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Re:Coolest Things I Learned in 2018 by jolmg on Tuesday January 08, 2019 @11:31AM (#18856802)
> Same with history: years are meaningless. What's interesting is how historical events follow from earlier events and lead to later events.

That's also how I learned what history I know. The trouble with that is not knowing how differently themed events are positioned relative to each other in time. For example, I don't know how events of political history linked to events of computer history.

Re:Coolest Things I Learned in 2018 by empath75 on Tuesday January 08, 2019 @08:52PM (#18861639)
Surely you can connect WWII with the early years of computer science at the very least :)
Re:Coolest Things I Learned in 2018 by mcv on Tuesday January 08, 2019 @01:35PM (#18858073)
You can always look up the relevant years. That's easier than the other way around.