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In fact, far more Asian workers moved to the Americas in the 19th century to make sugar than to build the transcontinental railroad.
Making Sugar, Making 'Coolies': Chinese Laborers Toiled Alongside Black Workers on 19th-Century Louisiana Plantations
theconversation.com
Paper had no Back or Close buttons.
We held the belief that early ideation is about always moving forward. This is the “Yes, and…” philosophy that unlocks creative flow. We took this literally and designed a navigational model where you never had to back out of a menu but would simply move on to the next thing.
At a time when most apps relied on nested menus that had you diving in and out (a la iPod), we came up with a spatial navigation model that you moved through with gestures. This meant you always had context of how you arrived and could see where you might go next. To close, a small pinch would take you back to your pages and a big pinch would take you all the way back to your row of journals. One single, interruptible gesture years before iOS’s fluid home swipe gesture.
Paper at 10
The Owl and Between Bears
The first of these phones, the Nokia 8110, was the first GSM handset with an ARM core. It would become famous a few years later when it appeared in the movie The Matrix.
A History of ARM, Part 2: Everything Starts to Come Together
arstechnica.com
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