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Talking with Machines: Computer Programming as Language

The proliferation of different types of computing machines in the 1950s enabled—or perhaps forced—the creation of programming languages.

By: Danny Robb

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#science #technology #computer_programming
Grace Murray Hopper at the UNIVAC keyboard, c. 1960. Grace Brewster Murray: American mathematician and rear admiral in the U.S. Navy who was a pioneer in developing computer technology, helping to devise UNIVAC I. the first commercial electronic computer, and naval applications for COBOL (common-business-oriented language). In this black‑and‑white image, Admiral Grace Hopper sits at the UNIVAC I operator console, surrounded by three colleagues. She is positioned center‑right, with her hands likely resting on the machine's keyboard or control panel. Two men lean in from either side—one seated beside her and another standing behind—suggesting a collaborative atmosphere around the sizable, angled console. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/37/Grace_Hopper_and_UNIVAC.jpg
June 17, 2025 at 10:57 AM
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVxH...

NEW VIDEO!

The Floppy Archival Project

Working on backing up hundreds of floppy disks to @archive.org, but not only that, showing how to do the hardware/software setup so anyone can do the same going forward into the future.
Floppy Disk Archival Project
YouTube video by Circuit Rewind
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June 2, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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Happy pride month! 🏳️‍🌈

Pride is about not just persisting, but taking life back from the fringes of society, thriving in spite of adversity. It isn't vanity; It's solidarity and defiance.

Sometimes protest, sometimes celebration, however the political pendulum swings, we remain.
June 2, 2025 at 9:23 PM
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Meet the Woman Who Made Vincent van Gogh Famous

Post-Impressionist painter Vincent Van Gogh has long captivated the public's imagination, but did you know that his success isn't only due to his artistic prowess?

By Jessica Stewart

mymodernmet.com/johanna-van-...

#art #painting
Meet the Woman Who Made Vincent van Gogh Famous
If it weren't for Johanna "Jo" van Gogh-Bonger, the world may have never seen Vincent Van Gogh's genius.
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June 4, 2025 at 8:38 AM
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From Decoration Day to Memorial Day

Decoration Day started after the Civil War and eventually became Memorial Day.

Posted by: Neely Tucker

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#MemorialDay #civilwar

Grave of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington Cemetery, Washington, D. C.
Picture shows a solider carrying a rifle and marching in front of the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington Cemetery.
May 26, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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✅ @archive.org has been verified by Bluesky.
May 26, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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The recording from yesterday's book talk for Live Dead is now available online: archive.org/details/live... 🌹💀

#GratefulDead
May 23, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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It's really weird to be a male-bodied system with male and female parts... cuz we don't fit in as "girls", but we're not "a guy" either. AND it's a LOT harder to pass as a guy than ppl would think...

-Chloe
May 22, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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These Scientists Say They’ve Identified the Oldest Known Star Chart in the World

By Sonja Anderson

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Astronomy-History at PG:
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#history #astronomy
An ancient star map (not the document analyzed in the new research) unearthed in Dunhuang, China, in the seventh century C.E. Public domain via Wikimedia Commons This is a detailed celestial chart drawn on a long scroll, part of a larger astronomical manuscript. The map features star positions organized into constellations, many labeled with Chinese characters. The stars are depicted as small black dots, often connected with lines to form recognizable asterisms, aligned along vertical and horizontal axes. This map is one of the oldest known graphical representations of the night sky, demonstrating advanced astronomical knowledge and the importance of celestial observation in Tang dynasty China.
May 22, 2025 at 8:46 AM
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What Is the Origin of the Calendar? The modern calendar borrows influences from a collective of early calendars such as the Jewish, the Babylonian, the Roman, and the Egyptian calendars.

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The Maya sacred calendar is called Tzolk’in in Yucatec Mayan and Chol Q’ij in K’iche’ Mayan. This calendar is not divided into months. Instead, it is made from a succession of 20 day glyphs in combination with the numbers 1 to 13, and produces 260 unique days. Multiplying 20 x 13 equals 260 days. This image illustrates how the numbers 1 to 13, cycle through the 20 glyphs to form dates in the Tzolk’in calendar. Any such combination, such as 1 Imix’, repeats only after 260 days have passed. The length of the Tzolk’in matches nine cycles of the Moon and the gestational period of humans. The Tzolk’in is also related to the movements of the zenith Sun and the growing cycle of corn. https://maya.nmai.si.edu/calendar/calendar-system#:~:text=The%20Maya%20sacred%20calendar%20is,x%2013%20equals%20260%20days.
May 22, 2025 at 9:42 AM
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this calms me - just a guy scanning microfiche but wow reminds me of researching in college
see kids, we didn't have access to the net, we had to scrounge for data in old library rooms, but usually it was on microfiche
we didn't even have crummy dial up

omg i feel old
archive.org Internet Archive @archive.org · May 22
📄 The scanners are humming, the film is flowing.

