life has lost all meme-ing

Polish PT-91 tank during the commemorations of the 100 years of the Third Silesian Uprising, painted in the colors of polish vehicles involved with the fighting.

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‘Hands weaving magnetic-core memory, IBM, Poughkeepsie, New York,’ 1956. Photograph by Ansel Adams.

They were all done by hand using a kind of treadle-operated frame with a little (crochet!) hook to pull the wires around the cores. The people making them were mostly housewives who did this as a side-job in the 80s and 90s. I don't know if it's still done that way anywhere in the USA today, but the history of computing and space exploration is littered with "women's work" like this.

The model has been deemed too heavy for modernization, and instead will be slowly replaced by the Type 10 MBT.

OMMMMMM

Neo-Tokyo's artificial islands in Akira compared to the real life Tokyo Bay.

The start of Operation Nimrod, 1980 Iranian Embassy Siege.

'Summer's Day' diorama by MasakiSe