"Upon the demise of LimeWire as a useful client, many people simply stopped using Gnutella altogther."
"In popular mythology, the impressive performances of America’s blacks, especially Owens, so infuriated Hitler that he refused to shake Owens’s hand after his victory in the 100-meter dash. It’s a good story, and one widely disseminated at the time to show that the Olympic spirit had triumphed over Nazi racism. The problem is, it never happened."
Nice article for Wikipedia's birthday. I was a guest editor and they mention my research.
The first 10k edits at Wiki have been resurrected. Cool!
October 16th! Should be fun!
Interesting model. I think I like how they're doing this. That said, I'm still not quite sure what they are doing.
Inventing the printing press is the easy part. Inventing the market for its products is tough.
Reminds me of kuru and laughing sickness.
Reminds me of kuru and laughing sickness.
Thomas Midgley, Jr. (May 18, 1889 – November 2, 1944), was an American mechanical engineer turned chemist. He developed both the tetra-ethyl lead (TEL) additive to gasoline and chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), and held over a hundred patents. While lauded at the time for his discoveries, today his legacy is seen as far more mixed considering the serious negative environmental impacts of these innovations. One historian remarked that Midgley "had more impact on the atmosphere than any other single organism in Earth's history."
Awesome write-up on the history of the Wikipedia logo by the author of the very very first version.
I really hate top 10 lists, but there's some cool stuff in here.
