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I was a gradeschool student in the nineties, and I just want to close the loop for you. All of us young people knew those bendy, half-plastic, scratchy-lead pencils were trash. (Th…

You didn't have a router with dialup, or early DSL, where the modem was a separate device. You'd often get publicly routable IPv4s in your university dorm, too. See also napster. :…

Just amazing. I had a need for something like this but wound up building it out in Mathesar. That, too, is an amazing project, but my business logic has to remain separate. Jeepers…

Newton's Rings. Anti-newton glass is frosted, loses resolution. Professional drum scanners would immerse the film in mineral oil. Epson used to ship a kit for their flatbeds. Popul…

There is a scene near the end where their dealer/friend/squatter rolls an enormous, conical joint, which he calls a "Camberwell Carrot." I'm not from the UK and have been dying to …

See also these internet-historical gems from everything2: Uberman's sleep schedule - every 4 hours, sleep 20 minutes. https://everything2.com/title/Uberman%2527s+Sleep+Schedule Eve…

Diku and most (all?) other MUDs were "BSD" socket-based. Windows did not even ship with a sockets layer (winsock) until 1994, with Windows NT 3.5, and it made its way to consumers …

Hee hee. But it is Farnsworthed, the default 40 WPM is quite spaced out!

Worth noting that the movement to drop morse code, "No-code International," was spearheaded by none other than K6BP. Bruce Perens, one of our own!

In absolute terms, probably, but some are declaring a renaissance associated with the increasing popularity in portable operation. Summits On The Air (SOTA) in particular favors li…

"Just prior to welding the plutonium surfaces are cleaned in the inert atmosphere of the welding box to remove oxide and foreign material. If the oxide film is light, it can be rem…

If you like this, you are sure to love Jacob Tonski's "Balance from Within," a 170-year-old couch outfitted with reaction wheels so that it stands up improbably on one leg. Eventua…