// #True-Story
3 albums tagged with "True-Story".
Deflated
The story of Phil Katz, the programmer who created PKZIP and the .ZIP file format — one of the most ubiquitous file formats in computing history. Despite his creation being used by billions of people daily (.zip, .jar, .docx, .apk are all ZIP under the hood), Katz died alone at age 37 in Room 566 of a Milwaukee motel, surrounded by empty liquor bottles.
Zoot Suit Riots
June 1943, Los Angeles. U.S. servicemen - sailors and Marines - charter taxicabs and cruise into Mexican-American neighborhoods. They drag kids out of theaters, bars, streetcars. They strip them of their zoot suits, beat them bloody, burn their clothes in piles on the street. The police watch. Then arrest the victims.
Dark Tide
On January 15, 1919, a poorly-built molasses tank in Boston's North End exploded, unleashing 2.3 million gallons of molasses in a 35 mph wave that killed 21 people and injured 150 more. The victims were mostly Irish and Italian immigrants - the working class who lived in the shadow of a monster that the company knew was dangerous.