Friend of CHNM, Stan Katz provides some perspective on The Emergence of the Digital Humanities in his excellent Chronicle of Higher Education “Brainstorm” column.
Timelines.tv presents 1000 years of British history through a series of film clips organized along three parallel and interlinked timelines, one each for social, political, and national (English, Irish, Welsh, Scottish) history. […]
Entries Tagged as 'History of Technology'
Briefly Noted for April 8, 2008
April 8th, 2008 · No Comments
Tags: Briefly Noted · Digital Humanities · History of Technology · Timelines · Video
Briefly Noted for March 27, 2008
March 27th, 2008 · No Comments
The D&D crowd at MIT pays tribute to the late Gary Gygax with a large 20-sided die in Killian Court.
Cartridge Save, a British ink and toner retailer posts a surprisingly in-depth history of print on its corporate blog. Yet again we find that history is good for sales.
Tags: Art · Briefly Noted · Gaming · History of Technology · Hobbies · Marketing · Memory
Briefly Noted for March 11, 2008
March 11th, 2008 · 2 Comments
How to make a Leyden jar out of a two-liter Coke bottle, from MAKE Magazine.
Top Ten Moments in Sitcom History. I think you’d have to put Lucy and Ethel’s stint at the conveyor belt at the top of the table, but a good list nevertheless. (Thanks, Jerm.)
Prolific “junior ranger” Chance Finegan on the history of […]
Tags: Briefly Noted · History of Technology · Hobbies · Humor · Local History · Management · Television · Tops of All Time
Netscape RIP
February 25th, 2008 · No Comments
So long Netscape. You were a good friend (for a while). Though official support for the first widely used web browser ends next week, Netscape’s hapless stewards at AOL have kindly left us a lasting(?) memorial. The Netscape Archive offers a brief history of the browser and a download page for discontinued […]
Tags: History of Technology · Mozilla · Tools
Briefly Noted for February 22, 2008
February 22nd, 2008 · 2 Comments
(my) History of Technology by Verie Sandborg. A retiree’s recollections of a lifetime with personal technology.
Roots Television. User-generated genealogy videos. Interesting, but too many ads.
Technica. An archive of lego history, including early advertisements, a numbered set listing, and an extensive timeline.
Tags: Artifacts · Biography · Briefly Noted · Genealogy · History of Technology · Hobbies · Memory · Timelines · Video
