History

21 years ago, the founders of youtube were worried because only 40 videos had been uploaded: https://x.com/denk_tweets/status/20917280075852...

most ppl simply do not realize that before fb the internet was almost entirely anonymous. there was very little personal branding, in fact i...

Your startup intuitions were trained on a world that no longer exists. Steven Sinofsky and Martin Casado have watched computing flip from a...

If your terminal ever gets into a 'bad state', like garbled outputs, you run 𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚎𝚝. I noticed it was… oddly slow. Turns out in 1979 3B...

I read a lot of history books. And I've noticed that many of the things that people will say on a day-to-day basis regarding the past and c...

here's the boring learning from history outcome of all this AI infra investment: in the 1900s there was a boom in railroads investment a c...

Technology's effect on jobs changes over time In the First Industrial Revolution, handweaving had a "Golden Age" for 20 years because early...

I wonder if it will one day seem remarkable to historians that the population collapse wasn't due to AGI, but actually began a couple decade...

Western civilization has collapsed before. But a few scholars preserved the ideas that once made Rome great. They made a backup, and it did...

Here's my conversation with Anthony Kaldellis about the deep history of the Roman Empire in the west and the east (the Byzantine Empire). Th...

It's kind of a superpower to know the names of many beautiful and interesting things in the age of AI. You can invoke Vaporwave, Muqarnas, B...

One country lied about a harvest and life expectancy dropped for the entire planet. In 1958 China's government took a share of every villag...

if zuck had stuck to his original plan & managed to release an open weights model at the level of kimi k3, it would’ve cemented him his lege...

You kids can’t possibly imagine what WIRED Magazine used to be.

Here's my conversation with Gary Gallagher, a leading historian of the American Civil War. We discuss the causes of the war, the economics a...

Asking my parents to share their history and using @meetgranola to record it all. Then I plan use AI to clean up and organize it all and c...

To historians in the future, the question "Is that Photoshop?" will seem seem like a preliminary version of "Is that AI?" that people asked ...

SITUATION REMEMBERED: 35 years ago today, Tim Berners-Lee published the first website, explaining the World Wide Web project.

🏛️ We’re unveiling a new way to converse with the ancient world. By grounding Gemini directly in our expert models Aeneas and Ithaca, our ...

i am taking the week off to write the definitive history of how codex happened (as told by deep interviews with insiders @openai) publishi...