My Digital History Site

While reading Digital History A Guide to Gathering, Preserving, and Presenting the Past On the Web and watching the You Tube video on the development of the Internet, two things interested me.  First, while reading about all the codes needed to build a website from the ground up, I was reminded of my mother’s stories of when she would prepare copy for the typesetter by entering different typed codes before and after text to be capitalized or italisized to get the desired final product.  Now it seems built into word processing. Second, while watching the video I was amazed that the internet’s origins involved scientific, military, and commercial ventures. From this I learned that many concepts we have as human beings merely change forms as history progresses, but still keep their core, and that many improvements are the results of several different factors, goals, and enterprises.

Three topics I’d be interested in blogging about are:

1. The Practicioners of Folk-Magic and Their Relationship with Early Medieval Society.

2. The Scientific Magi: the Intellectual Students of Alchemy and Astrology

3. Post-Reformation Mania and Fear of Occultism.

~ by graham19 on September 4, 2012 .