On October 28, 1886, U.S. president Grover Cleveland, the former New York governor, presided the dedication ceremony of the Statue of Liberty, a gift to the United States from the people of France.
Numbers for Fantasy Worlds, a distillation of broad possibilities drawn from a variety of historical reference points, from periods ranging from the 11th to 15th centuries as a good model for a trad-fantasy gameworld.
Guy Steele's keynote at the 1998 ACM OOPSLA conference on "Growing a Language" (mostly about JAVA) discusses the importance of and issues associated with designing a programming language that can be grown by its users.
on these pages you will find many screen shots of various desktop computer Graphical User Interfaces and operating systems. Many different people have had different ideas of how a GUI should work and these screen shots show many of the more popular ones.
Vintage Japanese WWII Air Raid Defense Posters made in 1938, by the Japanese Red Cross working with government authorities to create a series of posters to teach the public about the new Anti-Aircraft Defense Law, which was enacted in seeming anticipation of air strikes following the outbreak of the Japan-China War (1937-1945).
D. Stanton, C. O’Malley, K. Ng, M. Fraser, and S. Benford. Designing for change in networked learning environments: proceedings of the International Conference on Computer Support for Collaborative Learning 2003, page 293 – 302. (2003)
S. Kaasten, and S. Greenberg. CHI '01: CHI '01 extended abstracts on Human factors in computing systems, page 379--380. New York, NY, USA, ACM Press, (2001)