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46,165karma·2,755submissions·June 2, 2014
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I had no idea before reading this article that HyperCard dated back to 1987. It was still being used in my fifth grade classroom in 1996 (I remember it vividly because that was the year I won my count…
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The Letters of Abelard and Heloise is wonderful and completely evergreen since it's about love and broken hearts. Confessions of St. Augustine is from late antiquity but I think should "coun…
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Author here. I tried out Dragonrealms a bit back in the day (c. 1996) but it was too surreal to play a game with almost the same mechanics and descriptions as Gemstone, but with everything slightly di…
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Spun off from the discussion in this thread about empiricism and the history of science/medicine: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8509271 Some basic background on what Thoma…
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Thanks, I'll check this out. Historians of early modern science have a favorite example of this, phlogiston. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phlogiston_theory Phlogiston theory…