Gregor J. Rothfuss

Tag: #history (572 posts)

October 10, 2026: Display Memory Tradeoffs
October 2, 2026: Iron and Bronze Collapse
September 28, 2026: Commerce vs Extraction in City Formation
September 23, 2026: Celtic Sword Metallurgy
September 23, 2026: The History of Fishes
September 22, 2026: Bologna Porticoes and Air Rights
September 21, 2026: Cosmic Hunt
September 18, 2026: Cavity Magnetron
September 8, 2025: Modular Diner Preservation
July 4, 2025: Neanderthal Culinary Traditions
June 8, 2025: Pleistocene Siberian Dispersal
December 20, 2024: Negative Food Pairing Networks
November 8, 2024: Recent Literacy Selection
October 16, 2024: French Wine Phylloxera
June 4, 2024: Meiji Modernization Architecture
February 17, 2022: Lost Literature
January 23, 2022: Birth certificates
November 22, 2021: Payday
October 20, 2021: 1021
October 11, 2021: Radioactivity & deep time
October 11, 2021: Glasses history
August 26, 2021: Roman Food Dimorphism
August 6, 2021: First Applied Geometry
July 9, 2021: Link Rot
July 2, 2021: Bass Reeves
June 23, 2021: Antarctica in 650?
May 10, 2021: Tiberius, Imperial Detective
April 24, 2021: Tetris revolution
April 13, 2021: Last Egypt papyrus makers
April 6, 2021: The Musical Human
February 18, 2021: The Paul Graham story
February 12, 2021: NYC Gems
January 28, 2021: Rome in 3D
January 16, 2021: Orphan Vaccine Carriers
January 13, 2021: Vastly faster vaccine rollout
December 28, 2020: New forms of community
December 28, 2020: Game of Life at 50
December 4, 2020: Ancient Egyptian
December 3, 2020: Nuclear Powered Vehicles
December 3, 2020: 33 ka Mexico
December 3, 2020: Ancient steam engines
November 19, 2020: Military gear over time
November 11, 2020: Apple Differentiation
November 8, 2020: Charts & Graphs
October 26, 2020: Disease naming
October 17, 2020: Iconoclasm explained
October 3, 2020: Leeskarte
September 22, 2020: China civilization origins
September 3, 2020: 72 Years of Ikea Catalogs
September 1, 2020: Westminster Abbey triforium
August 23, 2020: 5 ka BP brewing
August 11, 2020: What made the Vikings tick?
August 10, 2020: Wine Windows
August 10, 2020: macintosh.js
June 21, 2020: Ettore Majorana
June 21, 2020: Por-Bajin
June 6, 2020: Scifi inventions timeline
May 28, 2020: Carbon dating recalibration
May 28, 2020: Tally stick
May 13, 2020: Coal sun?
May 2, 2020: Lunar
March 22, 2020: Prince of Persia history
March 21, 2020: Censorship History
March 7, 2020: Hagia Sophia Music
March 1, 2020: Zip History
February 29, 2020: 37 ka Australian legend
February 28, 2020: Romulus shrine?
February 21, 2020: Bridging time
February 17, 2020: Ancient Games
February 6, 2020: Improving historical footage
February 4, 2020: CSS history
January 14, 2020: NextStep history
January 5, 2020: Napoleon’s Rome
December 12, 2019: Troy story
December 3, 2019: Primitive Technology
November 28, 2019: Gorbachev Pizza
November 20, 2019: Great Pyramid in 2560 BCE
November 6, 2019: NYC Megaprojects
November 5, 2019: Paris in 1900
October 13, 2019: 60K new Mayan sites
October 7, 2019: Paris Through History
October 7, 2019: 5 True Tales of Manhattan
September 23, 2019: Unix at 50
September 22, 2019: History of light beer
September 20, 2019: Out of Africa 2.5 ma ago?
September 5, 2019: Ages Of Discord
July 25, 2019: Archaeology of the 99%
July 18, 2019: The Birth of House Music
July 17, 2019: Peter Saville
July 12, 2019: The Rugged Road
July 11, 2019: Treadmill Punishment
July 11, 2019: Modeling Evolution
July 9, 2019: Mittani Palace
June 28, 2019: New Era of Political Reform?
