Post #1778166
2026-04-28 03:51 UTC
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@adama@mas.to 2026-04-28 04:01
@rek "The first known vending machine, created in the 1st century CE by Hero of Alexandria, dispensed holy water. This invention predates the modern concept of vending machines by nearly 2,000 years, making it seem anachronistic in ancient history.[10] Hero of Alexandria and contemporaries may have considered this device to be a kind of automaton." 😲
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@GustavinoBevilacqua@mastodon.cisti.org 2026-04-28 04:08
@rek Like thinking to the past as black and white, because almost the totality of the old photos we see aren't in color. But the beginning of 1900 was colorful as today… https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergey_Prokudin-Gorsky#Gallery
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@solsetur@famichiki.jp 2026-04-28 04:15
@rek cool!!
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@anders@merveilles.town 2026-04-28 04:23
@rek Brought a little joy to the end of our day :)
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@stevegis_ssg@mas.to 2026-04-28 06:31
@rek "The use of OMG for Oh My God, an abbreviation popular in the 21st century, is first recorded in 1917 in a letter to Winston Churchill."
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@Owlor@meow.social 2026-04-28 14:56
@rek one funny variant of the Tiffany problem I've encountered a lot is when the formal/upper class way of saying something becomes the standard and the previously informal/lower class way of saying it ends up sounding more traditional, historical and fancy, so a lot of historical fiction characters end up talking in a scandalously informal way for their station. I guess this would be the "thou" problem.
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@djm62@beige.party 2026-04-28 18:37
@rek Diot Coke predates full sugar by 6 centuries https://historyfacts.com/world-history/fact/a-woman-named-diot-coke-was-born-in-the-middle-ages/
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@AdmiralMemo@mastodon.social 2026-04-28 23:27
@rek It also sends historians into a near-endless spiral of getting into the weeds and getting all of their work invalidated because one dead dude just lied about a lot of stuff. https://youtu.be/qEV9qoup2mQ