#database history

[josephkravis]

My First Database Or Two

Before digital databases, there were manual, physical systems for data organization.

Oki dokie. Yes, this topic might seem a bit outdated, but it’s essential to revisit as we advance toward AI technologies capable of correlating vast amounts of data. As we move into this era, starting at the basics of organizing information with lists seems fitting. So, let’s go back to My First Database! Creating and Using Lists Lists are a foundational tool for organizing and prioritizing…

[seal-husband]

I've been working on putting together something fun!

The current categories are: nonfiction books, fiction books, poetry, games/3d environments, music, and web resources. At present the nonfiction section is the beefiest, cobbled together from various tumblr posts (including one showing the research shelf of The Terror's writers' room!).

This is intended to be a living, crowd-sourced document. Please feel free to submit additions, corrections, comments, and questions via Tumblr asks or messages.

[EDIT 7 Jan 25- added a Theater category for plays, opera, musicals, etc. ]

[shoezuki]

doctor fic. to me

THATS REAL THO LIKE. GENUINELY THATS WHAT MY SEARCH HISTORY LOOKED LIKEEBSODNDVDHF

holdon hold on lemme see if i can go back in my history n find some cuz thats so real

found some from when i was writing chapter 6

[bogkeep]

in the most recent patreon exclusive bonus episode of the very good podcast "if books could kill" michael hobbes has a very long tangent about a separate book he read for research (manhood in the making by david d gilmore) which is like, an anthropological study in what manhood means in various cultures across the world, and I Need This Book So Bad. i crave anthropological analysis of socially constructed gender roles in non-western cultures. but i must be patient. i found this book on a swedish bookstore but at the cost of too much money for a single book, and for a much more agreeable price on a norwegian bookstore - but they only ship to norway. in two months i will return. surely i can wait to months. i shall be so good and so patient

[throwing-roses-into-the-abyss]

I know this is interesting to no one because it's incredibly niche but I have a little mystery around mid-to-late 19th century mens waistcoats that I've been digging into, and so far, after digging into a bunch of local, provincial, and also national and international online archives, including but not limited to the Rijksmuseum, the V&A, LACMA, and KCI, and also asking about this on instagram and specifically asking the dutch costume society, I have found:

-9 pictures, all local to my area in eastern Netherlands, and every single one of these pictures is people wearing local folk dress -and one (1) extant garment, in the US and also made there.

that's it.

[thetrueparanormal]

A new paranormal artifact article documenting the Crying Boy paintings has been uploaded to the world's largest database of paranormal research 😄

[meyerlansky]

also when i tell you it's the biggest pain in my fucking ass trying to figure out what goddamn planes all these guys were in on each mission

i'm just cheating and making mota!curt's plane escape kit consistently, in STARK contrast to the actual service records which have him bouncing between at least four aircraft over a two month span

[ruebi-1]

Hey! By chance, does anyone know if there are any databases of world folklore and ancient cultures/civilizations? Doing some research for projects.

Bonus points if:

- the databases include photos of excavations, paintings, and pottery.

- includes ancient poetry and music

- includes some kind of timeline/adjustable filters

Bonus Bonus points if the website are devoted to ancient Africa and The Middle East/ the Arab world.

[yurislavlcathedral]

multitasking writing hetalia fanfiction while playing recorded lectures about the establishment of writing systems and language globally is a very humbling feeling. the hetalia to history major pipeline is real

[simeonscott]

Opening SHFs and Celebrating the Creators that got me into Toku! - Vacstream 8/29/2023

Gonna be streaming on Tuesday night, come join if ya can!

[phinnsyreads]

SCP-140 - An Incomplete Chronicle

by AssertiveRoland

https://www.scpdatapodcast.com/episodes/scp-140

[pancakeke]

I made a big report a year ago that compares what components were allocated to orders the previous week vs what are allocated now (accounting for consumption n such). it looks at 100% of inventory in 100% of locations. for the first 9 months I was just logging changes while no one gave a shit cause everyone blew off our weekly inventory meeting so there was no one to review anything. but no one can do that anymore :)

I have all the part numbers, quantities, dollar values, and customer accounts laid out very nicely so no one in sales can accuse supply chain of buying stuff for no reason when really they changed their orders around without telling anyone so they wouldn't have to admit making any mistakes.

this report hasn't made them stop trying to lie/hide things in the first place tho. maybe one day.

[thetrueparanormal]

A new article documenting Ammersoyen Castle, located in the Gelderland province of the Netherlands, has been uploaded to the world's largest database of paranormal research 😄

http://thetrueparanormal.blogspot.com/2025/05/ammersoyen-castle.html

[bastardbvby]

4 am deep dives are crazy because now im just here reading about the founding of romania like girl go to sleep

[schistostegapennata]

Have you ever agonized over trying to find out where Gandae is now while trying to cite an extremely old book in Latin? Or tugged at your hair while wailing in despair at the fact that Leucopetrae was the name for present-day Weissenfels, Germany? Are you tired of messing about with geographical tables from the same time period as the book you're researching just to see if you can track down where that weird name was on the map so you can compare it to a map from today and find out the city's name? Or maybe none of these apply to you and you actually just want to mess around with some cool Latin words?

Well, have I got the database for you!!! Go to Latin Place Names at https://rbms.info/lpn/, cause it is wonderful and I may or may not have started dancing around my living room and whooping gleefully when I found it

[iamthepulta]

Okay, the paper I found on ancient Cyprus mining is FASCINATING. It makes me wonder, because there are so many sources they're citing, 1) if there's juicy mining archeology drama 2) if there's a repository somewhere of all these papers 3) if I can become a secondary modern ancient archeology of mining resource repository.