The deckle edge dates back to a time when you used to need a knife to read a book. Those rough edges simulate the look of pages that have been sliced open by the reader. The printing happened on large sheets of paper which were then folded into rectangles the size of the finished pages and bound. The reader then sliced open the folds.

What if the Russians built an actual doomsday device during the Cold War?

What if it was still there?

1935: The world's first modern frontal leukotomy is performed in a Lisbon hospital by Portuguese neurologist Antonio Egas Moniz.

Windows 3.x has come to the closing moments of its long life. On 1 November Microsoft stopped issuing licences for the software that made its debut in May 1990 in the US.

On the endless and insane quest for authenticity, we have created more than 50 custom fonts to use in props. Typographical fashions change, and since the digital age overtook typesetting and graphic design, many of the fonts common in the time of Lovecraft have fallen into disuse. We've revived many of them from vintage sources, including the 1923 American Type Founder's specimen book and the Mergenthaler Linotype catalog from the mid-1930s.

Jesus Christ, Rob Liefield is terrible.

Mac OS X 10.5's Time Machine seems fairly revolutionary as far as automated backup goes - but the seeds of it have existed since Copland, the proto-Mac OS 8.

Without us on the Earth, what traces of us would linger? What would disappear?

"All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same way in any country."

Inform is a design system for interactive fiction, a new medium for writers which began with adventure games in the late 1970s and is now used for everything from literary narrative fiction through to plotless conceptual art.

1952: Lucy Gets Knocked Up - Despite Lucille Ball’s pregnancy during an entire season of I Love Lucy, the actual word "pregnant" isn’t allowed on air.

"The person who sent me this... is also a dinosaur denialist. The fun begins when she tries to explain why dinosaurs don't exist: dinosaurs were faked to justify birth control. ... Just roll with it. Don't try to understand it."

Iwo Jima is now Iwo To - the name the residents of the island still prefer, and the name it has always had since before WW2 - when it was mistakenly renamed by navy officers.

Adding digital content to music isn't a new thing - in fact, some musicians added Spectrum ZX code to vinyl recordings! Jawdroppingly weird. Includes some versions ready for emulation.

"Here’s a memo from a Xerox PARC (engineer, I presume), Robert Bachrach...suggesting that the Ethernet approach to networking can’t possible meet the necessary requirements..."

Here’s the story of how scientists unlocked the secrets of the worst natural disaster in the history of the West African nation of Cameroon… and what they’re doing to try and stop it from happening again.

A freeze-frame of a letter from an episode of Leave it to Beaver reveals... four paragraphs of mildly amusing filler, and one sentence of actual use. How 'bout that?

$60 will soon net you 750 milliliters of the first legal American absinthe (i.e. not imported from elsewhere, or smuggled in). Pricy. Wonder if it's worth it.

Ever wonder how to find a good burrito in New York? The answer: a 42-minute cross-country journey via chord tunnel from Alameda to Weehawken.

Johnny Cash's longtime lakeside home, a showcase where he wrote much of his famous music and entertained U.S. presidents, music royalty and visiting fans, was destroyed by fire on Tuesday.

I admit I don't understand the math behind this. Yes, despite being a CS major. Anyone with a science-oriented brain want to take a stab at it and see if it makes any sense?

Electronic Arts is a lumbering corporate megalith today, pumping out yearly game franchise after yearly game franchise. It's easy to forget that EA was present at the very beginning of the computer game industry, innovating and blazing a trail for everyon

Alvin 'Shipwreck' Kelly perched atop a pole on top of a hotel on Monmouth Street in Newpot, KY for 100 hours in 1928.

The following comparisons use several different versions of Super Mario Bros. 2. The SMB2 prototype represents a true transitional phase between Doki Doki Panic and the final version of Super Mario Bros. 2.

"I have a favorite drunkard. He was an athlete—a professional wrestler in fact—but he was also a gifted entertainer and a true artist. His name ... was Andre the Giant."

Welcome to Wiltshire’s Secret Underground City… the 35 acre subterranean Cold War City that lies 100 feet beneath Corsham.

"Many Cincinnatians... have heard about the subway as a historical anecdote, but not many are aware that it's largely intact, right beneath their feet. "

"DIY Supervillain Hideout." Tunnels under Niagara Falls, accessible only via an old power station.

"In 1993, Carmen Electra (you remember her? Fake boobs, Baywatch, Playboy, married Rodman or Navarro or one of those androgynous tattooed guys...) put out an album."

"All time since September 1993. One of the seasonal rhythms of the Usenet used to be the annual September influx of clueless newbies..."

"Once a vital component in a national economy, this sprawling urban environment is now a vast collection of blighted buildings, an immense petri dish of both ancient and new diseases..."

Daikatana began development 10 days before Duke Nukem Forever- Unfortunately no one was made John Romero's bitch when it hit retail shelves on May 23rd, 2000.

They should've put it on eBay, maybe...

Well, yeah, but here's a fact-by-fact breakdown. Media reaction: none.

"By analyzing the past, SAGE can project into the future." Parts of this video's monologue were used for a great song by an indie rap artist named Sage Francis. Great stuff.

Oh man, there are some classics on here. Troubling to realize these are the same age I am, though.

23 eerie parallels between Xbox 360 and the Sega Dreamcast.