Today we celebrate the birth of one of the greatest minds in history, dodge cruise ship germs, and take a hard left into ‘90s internet nostalgia. This batch of links wasn’t supposed to have a theme, but somehow it turned into a Ferris Bueller-fueled time warp with a splash of gastrointestinal dread. It’s part history, part cringe, and 100% proof that we’re all just making sense of chaos with hyperlinks.
On this day in 1452, Leonardo Davinci was born: https://news.artnet.com/art-world/leonardo-da-vinci-headlines-2025-2631662
Not that I’d really want to go on a cruise, but now I really don’t want to go on a cruise: https://www.cruiselawnews.com/2025/04/articles/norovirus/centers-for-disease-control-stops-inspecting-cruise-ships-for-cleanliness/
I’ll admit it, the only reason I know what this photo is supposed to be is because of Ferris Bueller’s Day Off: https://mymodernmet.com/seurat-recreation-beloit/
My little trip down memory lane last week was followed by another. The state of the Internet 30 years ago: https://cybercultural.com/p/internet-1995/
Speaking of the Internet Stone Age, a fellow GenXer looks back on the beginning of the Web and how what’s old sometimes becomes new again: https://janerationx.com/posts/in-the-beginning
Is this link post beginning to reek of nostalgia?