On this date in 1990, Tim Berners-Lee gave a presentation at CERN. The rest, they say, is history.
Happy 11th Birthday, WWW!
Yes, it’s the 10th birthday, not the 11th. The Web was ‘born’ on this day in 1990. The first birthday was in 1991.
Niel Bornstein writes to illuminate:
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Ummm, let’s count them up shall we?
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David Greenburg says that Pearl Harbor was the “JFK” of the GI generation. Just as many people deny Oswald acted alone, there were plenty of people then and now who claimed that the Imperial Japanese attack on Hawaii was a “plot” by FDR to get the US into WWII. Greenburg reports on the history of [...]
[ via Flutterby! ] The siege of Stalingrad makes D-Day look tame by comparison. No offense to the valiant heros who liberated Europe. The movie about the sniper hero of Stalingrad, “Enemy at the Gates,” facinated me. The interplay between the political officer and the sniper was that of the promoter and the star. Lawbuzz.com [...]
[ via Wunderland ] If 19th C. pundits were right, we’d all be utoptian, atheistic communists by now. Mark Rosenfelder takes us through the intellectual history of the 20th Century, where we gave up Fabian ideals for NeoConservatism.
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Have you eaten at Castro’s in NYC, seen Buster Keaton’s face on Mt. Rushmore, or been invited to attend a religous service in Tenochtitlan? The Alternate History Travel Guides will teall you what to expect, where to stay, and what customs you really shouldn’t break.
The site is a collection of ‘excerpts’ from travel guides from [...]
[ via KTVU TV ] In the opening years of the Cold War, the US Army deployed the Nike-Hercules anti-aircraft missile in batteries around the country. The missile would had been used to hit an inbound squadron of bombers with a nuclear airburst atop them. ICBMs and treaties rendered the missile obsolete. A group of [...]
A few years ago, I spent an awestruck afternoon driving through the National Battlefield Monument at Vicksburg, Mississippi. Every state who sent troops into the battle is represented with a monument somewhere on the field. A taped guide to the battlefield was helpful, but I wish I had read Ohio State Historian Mark Grimsley’s guide [...]
