘ Read more
Dialectics & the Mechanics of History: A Repair Manual to Fix Our Future https://www.johnlaurits.com/2017/dialectics-history-marx-repair-manual/
Mashed Potatoes History: The Long, Hard Road to Instant https://tedium.co/2017/11/21/mashed-potato-history/
First Workshop on the History of Expressive Systems http://www.expressive-systems.org/hex/01/
New York Radical Women Feminist Collective: An Oral History https://www.thecut.com/2017/11/an-oral-history-of-feminist-group-new-york-radical-women.html
Wesley Willis Remembrance: Not Just an Outsider https://tedium.co/2017/11/16/wesley-willis-remembrance-history/
What the idea of civilisational ‘collapse’ says about history | Aeon Essays https://aeon.co/essays/what-the-idea-of-civilisational-collapse-says-about-history
FeedBurner History: Why Google Can‘t Kill It https://tedium.co/2017/11/14/google-feedburner-rss-history/
Hidden Tracks: Nowhere Left To Hide https://tedium.co/2017/11/09/hidden-tracks-album-history/
How an Amateur Astronomer Became One of History‘s Greatest Solar Observers - Atlas Obscura https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/sunspots-japanese-amateur-astronomer-sun-science
Tracing the Development of the Doppelgänger - Atlas Obscura https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/history-doppelganger
The Misunderstood History of the Balkans‘ Surreal War Memorials - Atlas Obscura https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/spomenik-memorials-yugoslavia-balkans
Asphalt History: The Evolution of the Pothole-Maker https://tedium.co/2017/11/06/asphalt-pothole-history/
Deep in the royal archives is a dorian map. The kingdom’s long been existing outside of time, history advances only on this parchment
Virgin Cola: Richard Branson‘s Greatest Failure https://tedium.co/2017/11/02/virgin-cola-history/
The Weird Logic Behind Area Codes https://tedium.co/2017/10/31/telephone-area-codes-history/
Napkin History: The Evolution From Cloth to Paper https://tedium.co/2017/08/08/napkin-history/
Zozo Demon Legend & Link to Ouija Board and Led Zeppelin - Thrillist https://www.thrillist.com/entertainment/nation/zozo-demon-history-ouija-board
Public Domain Film History: A Cottage Industry of Copyright Mishaps https://tedium.co/2017/10/24/public-domain-film-history-copyright/
Public Domain Film History: A Cottage Industry of Copyright Mishaps https://tedium.co/2017/10/24/public-domain-film-history-copyright/
Card catalogs and the secret history of modernity https://kottke.org/17/10/card-catalogs-and-the-secret-history-of-modernity
Assault, Robbery, and Murder: The Dark History of "Bedsheet Ghosts" | Mental Floss http://mentalfloss.com/article/507440/assault-robbery-and-murder-dark-history-bedsheet-ghosts
A Brief History of the ‘Danse Macabre’ - Atlas Obscura https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/danse-macabre-david-pumpkins-art-history
Usenet History: How Binaries Took Over Newsgroups https://tedium.co/2017/10/03/usenet-binaries-history/
A Secret History of the Pissing Figure in Art | The New Yorker https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/a-secret-history-of-the-pissing-figure-in-art
Failed Histories of Electronic Music https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/organised-sound/article/failed-histories-of-electronic-music/1B1F7D957FAFF355B5CD797185F4EEFD/core-reader
Mondo 2000 History Project : Free Texts : Download & Streaming : Internet Archive https://archive.org/details/mondohistory
How the Summer of Love helped give birth to the Religious Right - Vox https://www.vox.com/the-big-idea/2017/8/31/16229320/summer-of-love-jesus-people-religious-right-history
Walkie Talkie History: From World War II to Nextel http://tedium.co/2017/08/17/walkie-talkie-history/
Steak Knife History: From Sharp To Dull To Sharp Again http://tedium.co/2017/08/22/steak-knife-history/
DRM History: It‘s Older Than You Think http://tedium.co/2017/08/24/drm-history-intertrust-contentguard/
The History and Continued Evolution of the Dead Kennedys’ ‘Nazi Punks F— Off’ http://diffuser.fm/nazi-punks-off-dead-kennedys/
R. Stevie Moore: The Man With 400 Albums http://tedium.co/2017/08/29/r-stevie-moore-outsider-music-history/
📚 Finished reading Birth: The Surprising History of How We Are Born by Tina Cassidy
📚 Finished reading Birth: The Surprising History of How We Are Born by Tina Cassidy
On the dark history of intelligence as domination | Aeon Essays https://aeon.co/essays/on-the-dark-history-of-intelligence-as-domination
World‘s First Computer Store: Early Tech Retail http://tedium.co/2017/08/03/early-computer-retailers-history/?utm_source=Tedium&utm_campaign=Tedium_08_03_2017&utm_medium=email
📚 Finished reading A Brief History of the World by Peter N. Stearns