Apple computers used to be built in the US. It was a mess
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The cover of MAD magazine #258 from October 1985 announces a special computer section featuring the MAD Computer Program
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Remember backing up to diskettes? I’m sorry. I do, too.
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Mystery blast sank the USS San Diego in 1918. New report reveals what happened
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Project Code Rush - The beginnings of Netscape/Mozilla
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Four days trapped at sea with crypto’s nouveau riche
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Sega Dreamcast at twenty: The futuristic games console that came too soon
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Identification of key films and personalities in the history of cinema from a Western perspective
Identification of key films and personalities in the history of cinema from a Western perspective Top 20 movies by influence centrality The Wizard of Oz (1939) Star Wars (1977) Psycho (1960) King...
Identification of key films and personalities in the history of cinema from a Western perspective
Top 20 movies by influence centrality
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The Wizard of Oz (1939)
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Star Wars (1977)
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Psycho (1960)
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King Kong (1933)
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2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
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Metropolis (1927)
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Citizen Kane (1941)
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The Birth of a Nation (1915)
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Frankenstein (1931)
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Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)
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Casablanca (1942)
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Dracula (1931)
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The Godfather (1972)
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Jaws (1975)
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Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens (1922)
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The Searchers (1956)
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Cabiria (1914)
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Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
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Gone with the Wind (1939)
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Bronenosets Potemkin (1925)
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If you could choose to live out your entire life in any time and place in history, what would you choose and why?
There are many periods and places of history that are romantic to me, but I wonder which would have been the best/most interesting to actually live in.
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The birthplace of the modern apple
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Will Britain’s beaten, betrayed migrant children find justice at last? Thousands forcibly sent to the Commonwealth from 1945-70 still await compensation – and for many time is running out
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The single biggest layoff in Canadian history
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Last surviving Khmer Rouge leaders found guilty of genocide in landmark ruling
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Navy training video - Mechanical computers [1953]
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Why 536 was ‘the worst year to be alive’
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Three feet from God: An oral history of Nirvana ‘Unplugged’
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‘Amazing Grace’ film review: Aretha Franklin lives in this resplendent gospel concert film
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Tetris Effect and the evolution of Tetris
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We Wish to Plead Our Own Cause: The past and future of America’s black press
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An error message in Windows 10 is a mistake from 1974
@foone🏳️⚧️: It is 2018 and this error message is a mistake from 1974.This limitation, which is still found in the very latest Windows 10, dates back to BEFORE STAR WARS. This bug is as old as Watergate. pic.twitter.com/pPbkZiE57t
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One hundred years on, the scars from World War I linger on Australia's streets and in our psyche.
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These men ate poison so you could have the FDA
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We will curse you - A history of sports fans resorting to performance-enhancing curses, from the Nika riots to the Red Sox
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Artist Mat Collishaw is on a quest to reveal the real woman behind the mask of Elizabeth I, the famously image-conscious monarch
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At 63, I threw away my prized portrait of Robert E. Lee
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The strange and curious tale of the last true hermit
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Near the end of the Middle Ages a device came into service that helped avid readers: the book carousel or book wheel
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Authentically what?
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Tamales are a treat for Día De Los Muertos—and the other 364 days of the year
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How were raisins made before seedless grapes?
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Was Roman concrete better?
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The Digital Antiquarian: Quest for Glory III and IV
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Atari Asteroids: Creating a vector arcade classic
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Time Traveller by Merriam-Webster—Find out when a word was first used in print
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The myth of whiteness in classical sculpture - Greek and Roman statues were often painted, but assumptions about race and aesthetics have suppressed this truth
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The origins of speed limits in the US
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Nuclear War (USSR, 1980, by A. Shandro)
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David R. Chan's love of lists and determination never to eat at the same place twice has seen him eat at over 7,300 Chinese restaurants and become an accidental expert on Chinese-American history
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The oldest true stories in the world
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Evolution of Emacs Lisp
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Code hidden in Stone Age art may be the root of human writing
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Ten books that defined the 1910s
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The 19th century best-selling author excluded by the Brazilian Academy of Letters
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When pop-up books taught popular science
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The Porsche 959's History Was Way More of a Disaster Than You Know
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The long, long history of long, long CVS receipts
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The rise and demise of RSS
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The love story that upended the Texas prison system
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Germany's plans to win WWI
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King Addies celebrates thirty-five years with '35 Gun Salute' mixtape feat. Fugees, Anita Baker, Nas and more
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