RAS Syndrom strikes yet again.

I think this is what they are referring to: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broughton_Suspension_Bridge.

TL;DR: The bridge collapsed because soldiers marching on it created force they hadn’t anticipated, soldiers breaking step supposedly don’t have as much of an impact.

Thanks a lot for the recommendation, I did enjoy the read!

I was wondering about encryption (is this what you’re talking about?) because these algorithms change so frequently I’d be surprised if they had anything back then considered ‘secure’ by now.

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Sorry for the tags, but otherwise I would have had to respond to all your comments individually.

I also wanted to read on, so I searched for the book and found a page where it was possible to ‘read a preview’

You can, another comment mentioned that. Only, I didn’t mean to spread misinformation because I haven’t used anything else in years.

I feel this, I like to see my wallpaper

I was amazed to find out you can open a new tab by using middle-click in firefox.

Fair point. My browser (FF) supports ‘search in tabs’ as well and suggest it over a new search engine result when typed in the address bar. I don’t know what about the style makes me think this, but it looks like FF on Windows in the Screenshot.