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Tag: history

Hister indexes every web page you visit and lets you search the full text of your browsing history offline

2026-03-152026-03-15 Danie
Alt text: HISTER search engine homepage with a search bar, tag filters, and stats showing indexed pages, active rules, and aliases.

“Have you ever wished your browser history was more than just a collection of URLs? As it is, the standard search history is kind of useless. Sure, you can see the title of the page […]

Blogbrowsers, history, opensource, search, technology

The Rest Is History has received the 2025 Apple Podcasts Award for Show of the Year

2025-12-042025-12-04 Danie
Artwork featuring classical busts with the phrase "THE REST IS HISTORY" in bold, presented by Hive against a textured red background.

“The Rest Is History does a phenomenal job in taking a subject as vast as human history and captivating a global audience,” said Oliver Schusser, vice president of Apple Podcasts, Apple Music, Apple Sports, and […]

Bloghistory, podcasts, technology

A Fascinating History in Photos of Tram and ‘Bus Transport in Cape Town since the 1800s

2025-10-212025-10-21 Danie
Two men in early 20th-century attire stand beside a vintage bus labeled "Gouden Arrow Bus Service" in 1929.

I was looking for the location of the old Tollgate depot in Cape Town when I came upon this really excellent Museum page on the GAB site showing a really well laid out chronological history […]

Blogbuses, capetown, history, trams

Some of Edison’s earliest voice recordings of famous Britons from 1888

2024-11-162024-11-16 Danie
Two men in formal attire sitting in chairs next to a table. The men are each holding a tube with a funnel at the end towards their mouths. The tubes are connected to a mechanical device on the table. The device can be seen to have a large round cylinder on top, and a number of other metal rods and knobs.

Really eerie listening to these moments captured in time 136 years ago when recording equipment was basically ‘unheard’ of. I don’t think many of these people would ever have thought their voices would be heard […]

Bloghistory, technology, vintage

Simon’s Town historic 9-inch rifled muzzle loading cannon (RML) will fire 5 times during 2023 in Cape Town

2023-03-042023-03-04 Danie
Foreground shows an old cannon being being fired with smoke and flame coming out of the barrel, with some grass hill behind it leading down to the sea in the background

A historic 9-inch rifled muzzle loading cannon (RML) is one of the South African Naval Museum’s premier exhibits and its firing is proving a major attraction for the Simon’s Town-based museum. Permission was granted and […]

Blog#canon, capetown, history, museum, southafrica

History of the Internet 1961 to 2022

2022-11-262022-11-26 Danie
Graphical timeline of the Internet by year

The history of the internet timeline began when Leonard Kleinrock conceived the concept of the World Wide Web. In 1961, he published a piece about the “ARPANET“ in a piece entitled “Information Flow in the […]

Bloghistory, internet, retro, technology

National Science Media Museum in Bradford has 52 years of the Daily Herald Newspaper Archive online

2022-10-122022-10-12 Danie
Screenshot 20221012 193414

In the words of the American writer Susan Sontag, “To collect photographs is to collect the world.” And to see the world as it was, from dramatic historical events to the quirks of everyday life, […]

Blog#archive, #dailyherald, history, newspaper, technology
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