Did you know Monopoly was invented by a woman named Elizabeth Magie in 1903?

Originally ‘The Landlord’s Game,’ it was designed as a protest against the big monopolists of her time like Carnegie & Rockefeller.

But it was Charles Darrow, an unemployed salesman, who eventually sold it to Parker Brothers after playing a version.

Parker Brothers credited Monopoly with saving their company. Magie died in 1948 without recognition. Darrow became very wealthy & his legend lives on. #history #women

We created the account at Mastodon only a week ago and this community here grown to over 32,000.

Thank you for welcoming us here, thank you for all boosts, comments, advice, support and your engagement.

We are still learning and try to find our specific language on this platform. Your feedback is much appreciated.

Remember with us and amplify our voice.

#mastodon #Memorial #NeverForget #history #education #memory #Remember #followerpower #follow #Holocaust #Shoah #community #fediverse

20,000+ followers here at #Mastodon after less than three days is a huge encouragement.

Thank you for welcoming us in #fediverse and for your incredible support. We need it. The #memory needs it.

#NeverForget #Auschwitz #history
@histodons

This amazing map shows travel time from London the rest of the world in 1881
#history #dataviz #travel

#history #weird #french #kings #royalty

#introduction #introductions

Hi all, I'm jmechner on #Twitter #Instagram, new here! I do #videogames, #books, #screenwriting and #comics.

I made #PrinceofPersia and #Karateka on #AppleII using rotoscoped #animation & released my #gamedev #journal. Nowadays I write & draw #graphicnovels #BD and #sketchbook #sketching. I'm from #USA, live in #France.

Interested in #drawing #art #illustration #games #gaming #retrogames #retrogaming #film #cinema #tech #technology #history. Suggestions welcome!

#neuhier Hi everyone, I‘m a historian working on #media #history and, currently, the history of informal transport in African cities. Beyond that I‘m interested in #theory, especially theories of #ideology and #work, and #Marxist theory especially from #Africa. I‘m not yet sure what to do with this account and since I want to do something different from Twitter, will post reflections on my current theoretical obsessions.

I moved instances, so I'm reposting my #introduction.

I enjoy #coffee #tea #reading #sff #history #cooking #singing.

I'm #queer #gay #lgbtq #iconoclast. I #create #software.

I have a weekly #newsletter with stuff I've enjoyed over the preceding week and how it relates to engendering #empathy and social resilience.

My #politics tend to be #progressive #centrist: I want the world to be a better place for everyone while maximizing agency for everyone. I'm sympathetic to #EffectiveAltruism.

#Introduction post.
I'm Logan, thirty-something living in the #PacificNorthwest and working in #Education. I'm interested in #urbanism, #history, #science, history of science, #StarTrek, and #cat photos.
#Gay, He/Him. Trans rights are human rights.

#Introduction: I'm a #gay, married, cis man, in #Seattle. I work in #urbanplanning. I used to work in #historicpreservation and am #historian of #modernism in #architecture in #Hawaii and #Oregon

I have #adhd which I sometimes manage. I run an #omeka site, watch boring #history #documentaries and play cutesy #indiegames.

I'm #black ✊🏾 but have a white fam. I don't think they meant to adopt a #mixedrace kid. God's joke on them! I also grew up all over so... weird, wondering identity.

#history #war #humor #engineering

#model #sex #sexy #cucumber #history #egypt

I'm prepared to believe that you didn't notice any coughing at night after this.

#medicine #cough #cannabis #morphinesulfate #history #humor

There a pervasive belief that I've been guilty of that humanity in 1900 (and before) was completely off on questions of health and medicine compared to now. This still relevant document proves our ascendants knew some of their shit while the current antivax movement proves we aren't much better off now. #history

I remember when computers used to be built into keyboards. It was in-between the massive all-in-one computers with built-in tiny monitors and keyboard and before the horizontal desktop cases.
#computer #history #old