June 27, 2019: Jony Ive Design Legacy
June 25, 2019: Mayan Civil War?
June 24, 2019: Chain Letter Evolution
June 21, 2019: What the Celts drank
June 18, 2019: Serious Eats
June 13, 2019: 63-Up
June 7, 2019: US Army $1b LSD Stash
June 5, 2019: The Secret Of Our Success
May 22, 2019: The Bit Player
May 18, 2019: Virtual Angkor
April 17, 2019: UK Iron Age ritual burials
April 6, 2019: Genealogy of Blue
March 26, 2019: Forgotten New York
March 26, 2019: The Evolution of Cycling
February 19, 2019: Medieval Trade Routes
February 14, 2019: Coding Women History
February 1, 2019: Alphabet Origin
February 1, 2019: Finding the JPEG Person
January 29, 2019: Ubar
January 28, 2019: Be: Concept To Death
January 11, 2019: Learn Ancient Languages
December 20, 2018: History of CGI
December 3, 2018: Jeff & Sanjay
November 27, 2018: Inside Bruegel
November 20, 2018: 536 was the worst year
November 20, 2018: Castle Reconstruction
November 8, 2018: Dunhuang Library
November 5, 2018: Apple France
October 19, 2018: Precision Engineering
September 12, 2018: Mesa Verde exodus
September 12, 2018: 73 ka drawing
September 4, 2018: Kenny Shopsin
September 2, 2018: 1918 Flu
August 14, 2018: Ancient Greece colors
August 2, 2018: General Magic
August 1, 2018: 80s climate mitigations
July 17, 2018: 17th century food
June 12, 2018: 240 ma Geocoding
June 12, 2018: 4.5 hours silent staring
June 7, 2018: Brontë Sisters portrait
June 5, 2018: Floorboard Confessional
May 31, 2018: Tallest Man
May 31, 2018: First Cyberattack in 1834
May 30, 2018: Art from Overfitting?
May 24, 2018: Brooklyn Bridge Champagne Vaults
April 23, 2018: Worse Tanks are better
April 20, 2018: PigeonView
February 23, 2018: Nubia
February 9, 2018: Medieval Manuscripts
February 9, 2018: ParadiseOS
December 4, 2017: Ainu
November 12, 2017: Inferring lost cities
November 9, 2017: Roman Industrial Revolution?
November 1, 2017: PowerPoint History
October 22, 2017: The Second World Wars
August 8, 2017: Barbed wire history
July 20, 2017: Hypercanes
July 20, 2017: Civilization is a loophole
June 7, 2017: Roman Empire subway map
May 14, 2017: Size of China
May 5, 2017: Mapping NYC Changes
May 1, 2017: Decoding Roman Handwriting
April 20, 2017: Unions are racist
March 25, 2017: Telharmonium
March 23, 2017: Upgrade all the windows
March 9, 2017: What will the future call us?
January 23, 2017: The heap of trash in Rome
January 14, 2017: Settlement of the Americas
January 8, 2017: Cities and Civilization
January 8, 2017: Roots of civilization
December 23, 2016: Victorian Games
December 20, 2016: Record everything
December 16, 2016: Pre-Columbian Stonehenge
December 7, 2016: Wound Men
December 5, 2016: After ISIS
November 30, 2016: 40 ka art tools
November 21, 2016: US Presidents
November 17, 2016: Meridian Reconciliation
October 26, 2016: London Customs
September 20, 2016: Human Pigments
September 19, 2016: Draken Harald Hårfagre
September 4, 2016: Sierra made PC Gaming
August 11, 2016: 6.6 ka Gold artifact
August 10, 2016: Town planning olympics
June 4, 2016: Vikings in NYC
June 4, 2016: The Pompeii of Britain
May 22, 2016: Baby sideshow performers
May 20, 2016: When Run‑DMC met Aerosmith
May 19, 2016: 2 ka Ireland-India trade
May 17, 2016: Cocaine ads
May 15, 2016: 2 Monks Inventing Things
May 8, 2016: Searching for Hannibal
April 30, 2016: Medieval Fonts
April 16, 2016: Ching Shih
March 23, 2016: Grove passes
March 8, 2016: 400 Years of London
March 8, 2016: Rome in 320
February 29, 2016: History of the Teapot
February 26, 2016: Fuzzy logic
February 18, 2016: 35 ka Language precursors?
