The History of the Dot Com Era
I graduated from college in 1997. While at college, the Netscape IPO, Yahoo IPO, eBay IPO, and Amazon IPO all happened. When I graduated, I couldn’t wait to go join this incredible time and be part of creating the next future of the internet. I moved to Seattle and joined a private company called Progressive […]
The History of Karate
Nippon Budokan, in Tokyo, is a revered center for budo, or Japanese martial arts. Steps away from some of the busiest avenues of the hyperkinetic city, a pedestrian road leads past the stone fortress walls and tree-lined moats of the Imperial Palace into the forests of Kitanomaru Park, a natural refuge first landscaped for the […]
The Long History of ’Bombay Time’ and Resistance to Colonial Rule
In 1878, Bombay University completed construction on a dazzling addition to the colonial city’s skyline: a 280-foot clock tower. Built in the Venetian Gothic style, the Big Ben–inspired structure was the tallest at the time in the city that would come to be known as Mumbai, with clock faces in each direction. It was right […]
An Oral History of the L0pht (2018)
In the beginning, there was a hat factory. Factory is probably too grand a word for it, but the space that would eventually become the first home of L0pht Heavy Industries began as the location of a hat-making business. The second-floor spot in a building in Boston’s South End was where the wives of two […]
A History of The Rochester, NY Camera and Lens Companies (1974)
by Rudolf Kingslake Source: Kingslake, Rudolf, 1974, ”The Rochester Camera and Lens Companies”, Rochester NY, Photographic Historical Society. This is a most complicated story spanning almost 100 years, and I find that it is often difficult to discover what actually did happen, and to sort out the numerous changes of name, and acquisitions, and […]
A Hole in the Head: A History of Trepanation
A survey of trepanation, or trephination, the oldest surgical procedure known to humanity. A detail of a 17th-century naval surgeon’s trephination kit. The trephines are very similar to both ancient Roman and modern ones. By: Charles G. Gross In 1865, in the ancient Inca city of Cuzco, Ephraim George Squier, explorer, archeologist, ethnologist and U.S. […]
When Pop History Bombs: A Response to Malcolm Gladwell
THERE’S A RICH IRONY that Malcolm Gladwell’s new book is spun off from episodes of his Revisionist History podcast. Ostensibly a meditation on the morality of bombing civilians during World War II, The Bomber Mafia is anything but revisionist. It’s indeed hard to imagine a more conventional account of the air war against Japan. In […]
History of ZFS and how OpenZFS was born
This is part of our article series published as “History of OpenZFS”. Subscribe to our article series to find out more about the secrets of OpenZFS From its birth at Sun, ZFS grew exponentially in popularity. Many were impressed by its revolutionary features, and ported it to run on their systems. They were able to […]
History of Techno
Mark Ernestus, founder of record shop Hard Wax, was also instrumental in bringing the Detroit sound to the German capital. The shop was and still is one of the most respected outlets for techno in Europe, if not the world. As Basic Channel, Ernestus and Moritz von Oswald pioneered the dub techno sound. Cuts like […]
Deep dive in CORS: History, how it works, and best practices
The error in your browser’s console# No ‘Access-Control-Allow-Origin’ header is present on the requested resource. Cross-Origin Request Blocked: The Same Origin Policy disallows reading the remote resource at https://example.com/ Access to fetch at ‘https://example.com’ from origin ‘http://localhost:3000’ has been blocked by CORS policy. I am sure you’ve seen one of these errors, or a variation, […]