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What The Tech?! VHS & VCR

15 Jul 2024 7 minute read 10 comments Investigator515

In a digital world, it’s easy to forget how vital media storage once was If you aren’t a medium member, you can read with no paywall via substack As we’ve moved through our technical evolution, it's more than fair to say that we’ve seen substantial c...

THE SPARTAN-PERSIAN ALLIANCE, 413 - 411 BC: The Aegean Revolution

14 Jul 2024 24 minute read 2 comments YouveBeenGreeked

In the late summer of 413, the once seemingly invincible state of Athens, at the head of its Delian League, now saw its complete destruction on the horizon. Constant raids against their homeland, the deadliest plague in memory at the time, great defe...

Historical Hacks: The Target Breach

7 Jul 2024 4 minute read 0 comments Investigator515

Looking back in time at one of the largest retail attacks to occur From a security perspective, when you look back at a data breach or cyber security incident, there is often plenty of interesting data that are able to be reviewed to understand how t...

What The Tech?! Radar

1 Jul 2024 7 minute read 0 comments Investigator515

If you aren’t a medium member, you can read with no paywall via substack The early days of aviation provided plenty of excitement. Not only was humanity learning about aviation and aerodynamics, but as aircraft evolved and performance increased, even...

A peasant's house and a rich peasant's house on the basis of houses in the Silesian open-air museum

26 Jun 2024 1 minute read 1 comment madventure

The first house - the house of an ordinary peasant from the village of Istebna The history of these houses dates back to the mid-nineteenth century. Both were located in the small village of Istebna in the Beskidy Mountains. In one a normal pea...

Some notes about Prosvjeta 240623

23 Jun 2024 2 minute read 0 comments Vladan Lausevic

I want to write more about the history of Bildung and Bildungish ideas and practices in Bosnia and Herzegovina during 1890-1920. I am focusing on Prosvjeta (meaning education or enlightenment - Prosvjeta in Bosnian standard dialect, while Prosveta in...

The cyclical occupation of Moscow and the reformatting of society

21 Jun 2024 3 minute read 0 comments Ship Shard

Publication in Russian on the Zen bloghttps://dzen.ru/a/Zmlt9MR1uFY6iV3z The deep-seated belief in the Russian psyche that we are impervious to outside influences finds its roots in a selective interpretation of our history, particularly the 1940s. T...

Historical Hacks: The Citibank Hack (1994)

17 Jun 2024 5 minute read 0 comments Investigator515

This hack exploited dial-up and weak security to steal millions. If you aren’t a medium member, you can read with no paywall via substack We’ve talked much about how the earlier days of the internet were a very different time, especially with regard...

What The Tech: Nuclear Energy

15 Jun 2024 7 minute read 1 comment Investigator515

In today’s electronic world, it’s pretty easy to lose sight of how different things once were. We had the library before the internet, home phones before mobile devices and film before digital cameras. It’s sometimes easier to think of these as simpl...

Visiting Ousdale Broch - an Iron Age fort in Northern Scotland dating from around 2000-3000 years ago

13 Jun 2024 3 minute read 0 comments Hoosie

This is a copy of a post that I first made on the Hive Blockchain on 11/06/24 (link here to original post). I went back to the North of Scotland a few weeks ago, to take my Dad home, after he had been visiting us for a few days. I was born on the Nor...