minim

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago

A shower thought with a long history:

Herostratus (Ancient Greek: Ἡρόστρατος) was a 4th-century BC Greek, accused of seeking notoriety as an arsonist by destroying the second Temple of Artemis in Ephesus (on the outskirts of present-day Selçuk), one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. The act prompted his execution and the creation of a damnatio memoriae law forbidding anyone to mention his name, orally or in writing. The law was ultimately ineffective, as evidenced by surviving accounts of his crime. Thus, Herostratus has become an eponym for someone who commits a criminal act in order to become famous.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

You're probably taking issue with the post title ("birth of multimedia"), but I want to call out that the article itself only claims that Windows 95 "marked the beginning of the PC multimedia revolution."