History

Dan Carlin's Hardcore History & Revolutions are great history podcasts.

Notes

• If we've learned one thing from the last 2,500 years of human history, it's that all progress out of humanity's default state of misery and despair comes from being able to freely think, write, and argue.
• The past does not repeat itself, but it rhymes. - Mark Twain
• Who controls the past, controls the future. Who controls the present, controls the past.
• The idea of "return to tradition" is mostly fake. It's like getting back w an ex expecting that it will be the same. It's impossible to return to the past, the only way out is forward. We're not returning, we're forging a new, better future.

Links

• Walter Cronkite in the Home Office of 2001 (1967) - Pretty awesome to see how far we came.
• Museum of Websites
• What is Fascism?
• The Chernobyl Story in pictures
• Historical Edits of the USA Constitution in git (HN)
• Computer Archeology - Digging up old, forgotten computer systems and cracking open the code that ran on them.
• Russia costarted WW2
• The polygons of another world (2020)
• Folklore - Web site devoted to collective historical storytelling.
• Websites to spent countless hours on: folklore.org (2020)
• Wiby - Search engine for old internet pages.
• The Soul of a New Machine: Rethinking the Computer (2020)
• The History of the URL (2020) (HN)
• A secret call to Andy Grove that may have helped Apple buy NeXT (2018) (HN)
• When Einstein Was Just Another Physicist (HN)
• BBC Computer Literacy Project 1980 – 1989 (HN)
• The Putin Files: Julia Ioffe (2017)
• Ask HN: Computer Science/History Books? (2020)
• Astonishing Photos Of Soviet Life Found In An Abandoned House
• Cultures of programming - Understanding the history of programming through controversies and technical artifacts.
• Radical Solutions - French mathematician Évariste Galois lived a full life. When he wasn't trying to overthrow the government, he was reinventing algebra.
• Hardcore History Podcast (Overcast)
• 10 math history books
• NASA history books
• Awesome Computer History
• Computer History Museum videos
• Designing and programming computers history
• Vintage Byte Magazine Library - Captures the history of the entire personal computer industry from the early days (Sept 1975) through July 1998.
• The early days of home computing – in pictures
• Archive Today - Time capsule for web pages.
• Ask HN: What are some great posts or articles about history of computing? (2020)
• What We Can Learn From Software History
• Set of links related to computer & code history
• PastVu - Retro view of mankind's habitat.
• Ask HN: What website, from your early days on the net, do you miss? (2020)
• World History Crash Course
• Hitler was incompetent and lazy. And his Nazi government was an absolute clown show
• Above the Crowd - Lost Essays
• The Vintage Beauty Of Soviet Control Rooms (2018) (HN)
• Soviet propaganda posters (HN)
• Stories about the B5000 and people who were there (1979) (HN)
• Love letter to the Golden Age of Corporate Kitsch
• KGB Defector Yuri Bezmenov reveals Russian Subversion Tactics (1984)
• How 20 Famous Historical And Popular Figures looked like
• BBS Graphics History: Pretty awesome, until the web showed up (2020) (HN)
• Develop: Apple Technical Journal: Issue 10 (1992)
• The Soviet web: the tale of how the USSR almost invented the internet (2017) (HN)
• Stories and lessons from working with Jeff Bezos on the original Kindle (HN)
• Computer History Timeline
• Everyday Technology: Machines and the Making of India's Modernity
• A \$10B Experimental City Nearly Got Built in Rural Minnesota (2018) (HN)
• History of opposition to the civil rights movement
• MTV First Four Hours Remastered (1981)
• Oral History of Sophie Wilson 2012 Computer History Museum Fellow (2012) (HN)
• Rosatom releases previously classified documentary video of Tsar Bomba nuke test (HN)
• The NeWS Book - An Introduction to the Network/Extensible Window System (Lobsters)
• Ancient Earth Globe (HN)
• New Steve Jobs recordings from the '80s released (HN)
• Would it be possible to detect an industrial civilization in geological record? (2018) (HN)
• Before the Web: The 1980s Dream of a Free and Borderless Virtual World (2020)
• Asterisk (2020) (HN)
• United States Early Radio History (HN)
• Iron, How Did They Make It, Part IVb: Work Hardening, or Hardly Working? (2020) (HN)
• Look at the history of battle in popular culture Blog
• The Cold War’s unfinished legacy (2020)
• Welcome to the Old Internet Again (HN)
• Old Computer Podcasts - Find Shows About Computing's Past.
• Cities of the world at the beginning of the 20th century (and end of 19th century)
• If Sapiens were a blog post (2019)
• Reddit AskHistorians – Master History Book List
• Optimizing things in the USSR (2016) (HN) (Lobsters)
• The Big Lessons from History (2020) (HN)
• They Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 1933-45 (1955) (HN) (HN)
• Why Military History? (2020) (HN)
• The Best of NeXT Collection (HN)
• Native Intelligence (2005) (HN)
• Cemetery of Soviet computers
• 2020 In Photos: A Year Like No Other
• CHM (Computer History Museum)
• The 100 Year Computer (2020) (Lobsters)
• Historical facts I consistently forget (2020)
• WTF Happened In 1971? (HN)
• Jonathan Blow - Preventing the Collapse of Civilization (2019) (HN)
• Inequality Killed the Roman Republic (2021) (HN)
• Computer History Wiki
• Europe / History WWII - Holocaust, wedding rings found in Death Camp
• TSMC History
• I Love Reading 1980s Computer Magazines, and So Should You (2021)
• The Sámi on Camera (2021)
