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A Working-Class Hero, Part 1
- wcarss 10y agoI've come to look forward to these articles a great deal each week. For those of you who haven't been to Jimmy's site before, definitely check out the Hall of Fame and Table of Contents sections -- he's written nearly 5 years worth of nearly weekly long-form articles on computer and video game history, often with links to actual emulators to try out old software, and flush with references to source material. Really an amazing resource. (and edit: I have no connection to him or to the site)
- smacktoward 10y agoYeah, his site really is one of the little gems of the Internet. So much good stuff there.
- B1FF_PSUVM 10y ago> "A war that absolutely no one saw coming" This bit is oddly wrong in an otherwise mostly sound piece. Even if you only look at the popular fiction being written around 1910, you can know it. Especially in naval matters - the English were very much troubled by the growing German naval power. There was a strong notion that it would come to blows sometime soon, for one reason or another.
- tonmoy 10y agoThe popular fiction of current time has US fighting with China/Russia, but we don't think there is a chance of WW3