Grateful Dead Live at Madison Square Garden on 1979-01-07

This might be slightly off topic if /nostalgia is focused just on the 90s, but this took me to a place that existed before I was born and I was still nostalgic for it. I was thinking of of @PlasterSlug mentioning "Ripple" as the song to be played at their funeral here:

https://digg.com/music/jSTgxKg/what-song-do-you-want-played

Then I was reading up on Irwin Altman and social penetration theory, which took me to his book on the internet archive:

https://archive.org/details/socialpenetratio00altm/page/n5/mode/2up

And I found this to share with PlasterSlug.

The Internet Archive is a treasure trove of nostalgia and true history that is being archived. Wayback Machine. Texts. Music. Art.

I had a short conversation last night with @abbassa and then read some of his research on the Ummayad Caliphate which was responsible for archiving many of the Greek and Roman texts after the fall of the Roman Empire. Had they not taken these to Baghdad to translate and eventually return to Europe through their 800 year occupation of the Iberian Peninsula, history would have looked very different. The "Moors" in Spain returned Europe's knowledge through big "translation factories" in Toledo where they worked to archive and share knowledge and culture. This then led to the Rennaisance over hundreds of years, medical textbooks, algebra, navigation, and ultimately, The Grateful Dead!

Enjoy!