[HN Gopher] We've had a Denisovan skull since the 1930s--only no...
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       We've had a Denisovan skull since the 1930s--only nobody knew
        
       Author : Bluestein
       Score  : 36 points
       Date   : 2025-06-19 06:42 UTC (3 days ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (arstechnica.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (arstechnica.com)
        
       | adampwells wrote:
       | https://www.science.org/content/article/dragon-man-skull-bel...
        
       | pyman wrote:
       | This reminds me of the day I found an old storage disk, an
       | ancient "floppy disk", in my dad's attic. It had a label that
       | said: "Tommy's bookmarks". My mum doesn't remember any of his
       | friends or colleagues named Tommy. In Uruguay, that's a common
       | nickname for Tomas. They were probably website URLs, all long
       | extinct by now (I'd guess).
        
         | Bluestein wrote:
         | Funny to imagine how (indeed) such floppies 'intersected" -
         | technologywise - with the early web ...
        
           | whatevertrevor wrote:
           | Sounds like this was pre search engines, so Tommy's bookmarks
           | might just be a collection of cool sites that was spread peer
           | to peer. I remember getting CDs of curated games and demos in
           | the late 90s (and not just licensed demos from computer
           | magazines, but also cracked versions of games that went
           | around).
        
             | absurdo wrote:
             | Any rare games that you remember that stood out?
        
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