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The internet's "original sin" was committed 30 years ago.

"[...] the gaudy banner ad took over the web [...] legend has it that the first HotWired banner ad was from AT&T, prophetically asking "Have you ever clicked your mouse right here? You will.""

<https://www.wired.com/2010/10/1027hotwired-banner-ads/>

<https://web.archive.org/web/20140830021729/https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/08/advertising-is-the-internets-original-sin/376041>

#OTD #OnThisDay #FirstBannerAd #ads #history #technology #internet #TheWeb #InternetHistory

Hah, alright. One more #OnThisDay #trivia.

#OTD in 1901, on her 63rd birthday, an American schoolteacher Annie Edson Taylor became "the first person to survive a trip over Niagara Falls in a barrel".

"Her motives were financial but she never made much money from her adventure. [...] Her manager, Frank M. Russell, ran away with her barrel [...]"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annie_Edson_Taylor

#history #WomensHistory #NiagaraFalls #BarrelRoll

The Black Panther Party was founded #OnThisDay in 1966.

From a 2016 article commemorating its 50th anniversary:

"The work of the Black Panthers remains important for several reasons. First, they remind us that the problem of police brutality has long been with us [...]

Second, the BPP offers a good model of grassroots activism and ideology in practice."

<https://jacobin.com/2016/10/black-panther-party-fifty-year-anniversary-founding>

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Panther_Party

#history #BlackHistory #BlackPanther #BlackPantherParty

The first live TV broadcast from an American spacecraft was performed by the Apollo 7 crew #OnThisDay in 1968.

"It began with a view of a card reading "From the Lovely Apollo Room high atop everything", [a reference to 1930s radio broadcasts] [...]

During the seven-minute broadcast, the crew showed off the spacecraft and gave the audience views of the southern United States."

<https://youtube.com/watch?v=z8-M5Z-Ipro>

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_7

#OTD #space #history #nasa #LiveTV

"The first American alarm clock was created in 1787 by Levi Hutchins [...]. This device he made only for himself, however, and it only rang at 4 am, in order to wake him for his job. The French inventor Antoine Redier was the first to patent an adjustable mechanical alarm clock, in 1847."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alarm_clock

via <https://www.popularmechanics.com/culture/g38300892/who-invented-these-everyday-items/?slide=2>

#TIL #technology #inventions #history #AlarmClock

"On October 12, 1964, [engineer and electronic music pioneer] Bob Moog unveiled the first modular voltage-controlled synthesizer [...]

What Bob designed was not wholly new, it sprung from a powerful new combination of existing ideas. The concepts, when combined with some elegant design choices, made a very powerful and revolutionary new system."

<https://www.moogmusic.com/news/early-years-moog-synthesizer>

#OnThisDay #OTD #music #history #MusicHistory #moog #BobMoog #synth

What now?

"[The industrialist Henry Ford] believed that Jews invented jazz as a plot to corrupt society. [...] As a result, he used his wealth to promote square dancing, through books and square dancing events. Ford also promoted square dance classes in public school, which were present in half of all American schools in 1928 as part of the standard physical education curriculum."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_Western_square_dance#History_of_modern_western_square_dance

via <https://noc.social/@todayilearned/113273481758370176>

#TIL #history #antisemitism #SquareDancing #HenryFord

Happy #LaborDay!

"Conservative Democratic President Grover Cleveland was one of those concerned that a labor holiday on May 1 would [...] strengthen socialist and anarchist movements that backed the May 1 commemoration around the globe. In 1887, he publicly supported the September Labor Day holiday as a less inflammatory alternative [...]"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labor_Day#Labor_Day_versus_May_Day

#LaborDay #workers #WorkerSolidarity #history