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5 votes
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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
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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 -
"Not married, but willing to be": Photos of men in love from the 1850s to 1950s
23 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
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In 1978, a photographer at a Birmingham lab fell ill with smallpox, prompting a race against time to prevent an epidemic. Does the outbreak carry lessons for Covid-19?
12 votes -
The secrets of Monkey Island’s source code
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Sega VR revived: emulating an unreleased Genesis accessory with the help of Nuclear Rush's source code
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The Internet Archive is now emulating Flash animations, games and toys in their software collection
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Why we say "OK"
7 votes -
Screws - The early years
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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
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This should keep you busy for a while. With 9,036 pieces, Lego’s Roman Colosseum set is its largest ever.
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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?
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Shaquille O’Neal and Kobe Bryant on the 2003 Los Angeles Lakers
5 votes -
Why military history?
5 votes -
The remarkable and complex legacy of Native American military service
6 votes -
Web history - Chapter 5: Publishing
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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"
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Silphium: The lost aphrodisiac of ancient Rome
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Manufacturing a better foot | Running shoes
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The remarkable life of Roxie Laybourne, the world’s first forensic ornithologist at the Smithsonian Institution
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How Sierra was captured, then killed, by a massive accounting fraud
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The story behind markdown
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The history of nachos has been shaped by the US-Mexico border
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How did Soviet planners design the Union's cities?
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Mario Kart 64: The quest for world record perfection
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Living legacy
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The history of peri peri chicken: Originally from South Africa and Portugal, the peppery, lemony dish is now beloved by Texas Muslims. To understand why, you have to go back four hundred years.
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The history of canned cocktails: Since the 1890s, the premade cocktail has flip-flopped from novelty item to kitschy commodity - but the pandemic has sales surging
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DJ Drama, mixtapes, and the raid that changed rap
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America's Pandemic: In a three-part documentary, the Washington Post explores a failed response to the coronavirus pandemic that’s left 225,000 Americans dead, despite decades of preparation
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The Digital Antiquarian: Master of Magic
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Movie night at the White House: A century of screenings, decoded
7 votes -
The forgotten story of ... the France football captain who murdered for Hitler
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The contested legacy of the anti-fascist International Brigades, who enlisted from around the world to fight fascism in Spain
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Artistic enigma decoded by cosmic Czech start-up
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Berlin mystery attack targets seventy museum artifacts
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Filippo Buonanni's Harmonic Cabinet (1722)
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Driver of the largest mass extinction in the history of the Earth identified
13 votes