This Day In Site History: June 18, 1910

Today we go back in the archives to see what was happening on the site on this day… 99 years ago:

So I go down to the nickelodeon to try and get the latest on the going’s-on in Nicaragua, when…

On the damn newsreel all they were showing was some bull about who Mary Pickford was dating and that President Taft had swatted a mosquito during an interview! (the telegraph is so much more up-to-date and relevant)

I’m pretty sure though that as this technology stuff advances the coverage of all news is going to get less and less trivial over time…