#20yearsago — Public Fediverse posts

Odeo released a new service today called Twttr, which is a sort of “group send” SMS application. Each person controls their own network of friends. When any of them send a text message to “40404,” all of his or her friends see the message via sms.

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with @olechka
#silentsunday #20yearsago

Let's forget for a moment that I apparently didn't know what day of the month (or week, for that matter) it was yesterday. So the pictures I posted yesterday were from the 10th and the 11th. So what?

I know today is the 12th. I think. Whatever. I definitely know that the photos in this post are from September 12th, 2003. I went to Oxford.

1. Paddington Station, London
2. The folks I went to Oxford with and me,( center front), getting our literary drink on.
3. Radcliffe Camera
4. Turf Tavern. More drinking, because there isn't anywhere in the US where you can drink at a 625 year old pub (unless there is, in which case, someone please tell me where it is).

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Bonus video! There aren't a lot of these, but I'll try to post them on days when there is one. My little Olympus digital point and shoot could take postage stamp sized 30 second videos. Here's one of Buckingham Palace.

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OK, first up, some photos from our first stop: London.

1. Is this the first photo ever taken that contains both Karin (furthest left) and me (long hair, directly beneath the first w in www)? Odds are there are a few that predate it, but it's the earliest one that I have.
2. Here's the second picture that has us both in it! And we're (almost) next to each other!
3. It's the first picture of the yellow jacket! It is not the last.
4. David Blaine on day 5 of his 44 day Above the Below stunt.

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Since It has been 20 years since I studied abroad, I am going to try to post a few photos each day from this day #20YearsAgo. I took hundreds of photos that semester. At the time, that was an unbelievably large number of photos, but I had my little Olympus D40-Z with me, as well as my trusty Minolta SLR, so I didn't hold back. If I took the same trip today, I would probably take as many photos per day as I took the whole 3 months in 2003, but such is the pace of technology.

JUVENILIA VOLUME 2 IS OUT NOW!!!

#NewMusic #NewMusicAlert #20YearsAgo

https://cairobraga.bandcamp.com/album/juvenilia-originals-vol-2

While most aircraft run on fossil fuels, NASA has been working on alternatives for decades. 🌱

Helios, a record-breaking, remotely-piloted, solar-powered aircraft, suffered a mishap #20YearsAgo today, breaking apart over the Pacific.

More about Helios: https://go.nasa.gov/447cmLh
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Mars Global Surveyor captured this photo of the Earth and our Moon from Mars orbit #20YearsAgo today in 2003. It was the first image of Earth ever taken from another planet that shows our home as a planetary disk!

See more views of Earth from space: https://www.flickr.com/photos/nasacommons/albums/72157625096855580
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On this day in 2003: Our NYC desk panned the White Stripes show at Hammerstein Ballroom. #otd #WhiteStripes #20YearsAgo
https://gloriousnoise.com/2003/white_stripes_public_hunger_no

#20YearsAgo Rick Husband was orbiting the Earth as commander of STS-107, his 2nd Shuttle flight. Husband dreamt of being an astronaut from childhood and, after becoming a @usairforce test pilot, applied 4 times before being selected to NASA's 1994 astronaut class. #NASARemembers
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Earth received its last, faint signal from Pioneer 10 from 12,230,000,000 km away #20YearsAgo today (taking 11+ hours to reach us). Launched in 1972, the Pioneer 10 spacecraft saw many firsts over its mission, including our first encounter with Jupiter. https://go.nasa.gov/3QNPtal
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#20YearsAgo today Space Shuttle Columbia launched on mission STS-107 with Rick Husband, Willie McCool, Michael Anderson, Kalpana Chawla, David Brown, Laurel Clark, and Ilan Ramon on board.

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Launched #20YearsAgo today, ICESat's laser altimeters measured the thickness of the Antarctica and Greenland ice sheets for 7 years. Its measurements, along with ICESat-2's, showed that from 2003–2019, Greenland lost ~200 gigatons of ice per year.

More: https://go.nasa.gov/3IDlG21
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2 years after its 1st flyby of Earth, the Galileo spacecraft snapped this pic of our Moon on its 2nd flyby #20YearsAgo today. Galileo used what flight planners called a "VEEGA," a Venus-Earth-Earth gravity assist, to gain momentum for its trip to Jupiter: https://go.nasa.gov/3UCutn1
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When STS-113 launched #20YearsAgo today, Mission Specialist John Herrington became the first enrolled member of a Native American tribe to travel to space.

Find out what he brought to space in honor of his Chickasaw Tribe: https://go.nasa.gov/3UZWu96 #NativeAmericanHeritageMonth
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