Slashdot Items Tagged "history"

Date / Time Story
Tuesday December 19, 2023 @06:44PM Ministry of Justice Plans To Digitize Then Destroy 100 Million Historical Wills
Wednesday December 13, 2023 @07:30PM Google Maps Ditches Cloud-Based Location History
Thursday January 19, 2023 @10:07PM Pioneering Apple Lisa Goes 'Open Source' Thanks To Computer History Museum
Tuesday January 10, 2023 @09:47AM Modafinil's track record and history ( Modafinilrx )
Tuesday January 10, 2023 @09:21AM Australia Day: Facts, Meaning, History, Date, and Celebrations
Tuesday January 10, 2023 @09:10AM Chinese New Year(Lunar New Year) – Overview, Facts, History, and Tradition
Tuesday January 10, 2023 @09:04AM The History of Tractor Piston Rings
Friday January 06, 2023 @04:08PM How To Check The History of your Car by VIN
Friday January 06, 2023 @12:03PM THE NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM CAMBRIDGE: A HAVEN FOR NATURE LOVERS
Friday January 06, 2023 @11:43AM Exploring the Rich History of Sakleshpur Through Its Famous Historical Places
Friday January 06, 2023 @07:00AM Because of its history, Chikmagalur was given its current name
Friday January 06, 2023 @06:42AM Durham Castles: A Window Into England's Medieval History
Wednesday January 04, 2023 @03:53PM History of BJP – Bharatiya Janta Party Ideology and Symbol
Friday December 30, 2022 @07:59AM Moonstone Jewelry: Meaning, History, Origin, Healing benefits and Properties
Friday December 30, 2022 @07:59AM History of Tarot Reading
Thursday December 22, 2022 @09:17AM Varanasi- The City of History, Culture and Art
Friday December 16, 2022 @09:49AM Report on Cable Car and Ropeways Market CAGR Status, Report, History 2030
Friday December 16, 2022 @09:07AM The History and Progression of CPQ Cloud Computing
Wednesday November 30, 2022 @06:41AM What is a Non-US Citizen FBI Criminal History Report?
Wednesday November 30, 2022 @05:30AM Cosplay: Origin, History, and the World Cosplay Summit
Friday October 28, 2022 @08:31AM The Worst Phishing Attacks in History - Ways to Protect Yourself
Wednesday July 13, 2022 @04:37PM A Bored Chinese Housewife Spent Years Falsifying Russian History On Wikipedia
Thursday March 10, 2022 @11:02PM DeepMind AI Tool Helps Historians Restore Ancient Texts
Tuesday December 28, 2021 @07:21PM World's Oldest Family Tree Created Using DNA
Friday August 27, 2021 @04:38PM EU Agency Advises Against Using Search, Browsing History For Credit Scores
Thursday August 19, 2021 @04:25PM Your Credit Score Should Be Based On Your Web History, IMF Says
Monday August 09, 2021 @05:58PM Make Coal History Says PM Boris Johnson After UN Climate Report
Wednesday May 26, 2021 @05:41PM Enigmatic Designs Found in India May Be The Largest Images Ever Made by Human Hands
Wednesday April 14, 2021 @09:18PM China Launches Hotline To Report Online Comments That 'Distort' History or 'Deny' Its Cultural Excellence
Tuesday March 23, 2021 @04:31PM A Lego Replica of the Antikythera Mechanism
Friday January 01, 2021 @09:51PM Moon's Mysterious Disappearance 900 Years Ago Finally Gets An Explanation
Friday January 01, 2021 @09:47PM Scientists Unveil Largest 3D Map of the Universe Ever
Monday December 28, 2020 @08:28PM Early Apple Designs Revealed, Courtesy of Hartmut Esslinger
Thursday October 22, 2020 @08:22PM It's Official: Solar Is the Cheapest Electricity In History
Monday July 27, 2020 @03:33PM Huge Apparent Leak Unearths Nintendo's Prototype History
Friday May 22, 2020 @04:55PM It's Official: SpaceX Is a 'Go' To Launch NASA Astronauts On Crew Dragon Spaceship
Monday May 11, 2020 @04:31PM It Happened: Bitcoin Just Experienced Third Halving In Its History
Tuesday April 28, 2020 @08:34PM British Museum Makes 1.9 Million Images Available For Free
Monday February 17, 2020 @08:49PM Don't Use the Word 'Did' Or a Dumb Anti-Piracy Company Will Delete You From Google
Friday January 31, 2020 @06:25PM Lost World Revealed By Human, Neanderthal Relics Washed Up On North Sea Beaches
Thursday January 23, 2020 @05:52PM Scientists Re-Create Voice of 3,000-Year-Old Mummy
Tuesday January 21, 2020 @12:09AM New Research Provides Evidence of Strong Early Magnetic Field Around Earth
Wednesday January 15, 2020 @06:01PM Oldest Material On Earth Discovered
Wednesday December 18, 2019 @07:31PM Playing With Weapons Was a 'Normal' Part of Prehistoric Childhood, Study Finds
Tuesday December 17, 2019 @07:14PM DNA From 'Chewing Gum' Provides Clues To Life 5,700 Years Ago
Friday December 06, 2019 @06:10PM Early Humans Domesticated Themselves, New Genetic Evidence Suggests
Monday November 25, 2019 @11:48AM Why 536 Was 'the Worst Year To Be Alive'
Saturday September 21, 2019 @01:41PM Ask Slashdot: How Will 2019 Look To People 20 Years From Now?
