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The Harold Mangum System uses phonetic sounds for 0 to 9 based on the most common form of the Major System, mentioned above: Suh, Tuh, Nuh, Muh, Ruh, Luh, Shuh, Cuh, Fuh, Puh.
Major system for remembering digits and numbers. Use the consonants to choose words and make sentences to remember a string of numbers.
Major System | Art of Memory
artofmemory.com
The term was “Web 2.0” was first coined in 1999 by technologist Darcy DiNucci, [who wrote](https://substack.com/redirect/e4cd5ce6-e938-4f18-b94a-2aa21489a556?j=eyJ1IjoiMXlmdTFqIn0.qYv5NVQwodvs9yAW1b9IqXxz-UTiPAUp4JXaRMXUArU) , “the first glimmerings of Web 2.0 are beginning to appear, and we are just starting to see how that embryo might develop. The Web will be understood not as screenfuls of text and graphics but as a transport mechanism, the ether through which interactivity happens.”
Dumb and Shameful Until It's Not
Garbage Day
Even if you believe these reactions are not fair, they are an excellent example of the human volatilities one must consider in evaluating a technology for century-scale storage. If you construct your storage scheme using a culturally and politically volatile technology, that in itself presents a risk long after you are gone. As with every other method described here, the method must be preserved along with what is being stored.
Century-Scale Storage
Maxwell Neely-Cohen
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