February 16, 2016: Atmospheric rivers
February 5, 2016: Malware museum
January 9, 2016: Symantec is anti-security
January 8, 2016: Top AI breakthroughs
January 7, 2016: The forgotten slaves of Tromelin Island
January 7, 2016: Medieval fingerprints
December 14, 2015: Computing could have started 100 years earlier
December 11, 2015: History of the passport
November 30, 2015: London is cosmopolitan
November 22, 2015: The origins of junk food
November 21, 2015: Ultrasociety
November 21, 2015: Vermeer 1658 street view
November 17, 2015: Kane has been found
November 7, 2015: Mailing Children
November 6, 2015: Mail at ransom
October 29, 2015: In the beginning, there was lol
October 19, 2015: M-42
October 1, 2015: Hitler drug use
September 18, 2015: British Royal History
September 13, 2015: Paleo is BS
September 11, 2015: After Aramaic
August 26, 2015: Istanbul history
August 12, 2015: Actual Heroes
August 12, 2015: Hiroshima
August 3, 2015: The Manhattan of the Desert
July 29, 2015: Jamestown
July 26, 2015: Oversized Bronze Age axes
July 24, 2015: The Amiga turns 30
July 23, 2015: 23 ka Plant cultivation
July 22, 2015: medieval DRM
July 22, 2015: 14 ka Dentistry
July 17, 2015: The Sphinx
July 12, 2015: Britain slaveholder bailout
July 12, 2015: Historical NYC street view
July 3, 2015: T.G.I. Friday’s Invented the Singles Bar
June 7, 2015: Bronze Age Gold Rush
June 2, 2015: Supreme Archery
May 24, 2015: Pompeii speaks to us
May 24, 2015: Bletchley Park search results
May 20, 2015: JFK on Meth
May 14, 2015: The past was not peaceful
May 14, 2015: AOL
April 2, 2015: Medieval Robots
March 29, 2015: Buzzfeed isn't new
March 29, 2015: Fedex war stories
March 19, 2015: Arabic ring in Viking grave
March 8, 2015: The first market state
March 2, 2015: 8 ka trade
February 21, 2015: The way of the dodo
February 11, 2015: The Horse, the Wheel, and Language
February 8, 2015: History is Chemistry
January 24, 2015: The Cobweb
January 15, 2015: The 1300 year business
December 18, 2014: The history of the pallet
December 16, 2014: On this day in 1994
November 12, 2014: Book of Legendary Lands
November 6, 2014: NYC Construction Workers
November 3, 2014: 80% poverty reduction
October 31, 2014: 1 ka 10 greatest changes
October 18, 2014: Suburb riot
September 14, 2014: Did Industry Cause Nations?
September 8, 2014: Evolution of marriage advice
August 17, 2014: Medieval architecture mistakes
August 7, 2014: World War I in Photos
August 5, 2014: Medieval gifs
June 24, 2014: Accounting grandeur
June 10, 2014: Vermeer paintings
May 30, 2014: 2 ka of Londinium
May 29, 2014: Bomb Shelter Under Flushing Meadow Park?
May 20, 2014: Imperial History of the Middle East
April 20, 2014: JS History
April 19, 2014: Russian mummies
April 18, 2014: Fixed wrestling match
April 17, 2014: First cellular automaton?
