Altavista: The Rise & Fall of the Biggest Pre-Google Search Engine
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Flickr will soon start deleting photos — and massive chunks of internet history
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Teutoburg Forest 9 AD - Roman-Germanic wars
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Blackout at home: When the lights went out at Shea Stadium in 1977
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This land is meant only for saffron. Without it, it means nothing.
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The Reese’s Piece: How a series of creative ads helped Reese’s peanut butter cups—and later, candy-coated peanut butter candies—conquer the world
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The Digital Antiquarian: Ultima VII
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The internet was built on the free labor of open source developers. Is that sustainable?
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ZIP is Broken, Except it’s Not, Except it Is
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Ten years without Jason, can we now admit ‘Friday the 13th’ 2009 was damn good?
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Sack of Constantinople 1204 - Fourth Crusade
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Netflix series recommendation: Mr. Sunshine
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In total control - From the arcades to the living room, how the controller has evolved—and why one tech historian, Benj Edwards, started building his own
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Michelangelo’s Sistine splendor, story of a Renaissance icon
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Clash of the slasher titans: The ’88 and ’89 box office battles between Michael, Jason and Freddy!
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During WWII, Bletchley Park was home to codebreaking and tea shenanigans
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The greatest outfits in Grammys history
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Death and valor on a warship doomed by its own Navy - An investigation into the crash of the USS Fitzgerald
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The oral history of Office Space: Behind the scenes of the cult classic
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Eastern Front of WWII animated: 1943/44
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The real definition(s) of freestyle
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America colonisation ‘cooled Earth's climate’
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Nintendo makes it clear that piracy is the only way to preserve video game history
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Holocaust Memorial Day: How the pink triangle became a symbol of gay rights
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The embroidered computer
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The Beatles: The strange history of Sexy Sadie
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A newly-discovered note may finally prove that the much-disputed portrait of young Jane Austen is, in fact, the novelist herself
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“The Linux of social media” - How LiveJournal pioneered (then lost) blogging
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To save the sound of a Stradivarius, a whole city must keep quiet
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Battle of the ax men: Who really built the first electric rock 'n' roll guitar?
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Mini Stories: Volume 6
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A 1950s TV show had a fear-mongering conman named Trump who wanted to build a wall.
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What America can learn from the fall of the Roman republic (Interview with historian Edward Watts about his book "Mortal Republic")
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A massive amount of iconic works will enter the public domain on New Year’s Eve
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Bandersnatch: the game that killed a company and inspired a Black Mirror episode
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A short history of computers in the movies: Panel lights, spinning tapes, and lab coats
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Leo Tolstoy on finding meaning in a meaningless world
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Only Michelangelo made abdomens – and wonky toes – like these
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'Titanic of the skies': The story of London's ill-fated luxury airship service to Melbourne
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A nostalgic look back at digital music piracy in the 2000s
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Last Sassanids and the anti-Caliphate alliance with Tang
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Lost NES version of SimCity emerges after twenty-seven years
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Third-wave anti-racism makes sense, but it’s a dead end
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The secret histories of secondhand books
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The great NFL heist: How Fox paid for and changed football forever
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How ‘Baldur’s Gate’ saved the computer RPG
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Mark Blyth Global Trumpism
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First Muslim superhero returns after seventy years – just in time to take down a few Nazis
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The Rise and Demise of RSS
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How we lost our ambitions for the tech-enabled home
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