Monday September 16, 2019 @07:25PM Milton's Notes On Shakespeare Appear To Have Been Found
Monday September 09, 2019 @07:44PM Scientists Discover New Evidence of the Asteroid That Killed Off the Dinosaurs
Wednesday July 31, 2019 @07:11PM How Sydney Destroyed Its Trams For Love of the Car
Sunday July 21, 2019 @01:14AM The Inventor Who Fought To Get Black Box Flight Recorders Into Every Plane
Thursday July 18, 2019 @06:48PM Google and Facebook Might Be Tracking Your Porn History, Researchers Warn
Thursday June 06, 2019 @05:05PM The Man Whose Bizarre Tank Designs Made the D-Day Victory Possible
Friday May 17, 2019 @07:45PM Google Uses Gmail To Track a History of Things You Buy -- and It's Hard To Delete
Wednesday April 10, 2019 @07:08PM New Human Species Found In Philippines
Friday March 01, 2019 @10:33PM Periodic Table Turns 150 Years Old
Sunday February 10, 2019 @02:15AM Ask Slashdot: Could Nikola Tesla's Wardenclyffe Tower Have Worked?
Thursday January 17, 2019 @09:05PM World's Oldest Periodic Table Chart Found At University of St Andrews In Scotland
Thursday January 17, 2019 @06:00PM Jack Bogle, the Man Who Revolutionized Investing, Dies At 89
Friday January 11, 2019 @07:05PM Marriott Faces Multiple Class-Action Lawsuits Over Hotel Reservation Data Breach
Thursday January 10, 2019 @12:13AM Blue Gems In Teeth Illuminate Women's Hidden Role In Medieval Manuscripts
Thursday January 03, 2019 @02:47AM China Successfully Lands Spacecraft On Far Side of the Moon
Sunday December 16, 2018 @05:06AM 50 Years On, We're Living the Reality First Shown At the 'Mother of All Demos'
Friday December 07, 2018 @08:46PM 'Great Dying': Rapid Warming Caused Largest Extinction Event Ever, Report Says
Friday November 09, 2018 @10:05PM What Does It Take To Keep a Classic IBM 1401 Mainframe Alive?
Sunday November 04, 2018 @12:26AM Old School 'Sniffing' Attacks Can Still Reveal Your Browsing History
Monday October 29, 2018 @10:18PM Civil Servant Watching Porn At Work Blamed For Government Malware Outbreak
Friday October 05, 2018 @05:48PM Instagram Tests Sharing Your Location History With Facebook
Monday August 20, 2018 @05:07PM Man Sues Over Google's 'Location History' Fiasco, Case Could Affect Millions
Sunday July 01, 2018 @09:05PM 500px Closes Its Photo Marketplace
Friday May 11, 2018 @10:28PM Scientists To Grow 'Mini-Brains' Using Neanderthal DNA
Thursday May 03, 2018 @07:30PM Forty Years of Spam Email
Wednesday April 04, 2018 @05:55PM Facebook Is Changing the Way It Stores Call, Text History
Monday February 26, 2018 @04:55PM Math Shows Some Black Holes Erase Your Past and Give You Unlimited Futures
Wednesday February 07, 2018 @09:02PM Key iPhone Source Code Gets Posted On GitHub
Tuesday January 30, 2018 @12:36AM AI May Have Finally Decoded the Mysterious 'Voynich Manuscript'
Monday January 15, 2018 @06:30PM 10 Years of the MacBook Air
Friday January 12, 2018 @10:37PM Why the World Only Has Two Words For Tea
Saturday January 06, 2018 @07:23PM Ancient DNA Reveals a Completely Unknown Population of Native Americans
Monday December 18, 2017 @08:52PM Scientists Confirm There Was Life On Earth 3.5 Billion Years Ago
Friday December 08, 2017 @06:42PM Sexual Harassment In Tech Is As Old As the Computer Age
