Archive for November 4th, 2022

London's Hardworking Squads of Fatberg-Busters

Us surface dwellers don't usually have to think twice about what lurks below, but what would we find if we did? https://t.co/MeKzzePDng— Atlas Obscura (@atlasobscura) November 4, 2022 When London's sewer system...

https://www.neatorama.com/2022/11/04/Londons-Hardworking-Squads-of-Fatberg-Busters/

The Web Was Invented in France, Not Switzerland

Tim Berners-Lee and his colleagues famously invented the World Wide Web in 1993 at CERN--the European Organization for Nuclear Research. CERN's facilities are in Switzerland so it's commonly said that the Internet was in...

https://www.neatorama.com/2022/11/04/The-Web-Was-Invented-in-France-Not-Switzerland/

Finishing His Grandfather's Work

Alright. Okay. My long-dead grandpa Milt’s unfinished stained glass menorah piece. It’s been in my basement workshop for literal years now. I keep not tackling the job of picking up where he left off. I w...

https://www.neatorama.com/2022/11/04/Finishing-His-Grandfathers-Work/

Found: The Very First Copyrighted Film

Ask any historian, and they will tell you that the first time something important happens, we often don't know how important it is, and that make proper documentation for posterity a hit-or-miss situation. The US copyrig...

https://www.neatorama.com/2022/11/04/Found-The-Very-First-Copyrighted-Film/
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