#history

https://blog.mozilla.org/en/internet-culture/deep-...

Interesting little dig into design history.

https://www.buzzfeed.com/hayleycampbell/when-doves...

The story of a typeface literally being resurrected from the mud of the Thames. Brilliant.

https://kottke.org/19/03/a-map-of-the-internet-fro...

This is a wonderful bit of history.

http://www.hakaimagazine.com/article-long/no-wool-...

Fascinating write up of the role of wool in viking civilisation.

http://spitalfieldslife.com/2016/03/09/the-old-riv...

The Thames, around 1870 to 1920. Lovely.

http://yahoo.tumblr.com/post/98474044364/progress-...

I am internet-old enough to remember when the Yahoo directory was the best way to find websites on t...

http://listverse.com/2014/02/04/10-evil-crimes-of-...

Just, you know, in case anyone was wondering why I'm not a fan of our current administration: they a...

http://zachholman.com/posts/only-90s-developers/

And boy, do I remember some of these. The twitching has almost stopped...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-25776836

Given how politicised/triumphalist the coverage of the conflict is, with the centenary coming up, I...

http://www.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/~zierke/bello...

This is a superb resource for the history of the songs performed by the above named. Proper English...

http://ask.metafilter.com/217597/Has-LA-changed-si...

A hundred-year history of LA. Makes the place sound interesting.

http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/3613

The Internet Underground Music Archive is back. It's, ah, a bit trial and error, but basically, the...

http://enfolding.org/cross-bones-queering-sacred-s...

I imagine that most of the London nerds reading this are already aware of Cross Bones graveyard - th...

http://www.oldmapsonline.org/#bbox=-0.618252,51.30...

A really, truly lovely bit of google maps work. pick an area out with google maps, see the old maps...

http://waldo.jaquith.org/blog/2011/12/impractical-...

One of those things that no-one stops to think about. We think about how the world changes in ways...