Thursday December 07, 2017 @09:36PM Almost All Bronze Age Artifacts Were Made From Meteorite Iron
Sunday November 26, 2017 @03:07PM Computer Pioneer Geoff Tootill Passed Away
Friday November 10, 2017 @09:15PM ESR Sees Three Viable Alternatives To C
Sunday October 29, 2017 @06:25PM Hewlett-Packard Historical Archive Destroyed In California Fires
Friday October 27, 2017 @12:42PM Einstein's Note On Happiness, Given To Bellboy In 1922, Fetches $1.6 Million
Sunday October 22, 2017 @03:38PM 30-Year-Old Operating System 'PC-MOS/386' Finally Open Sourced
Monday October 09, 2017 @05:23PM Equifax Made Salary, Work History Available To Anyone With Your SSN and DOB
Saturday September 23, 2017 @12:30AM Memorial Set For 'Pi Day' Creator
Friday September 22, 2017 @01:08PM This Guy Is Digitizing the VHS History of Video Games
Saturday September 09, 2017 @01:44AM Linux Pioneer SUSE Marks 25 Years In the Field
Friday September 08, 2017 @09:59PM SciFi Author (and Byte Columnist) Jerry Pournelle Has Died
Wednesday September 06, 2017 @09:45AM Lost Languages Discovered in One of the World's Oldest Continuously Run Libraries
Saturday September 02, 2017 @01:02PM 60,000 Germans Evacuate While Officials Try To Defuse a WWII Bomb
Saturday August 26, 2017 @11:54AM Ancient Tablet Reveals Babylonians Discovered Trigonometry
Sunday August 20, 2017 @12:33PM 'Wing Commander' Music Composer Runs Kickstarter Campaign
Saturday August 19, 2017 @04:38PM Paul Allen Finds Long-Lost World War II Cruiser, the USS Indianapolis
Sunday August 06, 2017 @11:12PM Why Steve Jobs Loved the IPod Shuffle
Saturday August 05, 2017 @07:49PM It's the 40th Anniversary of Radio Shack's TRS-80
Wednesday August 02, 2017 @06:29PM Verizon's New Rewards Program Lets It Track Your Browsing History
Saturday July 22, 2017 @02:36PM Kickstarter Campaign Launched To Save NASA's Mission Control
Saturday July 15, 2017 @09:16PM Vintage SciFi Magazine 'Galaxy' Preserved Online - And Hopefully Also SoundCloud
Saturday July 15, 2017 @03:15PM Scrap Dealer Finds Apollo-Era NASA Computers In Dead Engineer's Basement
Sunday July 09, 2017 @12:14AM 48-Year-Old Multics Operating System Resurrected
Sunday July 02, 2017 @06:21PM New Research Explodes Myths About Ada Lovelace
Saturday June 17, 2017 @12:08PM Xerox Alto Designer, Co-Inventor Of Ethernet, Dies at 74
Monday June 12, 2017 @07:59PM Someone Built a Tool To Get Congress' Browser History
Wednesday June 07, 2017 @02:39PM Oldest Fossils of Homo Sapiens Found in Morocco, Altering History of Our Species
Sunday June 04, 2017 @04:23PM Jean Sammet, Co-Designer of COBOL, Dies at 89
Saturday June 03, 2017 @08:27PM ESR Shares A Forgotten 'Roots Of Open Source' Moment From 1984
Wednesday May 31, 2017 @01:30AM DNA From Ancient Egyptian Mummies Reveals Their Ancestry
Friday April 28, 2017 @06:45PM Computer Pioneer Harry Huskey Dies At Age 101
Friday April 21, 2017 @05:47PM Britain Set For First Coal-Free Day Since Industrial Revolution
Thursday April 20, 2017 @07:57AM Discovery May Help Decipher Ancient Inca String Code
Wednesday April 19, 2017 @04:10PM Ask Slashdot: What Are Good Books On Inventing, Innovating and Doing R&D?
Saturday April 15, 2017 @02:22PM RIP, Robert Taylor, The Innovator Who Shaped Modern Computing
Saturday April 15, 2017 @01:46AM Ask Slashdot: What Was Your First Home Computer?
