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Brian Carnell
Personal blog · brian.carnell.comhistoryculture
Brian Carnell's personal blog at brian.carnell.com covers history and culture. Since 2010, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (6) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link Brian Carnell's articles as sources for tech and language history, such as the Apple II disk drive, the etymology of 'computer', and Texas slavery narratives. Some links are bare or offered as asides.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 6 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
What Hacker News says?
"...and the hits just keep on coming." https://brian.carnell.com/articles/2017/fisher-price-soul-cr...
Comment linking /articles/2017/fisher-price-soul-crushing-meeting-toy/
on “Fisher Price Chatter Telephone with Bluetooth”https://brian.carnell.com/wiki/texas_slavery_narratives_part... Fascinating story.. you know it happened but it's weird to read it and imagine it was absolutely real.
Comment linking /wiki/texas_slavery_narratives_part_2
on “Juneteenth in Photos”I've toyed with that idea ever since WinerWatcher [1] , even started a repo or two, but nobody in my circle of friends seemed to believe in it, so I dropped it. More or less like it happened with any personal project I've ever started since 1999... [1] http://brian.carnell.com/articles/2003/mark-pilgrims-winer-w...
Comment linking /articles/2003/mark-pilgrims-winer-watcher/
on “New York Times silently edits its "lost all credibility" line”Computer has a longer history than what you think. "The first known use of the word “computer” was in 1613 in a book called The Yong Mans Gleanings by English writer Richard Braithwait: “I haue read the truest computer of Times, and the best Arithmetician that euer breathed, and he reduceth thy dayes into a short number.”" https://brian.carnell.com/articles/2015/the-etymology-of-the...
Comment linking /articles/2015/the-etymology-of-the-word-computer/
on “The Guardians of the French Language Are Deadlocked”> The big storage breakthrough came in 1977 when Apple introduced the Apple II, its first mass-produced computer. It came with two 5-¼ inch floppy drives. Not quite. The Disk II Interface Card wasn't available till 1978. It supported two drives. But the card and drives were options. A couple ads re-affirming my memory: https://brian.carnell.com/articles/2021/apple-ii-ad-1978/ https://i.pinimg.com/originals/d9/92/81/…
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on “The Floppy Disk (2011)”Reminds me of a shirt one of my friends has: 3 arms, bent in the position of the arrows of the recycle logo, with the words of "Reduce, Reuse, Reanimate". Support your local necromancer :) http://brian.carnell.com/articles/2010/reduce-reuse-reanimat... It also helps since I'm also a witch :)
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on “Installing Linux on a dead Badger”
