The Neverland System

Grace Murray Hopper at the UNIVAC keyboard, c. 1960. Grace Brewster Murray: American mathematician and rear admiral in the U.S. Navy who was a pioneer in developing computer technology, helping to devise UNIVAC I. the first commercial electronic computer, and naval applications for COBOL (common-business-oriented language). In this black‑and‑white image, Admiral Grace Hopper sits at the UNIVAC I operator console, surrounded by three colleagues. She is positioned center‑right, with her hands likely resting on the machine's keyboard or control panel. Two men lean in from either side—one seated beside her and another standing behind—suggesting a collaborative atmosphere around the sizable, angled console. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/37/Grace_Hopper_and_UNIVAC.jpg

Talking with Machines: Computer Programming as Language

The proliferation of different types of computing machines in the 1950s enabled—or perhaps forced—the creation of programming languages.

By: Danny Robb

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#science #technology #computer_programming

OMG YES!!!!

YouTube video by Circuit Rewind Floppy Disk Archival Project

www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVxH...

NEW VIDEO!

The Floppy Archival Project

Working on backing up hundreds of floppy disks to @archive.org, but not only that, showing how to do the hardware/software setup so anyone can do the same going forward into the future.

Happy pride month! 🏳️‍🌈

Pride is about not just persisting, but taking life back from the fringes of society, thriving in spite of adversity. It isn't vanity; It's solidarity and defiance.

Sometimes protest, sometimes celebration, however the political pendulum swings, we remain.

Meet the Woman Who Made Vincent van Gogh Famous If it weren't for Johanna "Jo" van Gogh-Bonger, the world may have never seen Vincent Van Gogh's genius.

Meet the Woman Who Made Vincent van Gogh Famous

Post-Impressionist painter Vincent Van Gogh has long captivated the public's imagination, but did you know that his success isn't only due to his artistic prowess?

By Jessica Stewart

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#art #painting

LOL That is so cool and so sweet.

That was sweet of you to leave a treat for the driver.... -Pixie

And tell us all about the S2... we want one soooooo bad

Well he's a neo-nazi bigot, so brainpower is lacking severely.

Picture shows a solider carrying a rifle and marching in front of the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington Cemetery.

From Decoration Day to Memorial Day

Decoration Day started after the Civil War and eventually became Memorial Day.

Posted by: Neely Tucker

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#MemorialDay #civilwar

Grave of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington Cemetery, Washington, D. C.

✅ @archive.org has been verified by Bluesky.

The recording from yesterday's book talk for Live Dead is now available online: archive.org/details/live... 🌹💀

#GratefulDead

It's really weird to be a male-bodied system with male and female parts... cuz we don't fit in as "girls", but we're not "a guy" either. AND it's a LOT harder to pass as a guy than ppl would think...

-Chloe

An ancient star map (not the document analyzed in the new research) unearthed in Dunhuang, China, in the seventh century C.E. Public domain via Wikimedia Commons This is a detailed celestial chart drawn on a long scroll, part of a larger astronomical manuscript. The map features star positions organized into constellations, many labeled with Chinese characters. The stars are depicted as small black dots, often connected with lines to form recognizable asterisms, aligned along vertical and horizontal axes. This map is one of the oldest known graphical representations of the night sky, demonstrating advanced astronomical knowledge and the importance of celestial observation in Tang dynasty China.

These Scientists Say They’ve Identified the Oldest Known Star Chart in the World

By Sonja Anderson

www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/t...

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#history #astronomy

The Maya sacred calendar is called Tzolk’in in Yucatec Mayan and Chol Q’ij in K’iche’ Mayan. This calendar is not divided into months. Instead, it is made from a succession of 20 day glyphs in combination with the numbers 1 to 13, and produces 260 unique days. Multiplying 20 x 13 equals 260 days. This image illustrates how the numbers 1 to 13, cycle through the 20 glyphs to form dates in the Tzolk’in calendar. Any such combination, such as 1 Imix’, repeats only after 260 days have passed. The length of the Tzolk’in matches nine cycles of the Moon and the gestational period of humans. The Tzolk’in is also related to the movements of the zenith Sun and the growing cycle of corn. https://maya.nmai.si.edu/calendar/calendar-system#:~:text=The%20Maya%20sacred%20calendar%20is,x%2013%20equals%20260%20days.

What Is the Origin of the Calendar? The modern calendar borrows influences from a collective of early calendars such as the Jewish, the Babylonian, the Roman, and the Egyptian calendars.

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At PG:
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this calms me - just a guy scanning microfiche but wow reminds me of researching in college
see kids, we didn't have access to the net, we had to scrounge for data in old library rooms, but usually it was on microfiche
we didn't even have crummy dial up

omg i feel old

They are pretty either way... -Pixie

Congrats!!! :D

Defend the Internet Archive. Protect the Wayback Machine. Tell the music labels: Drop the 78s lawsuit. Sign our open letter on change.org

📢 The Internet Archive needs your help.

At a time when information is being rewritten or erased online, a $700 million lawsuit from major record labels threatens to destroy the Wayback Machine.

Tell the labels to drop the 78s lawsuit.

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i already made one last year (actually it was a random design lol) and the internet archive team loved it.

wall with one door: door wall with two doors: Mordor wall with no doors: Gondor

I will never apologize for a post

All that needs is a vault number on the skirt and collar flap. ;)

The mysterious Voynich manuscript has finally been decoded [UPDATED] History researcher says that it’s a mostly plagiarized guide to women’s health.

Not quite a mystery and "undecipherable" anymore.
arstechnica.com/science/2017...

That sounds like a daunting task. o.0 -Chloe

One of our favorite tech people came out as transgender. We wish her the best and a wonderful future and are proud of her bravery and courage to be her authentic self.

Are you going to try and save them all or just filter out things and delete them?

I'm not sure why Peter Mount chose Valentine's Day to upload 2,000 arcade game manuals but here we are.

archive.org/details/@pet...

All part of the "You will own nothing and like it" mentality. I hate that thinking and that push, fwiw. -Zor

If it is going to be renamed it should be the Gulf of North America, so it's inclusive... but the entire renaming thing is nonsense. -Zor

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