Sunday April 09, 2017 @07:49PM Celebrating '21 Things We Miss About Old Computers'
Saturday April 08, 2017 @10:09PM Die-Hard Sysops Are Resurrecting BBS's From The 1980s
Tuesday March 28, 2017 @09:56PM World's Largest Dinosaur Footprints Discovered In Western Australia
Wednesday March 15, 2017 @01:11PM Google Tells Army of 'Quality Raters' To Flag Holocaust Denial
Tuesday March 14, 2017 @10:48AM This Is How the Number 3.14 Got the Name 'Pi'
Tuesday February 28, 2017 @06:04PM Why Your Boss Will Crush Your Innovative Ideas
Thursday February 23, 2017 @05:06PM Study Reveals Bot-On-Bot Editing Wars Raging On Wikipedia's Pages
Tuesday February 21, 2017 @05:14PM The Only Thing, Historically, That's Curbed Inequality: Catastrophe
Tuesday February 21, 2017 @04:59PM Cellphones As a Fifth-Order Elaboration of Maxwell's Theory
Friday February 10, 2017 @02:41PM Apple Fails To Remove 'Deleted' Safari Web Browser Histories From iCloud
Monday February 06, 2017 @04:47PM US Navy Decommissions the First Nuclear-Powered Aircraft Carrier
Tuesday January 31, 2017 @02:00AM Why An LSD High Lasts For So Long
Thursday January 26, 2017 @11:44PM Software Engineers Are the Heroes of New Computer History Museum Exhibit
Friday January 13, 2017 @09:35PM Moon Express Raises $20 Million In Series B-1, Fully Funds Trip To The Moon
Saturday December 31, 2016 @05:20PM Let's Raise A Glass To The Many Tech Pioneers Who Died In 2016
Saturday December 31, 2016 @12:13AM Can Learning Smalltalk Make You A Better Programmer?
Thursday December 29, 2016 @05:53PM Satellite Spots Massive Object Hidden Under the Frozen Wastes of Antarctica
Thursday December 22, 2016 @04:56PM Wikipedia Announces the Most Edited Articles of 2016
Saturday December 17, 2016 @04:28PM RIP Dr. Henry Heimlich, Inventor of the Heimlich Maneuver
Friday December 09, 2016 @11:48PM FBI Relents, Confirms Previously-Denied UFO Investigation
Wednesday December 07, 2016 @06:21PM Earth's Day Lengthens By Two Milliseconds a Century, Astronomers Find
Sunday December 04, 2016 @09:22PM Ask Slashdot: Have You Read 'The Art of Computer Programming'?
Friday November 18, 2016 @09:55PM Intel's 4004 Microprocessor Turns 45
Sunday November 13, 2016 @08:39PM 'Radioactive Boy Scout' Reportedly Passes Away At Age 39
Sunday November 13, 2016 @12:28AM Java's Open Sourcing Still Controversial Ten Years Later
Saturday November 12, 2016 @12:15AM Re-Discovering The 'Lost Civilization' of Dial-Up BBS's
Friday November 11, 2016 @09:02PM Uranium-Filled 'Lost Nuke' Missing Since 1950 May Have Been Found
Thursday November 10, 2016 @06:42PM November 14th Supermoon Will Be Biggest In 68 Years
Monday November 07, 2016 @09:16PM Slashdot Asks: Is It Time To Dump Time Zones In Favor of Coordinated Universal Time?
Sunday November 06, 2016 @10:02PM Gawker Pays $750,000 To That Guy Who Didn't Invent Email
Saturday October 29, 2016 @08:46PM Red Hat CEO: Linux Is Now The 'Default Choice' For The Cloud
Friday October 28, 2016 @10:43PM Archive.org Celebrates Its 20th Anniversary
Saturday October 08, 2016 @10:30PM After 22 Years, 386BSD Gets An Update
Tuesday October 04, 2016 @02:57AM Researchers Restore the First Recording of Computer-Generated Music
Sunday October 02, 2016 @11:44PM Vint Cerf Warns About the Perishability Of Human Knowledge
Saturday October 01, 2016 @04:54PM Fake Cellphone Emergency Alerts About Zombies and Nuclear Attacks Predicted
Sunday September 25, 2016 @07:03PM What Vint Cerf Would Do Differently
Monday September 19, 2016 @07:49PM NASA: Arctic Sea Ice 2nd-Lowest On Record
Sunday September 18, 2016 @01:15PM Emacs 25.1 Released With Tons Of New Features
Monday September 12, 2016 @07:56PM MIT Invented A Camera That Can Read Closed Books
Sunday September 11, 2016 @03:07AM DNA Confirms Cause of 1665 London's Great Plague
Thursday September 01, 2016 @04:15PM World's Oldest Fossils Found In Greenland
Sunday August 28, 2016 @03:06PM Welcome To 1986: Inside 'Halt And Catch Fire's' High-Tech Time Machine
Sunday August 28, 2016 @12:56AM RIP John Ellenby, Godfather of the Modern Laptop
Monday August 22, 2016 @07:31PM New Mexico Nuclear Accident Ranks Among the Costliest In US History
Saturday August 13, 2016 @06:55PM The Rise and Fall of the Gopher Protocol
Sunday August 07, 2016 @03:32PM Scientist Who Sparked 'A Revolution in Chemistry' Dies at 70
Saturday August 06, 2016 @07:45PM Ask Slashdot: What Should a Children's Computer Museum Look Like?
