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Anyone who reviews this database in detail, and appreciates its scope, might very well wonder why I have undertaken this project which is, of course, impossible to complete. Primarily, the database is an expression of the widest range of my historical curiosity- a way to unify many of my interests into a research source that will, I hope, become increasingly useful. As has often been said, we are presently experiencing one of the most significant and dramatic transitional phases in the evolution of information and media. The transition from a world in which information was primarily created, recorded, distributed and stored in physical form on paper to a world in which most information is produced, created, distributed and stored in digital form on the Internet has occurred mostly within my lifetime. I was born in 1945, just after World War II ended, and soon after the first general purpose electronic digital computer, the ENIAC, became operational. The ongoing dramatic changes in media, which all of us experience, caused me to wonder how all these changes came about. The more I delve into the history of media the more complex some of the historical problems appear. I suspect that it will require the passage of considerably more years before historians can look back at our rapidly changing time with genuine objectivity. One of the goals of this database is to provide raw material for histories or other scholarship that may be written now and also in the future.
Originally posted by skalla
thats pretty cool actually, i've had a little look around, and while the map at least needs more info for the earliest periods, i reckon that could well change over time - there are also some great articles on the development of technology (what, no alieeens?) that a few people here should read too!
seeing as we are sharing inneresting links on history and that, here's a cool pictoral timeline of north american stone points.. you have to get zoomed in to see the flake scars well, but for ed value it's rather splendidwww.relicshack.com...
and a pretty fantastic virtual tour of the Lascaux caves of france, awesome cave paintings and all. with spooky music too
www.lascaux.culture.fr...#/en/02_00.xml
edit on 9-3-2013 by skalla because: how frikkin often do i say "awesome"? i dont even surf :/
Originally posted by Aleister
Time to bump this, and to throw a party for people interested in this stuff. Whew, just look at this guy's website.
Originally posted by skalla
thats pretty cool actually, i've had a little look around, and while the map at least needs more info for the earliest periods, i reckon that could well change over time - there are also some great articles on the development of technology (what, no alieeens?) that a few people here should read too!
Originally posted by Byrd
Originally posted by skalla
Heh. He may have quite a problem with Ancient Egypt because there's a string of new stuff that's constantly being done.
Originally posted by Flavian
reply to post by Aleister
Aleister,
A very very big thank you from me for sharing this resource. I have just had an extremely quick skim through one of the links and i was blown away. There maybe stuff that proves contentious (probably will be given the huge amount of information contained there) but just WOW anyway. Huge kudos to the guy.
If i could give multiple flags and stars i would. I have just bookmarked it to my favourites section and will be perusing at leisure - probably for months to come!