April 16, 2014: AIM History
April 13, 2014: Tambora
April 8, 2014: NYC type foundry district
March 25, 2014: Word 1.0 source
March 22, 2014: Largest art theft
February 27, 2014: Tesla Energy
February 26, 2014: Principia Mathematica
February 22, 2014: Stupor mundi
February 17, 2014: Gentlemen, Formerly
February 17, 2014: Victorian Calling Cards
January 22, 2014: unchanging Sanskrit
January 12, 2014: Museum Cholera
January 10, 2014: Strange recipes
January 10, 2014: Ancient mentally ill community
January 1, 2014: Largest migration in history
December 31, 2013: Techno-panic history
December 24, 2013: Turing gets a pardon
December 19, 2013: DARPA Skynet
December 13, 2013: Camden, Somalia
December 12, 2013: Amiga Emulator
December 9, 2013: 20 years of DOOM
December 8, 2013: Mongolian princess hat
December 7, 2013: Medieval kids’ doodles
December 1, 2013: France nearly invented the internet
November 20, 2013: The end of winamp
November 1, 2013: History Lesson for the History Channel
October 29, 2013: Ancient music
October 28, 2013: London before 1666
October 10, 2013: Biggest polluter in history
October 9, 2013: Israel and Iran alliance
October 4, 2013: Schleicher's fable
September 18, 2013: Medieval People In Bad Situations
September 16, 2013: The first blog?
September 12, 2013: Beer deextinction
August 30, 2013: The Lycurgus Cup
August 27, 2013: Transportation has regressed
August 16, 2013: 5 ka game tokens
August 8, 2013: Leonardo Da Vinci
July 18, 2013: History of bar snacks
June 25, 2013: Herero Costume Culture
May 24, 2013: Bill of Rights
May 7, 2013: City of London
April 17, 2013: Ancient Computers in Use
April 3, 2013: Greek Mythology deep time?
March 18, 2013: Hittite fortress
March 9, 2013: Outdoor baby storage
February 16, 2013: Anna maria
January 29, 2013: Book burning in Timbuktu
January 28, 2013: CyArk
January 19, 2013: Word prevalences
January 14, 2013: The first 100m gathering
December 27, 2012: End of surprises
November 26, 2012: Eocene Thermal Maximum
November 25, 2012: Bronze Age Collapse
November 14, 2012: Michelangelo vs Leonardo
November 13, 2012: Let's have lots of city states
November 2, 2012: Beard tax
October 26, 2012: Bretton Woods transcript
October 22, 2012: War on drugs
October 13, 2012: Speeking after getting shot
September 9, 2012: Old Subway Ads
August 26, 2012: RIP Neil Armsrong
August 20, 2012: 2.5 ka Tattoos
July 30, 2012: 800 years of Grand Jury
July 21, 2012: We are on the fucking moon
July 3, 2012: When airports weren't terrible
June 28, 2012: Downton Abbey
June 24, 2012: 2 ka Silk Road
June 11, 2012: A distant mirror
June 9, 2012: Rocket mail
June 8, 2012: 3 degrees of DNA separation
May 11, 2012: 90s Youtube
May 10, 2012: Proactive Politics
April 27, 2012: Qin Shihuangdi
April 8, 2012: bell from the RMS titanic
February 4, 2012: Greatest grid
January 27, 2012: Ancient Hairdressing
December 24, 2011: Dog domestication
December 24, 2011: Digitized art
December 22, 2011: Tenement museum
October 26, 2011: Newton Letter
October 17, 2011: Canoe
October 14, 2011: The real foundation of computing
October 10, 2011: Guédelon
October 3, 2011: Trust Issues
July 19, 2011: Gardening at scale
May 31, 2011: People hanging out
May 29, 2011: Molla Nasreddin
May 21, 2011: 1491
May 13, 2011: Telfezion
April 28, 2011: Mob Pizza Cheese
March 26, 2011: The Information
March 25, 2011: Middle East borders
March 7, 2011: The Egyptian revolution
February 11, 2011: Voynich before Gutenberg
January 27, 2011: Zheng He vs Columbus
January 19, 2011: Historic NYC Bars
January 14, 2011: United States v. Tiede
January 10, 2011: Byzantium
December 28, 2010: The battle of Towton
December 18, 2010: Commodore USA
November 25, 2010: Concrete
November 21, 2010: Bed Bugs
November 4, 2010: Dens of Iniquity
November 3, 2010: Phone book lowered friction
October 25, 2010: Original Shakespeare
October 2, 2010: You’re Stealing it Wrong
September 18, 2010: Visual 6502
September 18, 2010: Thomas Hardy’s Ale
September 14, 2010: Laminated Linen
August 21, 2010: Slavery today
August 19, 2010: Russia in color in 1909
August 19, 2010: Greatest of All Time
August 19, 2010: Lapham’s Quarterly
August 17, 2010: China 2nd largest economy
August 3, 2010: US in Color 1939-1943
July 30, 2010: Louvre of the Industrial Age
July 29, 2010: Rephotography
July 29, 2010: A Timeline of Timelines
July 25, 2010: Medieval Multitasking
July 25, 2010: Historical Alcohol Consumption
July 19, 2010: MacPaint source code
July 16, 2010: Lost Ships of NYC
July 9, 2010: NYC History Tours
July 9, 2010: NYC Cultural Walking Tours
June 9, 2010: Ötzi
June 3, 2010: Soros Pound Short
May 9, 2010: Programming History
April 13, 2010: Elder age
March 27, 2010: Orange Sunshine
March 26, 2010: classic Turing Machine
July 24, 2009: Oldest Still-Inhabited Cities
July 20, 2009: Lunar Landing Equations
July 14, 2009: What Makes Us Happy?
