#todayilearned — Public Fediverse posts

#TodayILearned that the tradition of giving mooncakes in #China has given rise to a sort of economic cycle in which slips of paper stand in for mooncakes, and companies make profits without selling a single box of mooncakes.

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#TodayILearned that the tradition of giving mooncakes in #China has given rise to a sort of economic cycle in which slips of paper stand in for mooncakes, and companies make profits without selling a single box of mooncakes.

#Mooncakes #MooncakeBackedSecurity

#TodayILearned that the tradition of giving mooncakes in #China has given rise to a sort of economic cycle in which slips of paper stand in for mooncakes, and companies make profits without selling a single box of mooncakes.

#Mooncakes #MooncakeBackedSecurity

#TodayILearned that the tradition of giving mooncakes in #China has given rise to a sort of economic cycle in which slips of paper stand in for mooncakes, and companies make profits without selling a single box of mooncakes.

#Mooncakes #MooncakeBackedSecurity

#TodayILearned that the tradition of giving mooncakes in #China has given rise to a sort of economic cycle in which slips of paper stand in for mooncakes, and companies make profits without selling a single box of mooncakes.

#Mooncakes #MooncakeBackedSecurity

Answering the earlier question, the Maldives is apparently the only country on Earth which considers Friday the first day of the week. #TodayILearned #TIL

Answering the earlier question, the Maldives is apparently the only country on Earth which considers Friday the first day of the week. #TodayILearned #TIL

Answering the earlier question, the Maldives is apparently the only country on Earth which considers Friday the first day of the week. #TodayILearned #TIL

Answering the earlier question, the Maldives is apparently the only country on Earth which considers Friday the first day of the week. #TodayILearned #TIL

Answering the earlier question, the Maldives is apparently the only country on Earth which considers Friday the first day of the week. #TodayILearned #TIL

Today I learned:

Before marking up emphasised passages in a text using italic type or bold type became a thing, there was rubrication: the practice of writing important passages and other parts of a text that required emphasis in red ink.

This did not only include cases we would use italic type for today, but also things like headings or initial letters in a line.

And occasionally, rubrication was used to mark up instructions, e. g. for a priest; the black coloured text would be the text to be spoken aloud, and the red coloured text would contain the instructions for the speaker.

Scribes would sit in their scriptorium (if they had one) and just mark up emphasised passages in red ink. Such scribes were called rubricators.

Some bible editions, called Red Letter Editions, used red ink to mark up words spoken by Jesus Christ specifically.

#til #todayILearned #bookbinding #books #writing #linguistics #history #typesetting #printing

Today I learned:

Before marking up emphasised passages in a text using italic type or bold type became a thing, there was rubrication: the practice of writing important passages and other parts of a text that required emphasis in red ink.

This did not only include cases we would use italic type for today, but also things like headings or initial letters in a line.

And occasionally, rubrication was used to mark up instructions, e. g. for a priest; the black coloured text would be the text to be spoken aloud, and the red coloured text would contain the instructions for the speaker.

Scribes would sit in their scriptorium (if they had one) and just mark up emphasised passages in red ink. Such scribes were called rubricators.

Some bible editions, called Red Letter Editions, used red ink to mark up words spoken by Jesus Christ specifically.

#til #todayILearned #bookbinding #books #writing #linguistics #history #typesetting #printing

Today I learned:

Before marking up emphasised passages in a text using italic type or bold type became a thing, there was rubrication: the practice of writing important passages and other parts of a text that required emphasis in red ink.

This did not only include cases we would use italic type for today, but also things like headings or initial letters in a line.

And occasionally, rubrication was used to mark up instructions, e. g. for a priest; the black coloured text would be the text to be spoken aloud, and the red coloured text would contain the instructions for the speaker.

Scribes would sit in their scriptorium (if they had one) and just mark up emphasised passages in red ink. Such scribes were called rubricators.

Some bible editions, called Red Letter Editions, used red ink to mark up words spoken by Jesus Christ specifically.

#til #todayILearned #bookbinding #books #writing #linguistics #history #typesetting #printing

Today I learned:

Before marking up emphasised passages in a text using italic type or bold type became a thing, there was rubrication: the practice of writing important passages and other parts of a text that required emphasis in red ink.

This did not only include cases we would use italic type for today, but also things like headings or initial letters in a line.

And occasionally, rubrication was used to mark up instructions, e. g. for a priest; the black coloured text would be the text to be spoken aloud, and the red coloured text would contain the instructions for the speaker.

Scribes would sit in their scriptorium (if they had one) and just mark up emphasised passages in red ink. Such scribes were called rubricators.

Some bible editions, called Red Letter Editions, used red ink to mark up words spoken by Jesus Christ specifically.

#til #todayILearned #bookbinding #books #writing #linguistics #history #typesetting #printing

Jimi Hendrix was a big fan of the long running soap opera Coronation Street, and specifically the character Ena Sharples.
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#TrueFacts

Spoiler Alert: The break-up of AT&T in the early 80's directly lead to the development of UTP. I did NOT know that when I woke up this morning!

#retrocomputing #til #todayilearned #retronetworking #theserialport #clabretro

TWISTED: The dramatic history of twisted-pair Ethernet https://youtube.com/watch?v=f8PP5IHsL8Y

#TodayILearned #TIL #AlmaMater literally means #Nourishing #Mother.