• History Today - Illustrated history magazine.
• The Why of technology (2021)
• What World War I Can Teach Us about Misjudging Tech and Social Change (2020) (HN)
• Who did the Anglo-Saxons think they were? (HN)
• The Cold War - OverSimplified
• A Brief History of Yesterday - Brief overview of yesterday's world events.
• Unlocking history through automated virtual unfolding of sealed documents imaged by X-ray microtomography (2021) (Code)
• How the ARPANET Protocols Worked (2021)
• Computing History Hub
• Computers and Creativity (2021)
• A History of Boats, Canals & Finance (2021) (Tweet)
• Priest says Hell is an invention of the church to control people with fear (2014) (Reddit)
• Computers by the Decade
• The Shape of Rome (2013) (HN)
• The Fallen of World War II - Data-driven documentary about war & peace.
• A Natural History of Beauty
• How the fall of the Roman empire paved the road to modernity (HN)
• What's your favorite piece of obsolete technology? (2021)
• Протесты немецких женщин на Розенштрассе
• Exclusive Photos Inside the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant (2021)
• What John von Neumann Did at Los Alamos (2020) (HN)
• Books to understand Middle East better (2021)
• Why Civilization Is Older Than We Thought (2021)
• Why Some Old Computers are Interesting
• We only ever talk about the third attack on Pearl Harbor (HN)
• Summarize the 2010-2020 period in the length of a tweet
• Vlogging Through History - YouTube
• HN: David Dushman, last surviving Auschwitz liberator, dies aged 98 (2021)
• OpenHistoricalMap (HN) (HN)
• Putting all your ancestors in a line and talking to them
• Why You Should Not Get a History PhD (HN)
• Why did we wait so long for the threshing machine? (2021) (Tweet)
• How to learn history in depth without university
• Podcasts on history and science (2021)
• The Bomber Mafia - A Story Set in War (2021)
• The Armchair Historian - YouTube
• Armchair History TV
• Ancient Rome in 20 minutes
• Ancient Greece in 18 minutes
• 29 incredible books about the past (2021)
• One Woman’s Mission to Rewrite Nazi History on Wikipedia (2021) (Tweet)
• How factories were made safe (2021) (HN)
• History of Botswana, where human life began
• Are there more surviving ancient writings in Greek or Latin? (2021) (HN)
• The Scholar's Stage - Place to discuss the intersections of history, politics, culture, behavioral science, and strategic thought—often with a focus on East and Southeast Asian affairs.
• Why are old things beautiful and new things ugly? (2015) (Tweet)
• Trends and fluctuations in the severity of interstate wars (2018)
• «Отец кристаллов», на долгие годы забытый на родине: история польского учёного, ускорившего цифровую революцию (2021)
• Human History Gets a Rewrite (2021) (HN)
• Evidence for European presence in the Americas in AD 1021 (HN) (Reddit)
• Apprentice to Genius: The Making of a Scientific Dynasty by Robert Kanigel (1993)
• The Gold Standard and the Great Depression (1997) (HN)
• Our ancestors may not have been rich, but they had an abundance of leisure (HN)
• Outline of history - Wikipedia
• The Myth of the West I (2021)
• History Matters - YouTube
• Oil, Power, and War: A Dark History by Matthieu Auzanneau (2015)
• Sergey Radchenko Twitter - Writes about history.
• Эпичная История - YouTube
• Humanizing Hitler - What Downfall is Really About (Film Analysis)
• Cold War Lessons and Fallacies for US-China Relations Today (2020)
• Cocaine Paraphernalia Ads in the 70s (HN)
• Rare Historical Photos
• Antigone - Open-access resources for the Classics-keen and curious. (Tweet)
• Science History Institute
• German Portraits / Photos from the Second World War
• Feature History - YouTube
• A History of Black Print (2020) (HN)
• Books on roots of western civilization
• Thread of Roman treasure, wartime intrigue, secrets, lies and obsession
• Gareth Harney - Celebrating the endless wonders of the Roman world.
• Wiki History Game
• Computer History
• Rare color photos from the Second World War, 1941-1945
• The black hole photographs: Unpublished images from America’s great depression (HN)
• Fall of Rome (HN)
• Timeline of the human condition - Milestones in evolution and history.
• Ask HN: Any recommendation for a good History of Science book? (2022)
• What’s the deal with the Saudi Arabia/Yemen War?
• Short History of Colonialism Since 1492 In One GIF
• Restoring the Old Way of Warming: Heating People, not Places (2015)
• Already in a world war (2022)
• Uchronia: The Alternate History List
• Whats a NSFW history fact that we don’t often hear about? (2022)
• Horrible mass killings in Gaza
• The Yemen conflict links (2022)
• Best books written by WW1 and WW2 veterans
• Alfred Eisenstaedt BBC Master Photographers (1983)
• The British Empire Was Much Worse Than You Realize (2022) (HN)
• When Mongols Set Out to Conquer the World, There Was One Limiting Factor: Grass (HN)
• A fresh take on why Octavian won the war against Antony and Cleopatra (2022)
• Twelve Insane Wars You’ve Never Heard Of
• Greatest pictures in history
• Alternate History Forum
• Which podcast, in your opinion, does a great job of historical storytelling while balancing historical accuracy and entertainment? (2022)
• Real Time History - YouTube
• Ask HN: Best way to learn about computing history (2022)
• Suez Crisis 1956
• Easy History - YouTube
• Why Did Hitler Invade The Soviet Union?
• ЗОЛОТО: История жадности / Простые вещи
• Visual Guide to the Aztec Pantheon (HN)
• Why wasn't the steam engine invented earlier? (HN)
• Logistics, How Did They Do It, Part I: The Problem (2022) (HN)