-
9 votes
-
How did the Qing dynasty collapse? The Xinhai revolution explained
3 votes -
The folkloric roots of the QAnon conspiracy
5 votes -
MLB is finally recognizing the Negro Leagues as the Major Leagues they always were
8 votes -
The fraying of the US Global Currency Reserve System
11 votes -
How the Kingston coal ash spill unearthed a nuclear nightmare
6 votes -
Tomorrow’s World: Office of the Future (1969)
7 votes -
That Downfall scene explained: What is Hitler freaking out about?
8 votes -
The rise and fall of Ambrosia Software
7 votes -
Inside the surprisingly big business of UK packaged ice
8 votes -
Strange object recaptured by Earth, and currently in Earth orbit, is 1966 Centaur upper stage from Surveyor 2 spacecraft
6 votes -
Denmark's prime minister has apologised to twenty-two children who were removed from their homes in Greenland in the 1950s in a failed social experiment
11 votes -
Unwrapping Aztec Tamales | The Tamale Wars
8 votes -
A look back at the storied history of action RPG Torchlight with lead developer Max Schaefer and composer Matt Uelmen
4 votes -
Marine archaeologists catch a break on the bottom of the Baltic Sea: A 75-year-old Enigma machine
12 votes -
Ethics in strategy gaming, part 2: Colonization
10 votes -
Best articles of 2020
5 votes -
Black Death - A historically accurate cover of "Hollaback Girl" by Gwen Stefani (2010)
7 votes -
Asteroid impact: What are our chances?
4 votes -
The code that controls your money
8 votes -
Who was Ross Perot, and what if he won in 1992?
11 votes -
Bob Newhart and the masked doctor who cured the gays
5 votes -
From Xenogears to Xenoblade: The history of Monolith Soft
5 votes -
"Brilliant" plans to win WW2: How France planned to win the war against Nazi Germany
7 votes -
How Dutch plant breeders built our brussels sprouts boom
7 votes -
Dan Marino never won a Super Bowl. Here's what left him empty-handed.
3 votes -
Modern classics summarized: All Quiet on the Western Front
7 votes -
Standardizing <select> and beyond: the past, present and future of native HTML form controls
7 votes -
The 1991 Thanksgiving Day prank in NASA's Mission Control that went horribly wrong
9 votes -
WTF happened in 1971?
16 votes -
Radical – Why the nineties was actually the best decade for comics
3 votes -
'Someone's typing...': The history behind text messaging's most dreadful feature
10 votes -
Assassin’s Creed: Valhalla and the unfortunate implications
23 votes -
The secrets of Monkey Island’s source code
14 votes -
Sega VR revived: emulating an unreleased Genesis accessory with the help of Nuclear Rush's source code
5 votes -
The Internet Archive is now emulating Flash animations, games and toys in their software collection
20 votes -
Why we say "OK"
7 votes -
Screws - The early years
8 votes -
Pumpion Pie from 1670
9 votes -
Earth has captured a tiny object as a satellite for the next few months, which is likely the rocket booster from the failed Surveyor 2 mission to the Moon in 1966
12 votes -
This should keep you busy for a while. With 9,036 pieces, Lego’s Roman Colosseum set is its largest ever.
12 votes -
Do you read 'old news'/article archives?
Asked because I like the idea of reading about the past and feel unsatisfied by r/history and r/askhistorians mainly because reddit's search isn't that great and those subs have a much wider scope...
Asked because I like the idea of reading about the past and feel unsatisfied by r/history and r/askhistorians mainly because reddit's search isn't that great and those subs have a much wider scope than most news archives.
I'm gonna do this on a Q&A format. Note that "old news" doesn't need to be news articles, it can be blogs for example.
If you read old news/articles, where do you get them from/find them?
What kind of "old news" do you read?
What historical period do you tend to read about?
If you're reading an article about a historical event you remember, how does your memory tend to compare to those articles?
How often do you do it?
What do you think about subreddits like r/twentyyearsago, since they're basically trawling through those news archives?
7 votes -
Shaquille O’Neal and Kobe Bryant on the 2003 Los Angeles Lakers
5 votes -
Why military history?
5 votes -
Web history - Chapter 5: Publishing
4 votes -
Hakeem Olajuwon and the Rockets beefed so hard he almost left Houston before they ever got a ring
6 votes -
The history and evolution of the term "roguelike"
9 votes -
Silphium: The lost aphrodisiac of ancient Rome
5 votes -
Manufacturing a better foot | Running shoes
4 votes -
The remarkable life of Roxie Laybourne, the world’s first forensic ornithologist at the Smithsonian Institution
6 votes