Ctesibius of Alexandria, was a Greek inventor and mathematician from the 3rd century BCE. He is often hailed as the father of pneumatics and a pioneer in hydraulics. Born in Alexandria, Egypt, he flourished around 285–222 BCE. His most notable contributions include advancements in hydraulic engineering and pneumatics. Ctesibius is credited with inventing the hydraulis, the earliest form of the pipe organ. He made improvements to the water clock, which for more than 1, 800 years remained as the most accurate clock yet. He is also considered the discoverer of the siphon principle.
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Guy 2: Actually this is a "hydraulis"!
Guy 1: What.
Guy 2: It was invented by Ctesibius of Alexandria back in ancient Greece!
Guy 1: What.
Guy 2: The piano only got invented in 1698 by Bartolomeo Cristofori!
Guy 1: I don't wanna be friends anymore.
Guy 2: Actually this is a "hydraulis"!
Guy 1: What.
Guy 2: It was invented by Ctesibius of Alexandria back in ancient Greece!
Guy 1: What.
Guy 2: The piano only got invented in 1698 by Bartolomeo Cristofori!
Guy 1: I don't wanna be friends anymore.
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Alexandria Incidents are massive losses of data that intentionally or unintentionally take down part or the whole of a service's data at once.
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The name, Alexandria Incident, comes from the burning of the library of Alexandria.
Geocities died intentionally, and the loss was the death of the whole service, and thus is considered an A type Alexandria Incident.
The Myspace Data Loss Incident was unintentional, and was the loss of only a portion of the service, and thus is considered a B type Alexandria Incident.
The Tumblr porn ban was intentional, and was a loss of only a portion of the service, and is thus a C type
The Theoretical D type, where the data loss was unintentional and resulted in service wide data loss happens usually to small scale services, or large services in their early days, I do not know of many good examples of this if any
The name, Alexandria Incident, comes from the burning of the library of Alexandria.
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It originates from the burning down of the library of Alexandria, to disperse information and culture in a way to prevent people from being able to correlate and understand factual truth, or history.
It originates from the burning down of the library of Alexandria, to disperse information and culture in a way to prevent people from being able to correlate and understand factual truth, or history.
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