Continue readingOn January 20th, 1998, Netscape laid off a lot of people. One of them would have been me, as my “department”, such as it was, had been eliminated, but I ended up mometarily moving from “clienteng” over to the “website” division. For about 48 hours I thought that I might end up writing a webmail product or something.
That, uh, didn’t happen.
Jamie Zawinski
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Tours of Old York #1: 70s York in Flood
York in flood during (apparently) the late 70s. At about 30 seconds in there’s a lovely shot of a very wet pre-flood defence Marygate. Later on, at around one minute forty, you get a shot along Wellington Row and across the River – notably showing the build that there before the construction of the General Accident (now Aviva) Building. There are also some nice shots of The Kings Arms and the bottom of the Museum Gardens in flood.
Archive.org’s 911 TV Archive
Sometimes it’s hard to remember the initial panic and horror that surrounded the 9/11 attacks or possibly you were even yet to be born. Either way, Archive.org’s Understanding 9/11 TV timeline is a good place to start your understanding what it was like to watch things unfold on that day.
Snowdrift at Bleath Gill (1955) and Snow (1963).
Taken from the BFI archives.
Snowdrift at Bleath Gill (1955) – Kenneth Fairbairn
Snow (1963) – Geoffrey Jones.
The Guardian on… Cults.
Apparently, in those more freeform pre-Blair-government days of February 1997, The Guardian (or at least those parts of the Guardian who worked Saturdays to put out the Observer) decided to put out a guide to cults.
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