Great Moments In the History of Technical Services
2007 October 29
537 B.C.
The National Library of Babylon, finally switching to papyrus, ceases maintaining its clay tablet shelflist, but is unable to discard it for nostalgic reasons. Two years later, under seige by the Persians, the city finds a new use for the old tablets and manages to inflict severe losses on the beseiging army by pelting them from the ramparts with large quantities of shelflist tablets.43 B.C.
First attested use of an ISBN (for the special collector’s edition of Caesar’s Gallic Wars with an introduction by Marc Anthony): IXIVVIIXVIIIVIIIVIVII.
81 A.D.
Second gospel of the Christian New Testament becomes the first document written in MARK format.
Via Teresa Nielsen Hayden at Making Light.
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where are your oregon pictures???
There coming soon! Haven’t had time to sort through them yet.
Modern warfare is not to create or be faught with larger evil than
that that it is to resolve,what are the rules for?