The original Apple operation manual for the original Apple computer. The Apple I launched in 1976 and was priced at $666.66. Only 200 units were ultimately produced, but scarcity breeds demand — a working Apple I sold at auction in November 2012 for $650,000.
The West Wing breaks down what’s wrong with maps and why the Gals-Peters Projection is more accurate and less politically biased than the Mercator map we’ve been using for centuries.
Complement with maps as power and propaganda, 100 diagrams that changed the world, and some intentionally distorted maps that make political points.
Four centuries of exploration, visualized. Pair with how maps came to rule the world.
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The 2013 submarine cable map of the world, reminding us of the striking physicality of the internet.
“They are as eager to broaden their personal horizons as they are to expand their professional prospects. They do not expect or desire to spend their career in the same organization or country. They enjoy mobility and view it as necessary to gather the experience, ability, connections and…
The meme is strong in this one. It keeps popping up again and again, and seems to have struck a chord in the hacker community.
Whether you want to do something at an arbitrary time in the future is a superficial, if interesting, question. The deeper question is what motivates you do it now,…
