Archive for 'History'
Dan Carlin - Hardcore History.
The device, a 2,000-year-old assemblage of gears and wheels that matched 19th century clocks in precision and complexity, was salvaged from a shipwreck off the Greek island of Antikythera in 1901.
It was probably the closest we ever got to a full blown nuclear war between the Unites States and the Soviet Union, even closer than during the 1962 Cuban missile crisis.
1983: Brink of Apocalypse - Part 1
1983: Brink of Apocalypse - Part 2
1983: Brink of Apocalypse - Part 3
1983: Brink of Apocalypse - Part 4
1983: Brink of Apocalypse - Part 5
1983: Brink of Apocalypse - Part 6
1983: Brink of Apocalypse - Part 7
Sixty-nine years ago, on December 7th, 1941, the Imperial Japanese Navy launched a surprise attack against the United States naval base in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.
I’ve spent the last year and a half or so constructing my own 1/10-scale, binary-compatible, cycle-accurate Cray-1.






