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inothernews: poynterinstitute: webbys: In 1991, the first Webcam is invented in the Cambridge University Computer Lab, allowing users to check coffee pot levels without moving.   Their laziness was technology’s gain.  Explore the best of Internet history.  Coffee and the internet: a dynamic duo and source of inspiration to journalists everywhere.  I can’t tell if it’s this or the first cell phone call that is the bigger tech achievement now. Coffee - fueling journalism and the internet.

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webbys:

In 1991, the first Webcam is invented in the Cambridge University Computer Lab, allowing users to check coffee pot levels without moving.  

Their laziness was technology’s gain. 

Explore the best of Internet history. 

Coffee and the internet: a dynamic duo and source of inspiration to journalists everywhere. 

I can’t tell if it’s this or the first cell phone call that is the bigger tech achievement now.

Coffee - fueling journalism and the internet.

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Teletext, though developed in the 1970s didn’t catch on until 1980’s. A great source of information and cheap holiday deals beamed directly to your television set, in the 1980’s was a novelty. In 2009 teletext came off air, the reason for it’s demise? The Internet. (via The Northern Collective)

Teletext, though developed in the 1970s didn’t catch on until 1980’s. A great source of information and cheap holiday deals beamed directly to your television set, in the 1980’s was a novelty. In 2009 teletext came off air, the reason for it’s demise? The Internet.
(via The Northern Collective)

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Because of the modernities that the military in World War II brought with them when they came to the islands, several cargo cults developed. Many died out, but the John Frum cult on Tanna is still large, and has adherents in the parliament. Also on Tanna is the Prince Philip Movement, which reveres the United Kingdom’s Prince Philip. Villagers of the Yaohnanen tribe believed in an ancient story about the pale-skinned son of a mountain spirit venturing across the seas to look for a powerful woman to marry. Prince Philip, having visited the island with his new wife Queen Elizabeth, fit the description exactly and is therefore revered and even held as a god around the isle of Tanna.[
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The Paraguayan War (Spanish:
Guerra del Paraguay; Portuguese: Guerra do Paraguai), also known as War of the Triple Alliance (Spanish: Guerra de la Triple Alianza; Portuguese: Guerra da Tríplice Aliança), and in Paraguay itself as the "Great War" (Spanish: Guerra Grande, Guarani: Ñorairõ Guazú), [1][2] was a military conflict in South America fought from 1864 to 1870 between Paraguay and the Triple Alliance of Argentina, Brazil, and Uruguay. It caused more deaths proportionally to the number of actual combatants than any other war in modern history, and particularly devastated Paraguay, killing most of its male population. Several theories exist regarding the origins of the war. The traditional view emphasizes the aggressive policy of Paraguayan president Francisco Solano López towards Platine matters. Conversely, the Paraguayan traditional view and Argentine revisionism since the 1960s give a preponderant role to the interests of the British Empire. The war began in late 1864 with combat operations between Brazil and Paraguay; from 1865 onwards, one can properly refer to the "War of the Triple Alliance".
[...] One estimate places total Paraguayan losses — through both war and disease — as high as 1.2 million people, or 90% of its pre-war population.[4][5] A different estimate places Paraguayan deaths at approximately 300,000 people out of its 500,000 to 525,000 prewar inhabitants.[6] According to Steven Pinker the war killed more than 60% of the population of Paraguay, making it proportionally the most destructive war in modern times.[7]

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