PUBLIC MARKS with tag histoire

It is said that those who don’t study history are doomed to repeat it. In the case of the copyright industry, they have learned that they can get new monopoly benefits and rent-seeker’s benefits every time there is a new technology, if they just complain loudly enough to the legislators.

Une partition du IVe siècle avant J.-C. a été retrouvée dans une boîte à biscuits au Louvre. Après décryptage et reconstitution des instruments d'époque, la partition y est jouée. Récit d'une incroyable découverte archéologique.

Big news from Twentieth Century Fox International this morning, announcing that they will cease to provide 35mm prints of their films for Hong Kong and Macau cinemas commencing 1 January 2012. After that date, all Fox content will be provided through DCI-compliant digital formats only. 

Myths are often unsatisfactory, even tormenting. They puzzle and haunt the mind that encounters them. They shape different parts of the world inside our heads, and they shape them not as pleasures, but as encounters with the inapprehensible – the numinous

OpenTreeMap provides an easy-to-use public inventorying platform that enables individuals, organizations, and governments to collaboratively contribute to an interactive and dynamic map of a community’s tree population.

A la fin de l’année 1995, la première connexion à Internet de 64 kbps relie le Sénégal au monde du web.

Je ne suis pas une personne nostalgique. J’ai trop à vivre et à découvrir encore pour regretter le passé.

Lancé en 1981, l'IBM 5150 a été le premier PC commercialisé de l'histoire.