People probably used a lot of slate+chalk or wax tablets for regular note-taking.
Similarly, archival grade paper and printing is STILL really expensive and folks STILL aren’t doing that for their grocery lists and honey-dos. Not to mention that nearly all of our digital writings are extremely ephemeral. Wont somebody think about the future historians!!!
All of that was set-up in 2003-2006 under the bush administration in response to 9/11 and came to light during that same administration.
Obama didn’t do much about it… However, he did eventually (second administration) declassify the FISA courts that Bush Jr. set up and him and his administration took steps to automate and improve the disclosure of such programs and other evil shit with the FOIA improvement act in 2016.
We watch the BBC live action version every year. ofc the hogfather is made up, Santa is real though.
Also strongly recommended The Life and a Adventures of Santa Claus by Frank L. Baum for anyone navigating these waters with their own kids.
I’m looking at a copy of Newton’s principia and it’s pretty obvious from the first chapter that y’all are fucking idiots. (Except OP, OP is cool).
Try reading it sometime. Imagine leveling this kind of critique at any other book you’ve never read.
Last one I remember was related to the keychain update, you had to re-acknowledge all of the maintainers in the arch-keyring.
It was a lot of work to visit them all and get them to recite their key signatures while I held their hand to make sure they were really there. The blood tests took a while to come back and affirm their identities, but it was worth it for the piece of mind.