Saturday August 06, 2016 @02:54PM The World's First Web Site Celebrates 25 Years Online
Friday July 22, 2016 @04:04PM Apple: Pokemon Go Sets Record For Most Downloads In Its First Week
Thursday July 21, 2016 @06:33PM McDonald's 'Make Burger History' Site Hijacked With Offensive Burger Ideas
Monday July 18, 2016 @05:03PM Hacking Group 'OurMine' Claims Credit For Attack On Pokemon Go Servers
Monday July 11, 2016 @05:29PM PSA: Pokemon Go Has Full Access To Your Google Account Data
Sunday July 10, 2016 @11:20AM Is A Rational Nation Ruled By Science A Terrible Idea?
Friday July 08, 2016 @05:09PM George Takei Opposes Gay Sulu In 'Star Trek Beyond'
Tuesday July 05, 2016 @06:01AM Historic Route 66 To Feature Solar Road Technology
Wednesday June 29, 2016 @07:59PM Scientists Say The Asteroid That Killed The Dinosaurs Almost Wiped Us Out Too
Monday June 27, 2016 @04:17PM President Obama Should Pardon Edward Snowden Before Leaving Office
Friday June 24, 2016 @05:35AM BBC: UK Votes To Leave The European Union
Thursday June 23, 2016 @02:24AM Computer Simulations Point To the Source of Gravitational Waves
Monday June 13, 2016 @04:55PM FBI Director Comey: 'Highly Confident' Orlando Shooter Radicalized Through Internet
Tuesday June 07, 2016 @12:54AM Password Autocorrect Without Compromising Security
Thursday June 02, 2016 @01:20AM Bill Gates: AI Is The 'Holy Grail'
Friday May 27, 2016 @01:57AM Mars Is Coming Out Of An Ice Age
Sunday May 15, 2016 @06:35PM History Buffs Discover Inaccuracies In Battlefield 1 Trailer
Saturday May 14, 2016 @01:38PM Ask Slashdot: What Was The Greatest Era Of Innovation?
Saturday May 07, 2016 @03:29PM Researchers Are Reconstructing Babbage's Analytical Engine
Wednesday May 04, 2016 @05:23PM 'Largest Recall In American History': Takata To Recall Nearly 70 Million Airbags
Tuesday May 03, 2016 @04:46PM Slashdot Asks: What Do You Think Is The Most Influential Gadget Of All Time?
Friday April 29, 2016 @09:53PM Bison To Become First National Mammal Of The US
Friday April 22, 2016 @05:14PM Earth Day: 175 Nations Sign Historic Paris Climate Deal
Thursday April 21, 2016 @05:45PM RIP Prince, A Legendary Musician With A Complicated Internet History
Wednesday April 20, 2016 @03:54PM US Treasury To Feature Harriet Tubman On $20 Bill
Wednesday March 30, 2016 @10:00AM Slaughter At The Bridge: Uncovering A Colossal Bronze Age Battle
Friday March 25, 2016 @09:03PM Is Old Tech Putting Banks Under Threat Of Extinction?
Friday March 25, 2016 @08:37PM Saturn's Moons and Rings May Be Younger Than The Dinosaurs
Tuesday March 22, 2016 @10:16AM The Irish Not of Celtic Origin?
Monday March 21, 2016 @05:35PM Scientists: What We're Doing To The Earth Has No Parallel In 66 Million Years
Monday March 21, 2016 @03:12PM Obama Lands In Cuba As First US President To Visit In Nearly A Century
Friday March 18, 2016 @11:35PM What Lies Beneath: The First Transatlantic Communications Cables
Wednesday March 16, 2016 @02:11PM How Far Have We Come With HTTPS? Google Turns On the Spotlight
Tuesday March 08, 2016 @05:22PM This Was America's Warmest Winter On Record