|5-18-20
Vandalism, love it? Hate it? Participate in it? It is a topic that affects us all, but where did it come from?
Much like all roads, the origins of this concept takes us to Rome. You see, as the Roman Empire decayed and the world found itself at the onset of the dark ages, Rome was invaded/sacked multiple times by a plethora of barbarian tribes. These attacks contributed greatly to the downfall of an already dying empire and its hegemonic influence on the era.
One such group's persistent and auspicious acts of maritime terrorism on both the Western and Eastern coasts of the Roman Empire would culminate in the 455 AD Sack of Rome. Who were they?
They were led across the Mediterranean Sea from Northern Africa by a man named Genseric. Having to travel across an ocean in those times would cause anyone to grow tired of water and its bs, those who crossed with Genseric were no exception to this fact. As Genseric and his tribes of barbarians made landfall and approached Rome, they destroyed all aqueducts and water related devices of the time. As they reached Rome this senseless hatred of H2O would continue for some 14 days as the city was destroyed and looted.
What does any of this have to do with vandalism? Well, the group of barbarians responsible for this senseless destruction were called the Vandals. BOOM.
Click
here to watch a video that goes into more detail on the Fall of Rome.
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|5-17-20
Mozilla Firefox
What a sweet browser, if you're not using it you should go
download it right now.
If you already have Firefox,
here's a nifty collection of extensions I found scrolling through hacker news this morning.
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|5-16-20
This is where I would post something from the 16th. This post just demonstrates the blog-like feature of the project plans webpage.