The microfiche livestream is up—digitizing government docs in real time for Democracy’s Library.

Perfect second-screen vibes: Preservation in progress.

🕢 Live M-F, 7:30am–3:30pm PT (except U.S. holidays)
➡️ www.youtube.com/live/aPg2V5R...
lofi Archive radio 🎞️ beats to scan/read microfiche to
YouTube video by Internet Archive
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May 22, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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📢 The Internet Archive needs your help.

At a time when information is being rewritten or erased online, a $700 million lawsuit from major record labels threatens to destroy the Wayback Machine.

Tell the labels to drop the 78s lawsuit.

👉 Sign our open letter: www.change.org/p/defend-the...

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Defend the Internet Archive. Protect the Wayback Machine. Tell the music labels: Drop the 78s lawsuit. Sign our open letter on change.org
April 17, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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i already made one last year (actually it was a random design lol) and the internet archive team loved it.
April 15, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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I will never apologize for a post
wall with one door: door wall with two doors: Mordor wall with no doors: Gondor
March 19, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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One of our favorite tech people came out as transgender. We wish her the best and a wonderful future and are proud of her bravery and courage to be her authentic self.
February 22, 2025 at 2:02 AM
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I'm not sure why Peter Mount chose Valentine's Day to upload 2,000 arcade game manuals but here we are.

archive.org/details/@pet...
Internet Archive: Digital Library of Free & Borrowable Texts, Movies, Music & Wayback Machine
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February 15, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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Internet Archive preserves Flash games & provides access via browser emulation ⬇️
February 14, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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I had several GeoCities pages... it was a neat time in the internet and a great way to get a simple, small, free web page... it was cool, until Yahoo bought and killed it. -Zor
archive.org Internet Archive @archive.org · Feb 18
Remember GeoCities? 🏠 Once home to millions of personal websites, today it’s gone… except for what’s preserved on the Wayback Machine. 🌐💾

Explore the web's past with the #WaybackMachine ➡️ https://web.archive.org
Wayback Machine capture of the GeoCities.com site taken on October 22, 1996 alongside a pixel art frowning face representing that the site is gone.
February 20, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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Victorian ingenuity in every loop! 🧶 The Second Book of "Hows" (1900) offers knitting guidance for the home. Its photos & techniques are both timeless & telling of its era.

➡️ https://archive.org/details/krl00402941

#Knitting #VintageKnitting #HistoricKnitting #Needlework #InternetArchive
February 20, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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From “What Early Internet Era GIFs Show Us About Preserving Digital Culture,” by JD Shadel, part of the Vanishing Culture report.⁠ @jdshadel.com
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🔗 Download the full Vanishing Culture report⁠: archive.org/details/vani...
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🕳️ #VanishingCulture⁠
The image shows the cover of the Internet Archive's Vanishing Culture report. On the left, the words "Vanishing Culture" are prominently displayed in bold, dark font against a neutral background. To the right, a set of cultural artifacts including a VHS tape, an open book, a film reel, a vinyl record, and a web link icon appear to disintegrate into pixels, symbolizing the disappearance of analog and digital media. Below these icons is a pixelated computer hand cursor pointing to the word "SAVE," emphasizing the need for preservation. The Internet Archive's logo is placed in the bottom-right corner.
February 5, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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marywantsacookie.bsky.social Mary 🍪 @marywantsacookie.bsky.social · Jan 31
I'm a nominee in the Community Champions category (under Mary Stowe/marywantsacookie). Vote ❤️ bit.ly/votetghawards
February 5, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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Congrats "MOVING PICTURES AREN’T WHAT THEY USED TO BE" by Jeremy Floyd

Honorable Mention of the Internet Archive's 2025 Public Domain Day Film Remix Contest.

A tribute to Hollywood’s pre-Code era, full of creativity and charm.

➡️ https://archive.org/details/2025-public-domain-day-film-contest
February 2, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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Welcome to the public domain, ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT (1929) by Erich Maria Remarque. This masterpiece's portrayal of the human cost of war is timeless.
🌍💥 📖

Learn more. ➡️ https://blog.archive.org/2025/01/01/welcome-to-the-public-domain-in-2025

#PublicDomainDay #InternetArchive
Quote from Erich Maria Remarque's, All Quiet on the Western Front (1929), reads, "It’s all rot that they put in the war-news about the good humour of the troops, how they are arranging dances almost before they are out of the front-line. We don’t act like that because we are in a good humour: we are in a good humour because otherwise we should go to pieces." Quote framed by "Welcome to the Public Domain" text and graphic.
February 4, 2025 at 12:49 AM
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try this link 🔗 archive.org/details/lara...
Lara Gabrielle's Introduction And Discussion Of Meet John Doe (1941) - Public Domain Movie Night : Lara Gabrielle : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
For our sixth monthly public domain night, Internet Archive will host a screening of MEET JOHN DOE (1941), starring Barbara Stanwyck and Gary Cooper. Meet...
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February 4, 2025 at 6:02 PM