May 11, 2009: Gruit
May 7, 2009: NYC ridership since 1905
April 25, 2009: The Secret of El Dorado
April 16, 2009: Consanguinity
March 10, 2009: The Story of Tetris
March 7, 2009: The 10000 Year Explosion
February 28, 2009: Paleogenetics
February 20, 2009: Banksters
January 26, 2009: 16th century portfolio
January 25, 2009: Mannahatta
January 4, 2009: Michigan Stonehenge
December 26, 2008: When Giants Fall
December 13, 2008: Mother of All Demos
December 12, 2008: Camp Tintype
December 9, 2008: Future Schlock
December 3, 2008: Manhattan Street Corners
December 1, 2008: Food Timeline
November 5, 2008: Obama Front Pages
November 5, 2008: Election behind the scenes
November 5, 2008: Articles on Ancient History
November 5, 2008: Grand Trunk Road
October 29, 2008: Phoenician Genetic Origins
October 29, 2008: Swiss Genography
October 28, 2008: Mongol Conquests
September 22, 2008: Development of C
September 5, 2008: Samaritan Genography
August 29, 2008: Genes and Languages
August 28, 2008: Mayan underworld portal
June 27, 2008: London And Its Dead
June 23, 2008: Burrnesha
June 7, 2008: TileStack
June 5, 2008: map of new york, 1777
June 3, 2008: History of the Web
April 23, 2008: 70 ka Human bottleneck
April 19, 2008: Microsoft compatibility
April 11, 2008: Fascist Olympic torch
March 30, 2008: Run Old Browsers
March 28, 2008: 1857 Sound Recording
March 23, 2008: Apollo 11
March 22, 2008: We lost the read/write web
March 22, 2008: ITU standards
March 21, 2008: The Internet? Bah!
March 17, 2008: Flashback to the VHS Web
March 14, 2008: Max Mix
January 17, 2008: Life After People
January 15, 2008: LOC on Flickr
January 2, 2008: Netscape 0.9 adventures
December 25, 2007: Tirggel
December 22, 2007: The Web That Wasn't
December 14, 2007: The etiquette of telecommunications
December 9, 2007: Palestinian Maps Omitting Israel
November 30, 2007: 100 year forecast
November 30, 2007: Unbureaucratic Computers
November 30, 2007: HyperTIES
November 24, 2007: Communication
November 20, 2007: Paleolithic Longevity
November 16, 2007: PhillyHistory.org
October 12, 2007: Parchment of Chinon
October 9, 2007: Universal Heritage Poster
October 3, 2007: Arthur C. Clarke on Sputnik
October 2, 2007: Amazon Dynamo
September 18, 2007: AJAX in the historical context
September 17, 2007: NYT to Stop Charging
September 16, 2007: Municipal Photographer
September 13, 2007: Piecing history together
September 13, 2007: Secret Knowledge
September 11, 2007: Utopie
September 11, 2007: A Don's Life
September 9, 2007: Wonders of the World
August 26, 2007: Should the Net forget?
August 18, 2007: Underground city
August 15, 2007: Photo-Auto Maps
August 13, 2007: Sprawl Doomed Angkor Wat
August 13, 2007: Duck and Cover!
