Not that it changes your point, but the summary says an 18mm rise over 24 years (starting in 2000), which (per the article) averages 0.75mm/year.

The summary failed to mention that this is the program that, more than 3 years later, has not connected a single customer or even begun construction. There are many news articles about it; I found one on MSN from 7 months ago. Perhaps a re-evaluation of the approach is warranted.

Additionally, the FAA can grant a waiver allowing operations over people (or moving vehicles) if they decide that a proposed small UAS operation can safely be conducted. The waiver process for commercial part 107 operators is on the FAA's web site:
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.faa.gov%2Fuas%2Fcommercial_operators%2Fpart_107_waivers

The Sentinel article doesn't specifically mention whether the drone show was operating under an FAA waiver.

The FAA Part 107 regulations for drone pilots are also designed to protect people on the ground.
Specifically, the U.S. FAA regulation is 14 CFR Part 107.39 Operations over human beings.

No person may operate a small unmanned aircraft over a human being unless—
(a) That human being is directly participating in the operation of the small unmanned aircraft;
(b) That human being is located under a covered structure or inside a stationary vehicle that can provide reasonable protection from a falling small unmanned aircraft; or
(c) The operation meets the requirements of at least one of the operational categories specified in subpart D of this part.

(Subpart D describes categorized drones, of which there are very few models.)

Specifically, the U.S. FAA regulation is 14 CFR Part 107.39 Operations over human beings.

No person may operate a small unmanned aircraft over a human being unless—
(a) That human being is directly participating in the operation of the small unmanned aircraft;
(b) That human being is located under a covered structure or inside a stationary vehicle that can provide reasonable protection from a falling small unmanned aircraft; or
(c) The operation meets the requirements of at least one of the operational categories specified in subpart D of this part.

(Subpart D describes categorized drones, of which there are very few models.)

I was driving near Shenandoah National Park in Virginia a few weeks ago, and several of the towns we went through had electronic signs on their main road telling people to conserve water because they were in a drought.

Thanks for summarizing so many aspects of the net's growth! An important part of the history that you skipped over is that the first commercial ISP was UUNET, predating ANSNET. UUNET also as far as I can determine offered the world's first web and anonymous FTP server hosting services (shared and dedicated), predating Geocities by several months. UUNET initially used BSDI BSD/386 (later rebranded BSD/OS) for web hosting, and later also Windows NT, FreeBSD, Linux, and Solaris (ANS Communications, purchased from AOL in 1997). I was the lead developer for the BSD and Linux based hosting platform, which was mostly automated using template-based provisioning driven from a database, which first was University Ingres, then XDB, then Postgresql. UUNET web hosting servers were in Fairfax, VA, with some of the ANS Solaris group based in New York state.

UUNET was the hosting platform for sex.com and many other porn sites during the 1990s and got a reputation as a spam source as a result. The salespeople weren't bothered by the fact that those sites rarely paid their bills, and the company was in no hurry to shut off their service. UUNET sadly was swallowed up and destroyed by WorldCom.

Most airplane pilots these days use an iPad to replace a stack of books and chart printouts, take notes on weather and clearances, make calculations, and often to file flight plans and keep track of other airplanes nearby. There's no question about the iPad's usefulness in aviation.

Pilot/skydiver/YouTuber Dan Gryder has done more thorough research and interviews over a 20 year span and concluded in 2021 that he knows D.B. Cooper's identity. I don't personally care who Cooper was, but here is an article summarizing his conclusions:

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcowboystatedaily.com%2F2021%2F12%2F19%2Fpilot-says-hes-solved-d-b-cooper-case%2F

I did too, at least a year ago.

Most diesel locomotives are electric, but not all. There are some diesel-hydraulic locomotives in Europe. A few German imports by Krauss Maffei were tried in the U.S. in the 1960s but they weren't reliable enough and were retired. One is running currently on a tourist railroad, the Niles Canyon Railway... in California.

Try a Sony A6000 (or later similar models for more money). The kit zoom lens retracts to make the camera not much bigger than a point and shoot, but with vastly better image quality. It fits in a purse but takes pictures like a DSLR. You don't need to use its ability to change lenses.

I too used Quel in University Ingres, in the mid-1990s. When we switched to SQL databases (Sybase, Postgresql, XDB) it felt like a step backward. Quel felt more natural. SQL has since been extended far beyond what Quel could do I'm sure, but it was a practical alternative relational query language.

Dropbox double-counts quotas (actually N-counts). Files that other people have shared with you count toward your quota as well as theirs.
I had to upgrade to a paid account just because someone else shared a large folder with me, using up all of my quota.
Here's that policy:
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fhelp.dropbox.com%2Faccounts-billing%2Fspace-storage%2Fstorage-space

At the end of the Super Bowl tonight, one team can say "NOW I WON".