💀 May – Captain Donner Dies on the Trail (May 14, 1847)

In the mid-1600s, coffee was brought to New Amsterdam, later called New York by the British.

When the colonists revolted against a heavy tax on tea imposed by King George III, known as the Boston Tea Party, it changed the American drinking preference to coffee.

The most infamous comment in the Unix source code is “You are not expected to understand this,” which appeared before some hairy context-switching code. It turned out that Dennis Ritchie and co-author Ken Thompson didn’t understand it themselves and later had to rewrite it.

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As 2020 settles, we look at the eclectic, vibrant music trends in the last decade, when the music turned truly global, glossy and digital, and when the iPod generation turned to stream endless playlists on their smartphones.