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Shipwreck of Captain James Cook’s HMS Endeavour finally discovered after 250 years - The Brighter Side of News
https://www.thebrighterside.news/post/shipwreck-of-captain-james-cooks-hms-endeavour-finally-discovered-after-250-years/
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A history of the Internet, part 2: The high-tech gold rush begins - Ars Technica
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/06/a-history-of-the-internet-part-2-the-high-tech-gold-rush-begins/
The Web Era arrives, the browser wars flare, and a bubble bursts.
Buried under 2 kilometers of Antarctic ice, scientists find a 34-million-year-old lost world - The Brighter Side of News
https://www.thebrighterside.news/global-good/buried-under-2-kilometers-of-antarctic-ice-scientists-find-a-34-million-year-old-lost-world/
A world lost under 34 million years of ice recently discovered by scientists
Dead Reckoning
https://www.damninteresting.com/dead-reckoning/
The 18th century misadventures of HMS Wager and her reluctant crew
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Understanding the Origins and the Evolution of Vi & Vim
https://pikuma.com/blog/origins-of-vim-text-editor
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An Ars Technica history of the Internet. Part 1 - Ars Technica
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/04/a-history-of-the-internet-part-1-an-arpa-dream-takes-form/
In our new 3-part series, we remember the people and ideas that made the Internet.
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Modern magic unlocks Merlin's medieval secrets
https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/merlin-manuscript-discovered-cambridge
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Linux/4004 - Dmitry.GR
https://dmitry.gr/?r=05.Projects&proj=35.%20Linux4004
Dmitry.GR: Slowly booting full Linux on the intel 4004 for fun, art, and absolutely no profit
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Jason Chen and the Time Banana eBook : Richardson Duncan: Amazon.com.au: Kindle Store
https://www.amazon.com.au/Jason-Chen-Banana-Duncan-Richardson-ebook/dp/B0022NH402
Jason Chen and the Time Banana eBook : Richardson, Duncan: Amazon.com.au: Kindle Store
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OpenSSH Backdoors
https://blog.isosceles.com/openssh-backdoors/
Imagine this: an OpenSSH backdoor is discovered, maintainers rush to push out a fixed release package, security researchers trade technical details on mailing lists to analyze the backdoor code. Speculation abounds on the attribution and motives of the attacker, and the tech media pounces on the story. A near miss
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A wonderful coincidence or an expected connection: why π² ≈ g.
https://roitman.io/blog/91
Let’s take a brief trip back to our school years and recall some lessons in mathematics and physics. Do you remember what the number π equals? And what is π squared? That’s a strange question too. Of course, it’s 9.87. And do you remember the value of the acceleration due to gravity, g? Of course, that number was drilled into our memory so thoroughly that it’s impossible to forget: 9.81 m/s². Naturally, it can vary, but for solving basic school problems, we typically used this value.
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