Formed in 2009, the Archive Team (not to be confused with the archive.org Archive-It Team) is a rogue archivist collective dedicated to saving copies of rapidly dying or deleted websites for the sake of history and digital heritage. The group is 100% composed of volunteers and interested parties, and has expanded into a large amount of related projects for saving online and digital history.
Ubayd Allah ibn Jahsh ibn Ri’ab was Muhammad’s first cousin and the first notable Muslim to convert to Christianity. He did so while seeking refuge in Ethiopia. Wheel-well stowaways on airplanes have occurred more than one hundred times and have a fatality rate of over 70%. Most of the offenders are young men. One of…
Things I Like: Lex Luthor (Richard Donner’s Superman)
Gene Hackman played a Lex Luthor who was almost so comically unlike the comics that it shouldn’t have worked on paper, but it did. I still can’t believe he managed to avoid being bald for most of the film series. I don’t think any other version of Luthor had a full head of hair for…
Fun Facts and Trivia About The Internet
The internet first began in the 1960s in its most basic form and ideas. It was first proposed by J. C. R. Licklider. Contrary to popular belief, Al Gore did not invent the internet. The World Wide Web, which is the more famous part of the internet, came out in 1989. By 2005, 51 percent…
Things I Like: Dai Kaioshin (Dragon Ball Z)
Dai Kaioshin is one of the coolest characters we get to see in Dragon Ball Z, even though he only appears for a brief moment. A flashback character, he perishes long before the events of the present day. Probably even eons before King Cold became the monarch of the universe. He was essentially the Supreme…
Fun Facts and Trivia About The Chemical Element Manganese
Pure manganese is a hard, brittle, silvery-gray metal that resembles iron, but unlike iron or steel, it is not magnetic. Ironically, it is named after magnes, the Latin word for magnet. Mn-55 is its only naturally stable isotope, while all others are radioactive and decay quickly. Seventeen thousand years ago, cave artists in France used…
