Bloody Sunday, also known as the Bogside Massacre, was a massacre of Irish anti-internment protesters by the British government that took place on this day in 1972 in the Bogside area of Derry, Northern Ireland.
Bloody Sunday resulted in the highest number of people killed in a shooting incident during the Troubles and remains the worst mass shooting in Northern Irish history. This violence was in response to a protest organized by the Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association (NICRA) in opposition to a state policy of internment without trial, introduced in August of 1971.
On January 18th, 1972, Prime Minister of Northern Ireland Brian Faulkner banned all parades and marches in response to widespread civil unrest. The protest march was organized despite this order.
On the day of the protest, approximately 10,000-15,000 joined the march, however their path was blocked by British Army barriers. The protest descended into chaos, with British soldiers chasing down protesters and attacking them indiscriminately. 26 people were shot, 14 were killed. Many of the victims were shot while fleeing from the soldiers or attending to the wounded, while others were injured by shrapnel, rubber bullets, batons, or being ran down by army vehicles.
The soldiers were from the 1st Battalion Parachute Army, which had perpetrated the Ballymurphy Massacre just months prior. The events of Bloody Sunday greatly increased hostilities between Northern Ireland and the British government. Support for and recruitment by the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) rose following the massacre.
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Just learned about Project Xanadu. Wtf. How have I never heard of this? Can't tell if it's a weird system worthy of study and some guy and his Time-Cube-like project lol
The guy who designed this says Tim Berners-Lee stole his idea for the web lmao
We're all damn lucky that Ted Nelson failed to launch Xanadu. It was an interesting early thought-experiment in hypertext and multimedia concepts, but many of the "17 rules" of the design are a privacy nightmare. The ones I have the biggest beef with are:
No anonymous servers.
No anonymous users.
"Every document can contain a royalty mechanism at any desired degree of granularity to ensure payment on any portion accessed, including virtual copies ("transclusions") of all or part of the document."
"Every Xanadu service provider can charge their users at any rate they choose for the storage, retrieval and publishing of documents."
Enjoy getting charged a microtransaction every time you click a link!
And by "transaction", Nelson meant what we would now call "viewing a web page". Enjoy having your entire browsing history formally recorded for later review by others.
Nelson claimed to have wanted to create a repository of human knowledge, but what he was proposing was basically a zero-privacy heavily-DRM'd bookstore. He wanted to make sure authors like himself got their piece of the action in a digital world, and to hell with all other concerns. Fuck Project Xanadu, and fuck Ted Nelson. We're all damned lucky that he has no technical skills and couldn't create his hellworld-web.
Having now done like an hour of reading on this system lol, I generally agree
As a non-hypertext person (as in non-gendered type of guy), I think he has some good ideas but his system is, on the whole, a libertarian-brained nightmare that he has placed far too much importance on in expecting it to solve "world problems" single-handedly
Holy fuck this is a Kola Superdeep Rabbithole
Despite the weird ideas about privacy and monetization, there's a lot of worthwhile thought about how to organize text in a digital way in Nelson's writing. It's unbelievable to me that the best, or at least most usable, way to format a longer piece of writing for online publication is to lay it out as a book and then print it as PDF. Like, page numbers are still the unsurpassed way of pointing out a location in a text and there's also no alternative to quotation marks and references. Funnily enough, wikis implement a lot of Nelson's more sensible ideas, like a version history, functioning links and transclusion, but they're just not used to their full possibilities anywhere. And I still want to see someone implement the ability to zoom out of a text to see its parts summarized at different levels of detail, which I don't think anyone has ever done.