Historical material is often intellectually interesting and that's more than enough to make on topic for Hacker News. See https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

Sometimes detritus is even more interesting than important things! keep in mind that we're optimizing this site for nothing more serious than idle curiosity. Whimsy is part of that.

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