August 13, 2007: Game Archaeology
August 9, 2007: All the News Unfit to Print
August 6, 2007: Malthusian Evolution
July 28, 2007: 1675 Conceptual maps
July 25, 2007: History of House Cats
July 24, 2007: W's grandpappy planned fascist coup of USA
July 24, 2007: Bible checksums
July 14, 2007: English and Irish Ancestry
July 13, 2007: Mammoth deextinction
July 12, 2007: Cultural Survival Nonsense
July 9, 2007: Underwear created literacy
July 9, 2007: Fossil Rivers
July 6, 2007: Apple Evolution
July 5, 2007: Ape altruism
July 1, 2007: 1 ma west Europe tooth
July 1, 2007: Unstoppable Globalization
June 30, 2007: DNA Heritage
June 30, 2007: Atlas of the Human Journey
June 27, 2007: The World Without Us
June 25, 2007: Ground Conditions
June 22, 2007: National Security Archive
June 19, 2007: Antibiotics
June 19, 2007: Under Construction
June 19, 2007: Great moments in airline confirmation codes
June 18, 2007: Teaching soldiers archaeology
June 17, 2007: 82 ka Adornments
June 6, 2007: USSR Lost Arcade Games
May 27, 2007: Manhattan Landfill
May 25, 2007: 13 ka Comet cataclysm?
May 4, 2007: The Netscape Blog
April 26, 2007: The oldest story ever written
April 20, 2007: History of mealtimes
April 5, 2007: Heliocentric Pantheon
March 26, 2007: Enron Explorer
March 11, 2007: Earth viewed from books
March 3, 2007: 1993 Internet Report
March 3, 2007: Carbon capture
March 2, 2007: Sedlec Ossuary
February 9, 2007: Byzantine Rulers
February 1, 2007: Seminal virtual world mailing list
January 30, 2007: Gunkanjima Island
January 28, 2007: Gondwana Tepuis
January 12, 2007: Windows Promo
January 11, 2007: voting with +1
January 6, 2007: Graphing human lifelines
January 5, 2007: Before The Dawn
December 31, 2006: Generations
December 24, 2006: Reductiones in Paraguay
December 24, 2006: Famous Trials
December 4, 2006: Peake
December 4, 2006: Apocalypto
December 1, 2006: State of the World
December 1, 2006: Gates plays Petals Around the Rose
December 1, 2006: Pyramids built with concrete blocks
November 28, 2006: London Wreck-diving
November 28, 2006: Anshe Chung, SL tycoon
November 18, 2006: Yonaguni
November 12, 2006: Rosenkreuzer
November 11, 2006: Bog Man Used Hair Gel
November 11, 2006: Domesday Book
November 10, 2006: Sagalassos
October 31, 2006: 3 ka BP Wealth of Nations?
October 28, 2006: Westford Knight
October 25, 2006: Fungi
October 24, 2006: Adopting countries
October 18, 2006: Nuclear space propulsion
October 17, 2006: Takla Makan Mummies
October 15, 2006: Archimedes Palimpsest
October 11, 2006: A Short History of Nearly Everything
October 10, 2006: Flooded Ice Age Kingdoms
October 10, 2006: Cradle of Civilization?
August 18, 2005: Profits of fear
June 27, 2005: Giornale Nuovo
May 7, 2005: Debre damo
April 17, 2005: Digital Unroll
January 24, 2005: origins of wrestling?
August 12, 2004: Origin of stupid nicknames
June 20, 2004: Tutankhamun
May 15, 2004: one for the road
March 16, 2004: Long term storage
February 14, 2004: HTML 1.0
December 15, 2003: Kongo Gumi
December 10, 2003: Towards psychohistory
November 11, 2003: Beauty
November 11, 2003: lean production
November 7, 2003: Biography
October 14, 2003: on this day in 1660
September 8, 2003: Plague
April 26, 2003: Emoji
February 25, 2003: Nuclear Weapons
December 8, 2002: Galvanic reanimation
November 6, 2002: Refreshingly tasteless
October 21, 2002: kissing dictators
October 2, 2001: Email at 30
September 11, 2001: US at war?
July 18, 2001: Technical webcasts