2024/11/01

The origin of hats

• Felt as material

- Felt requires steam to shape to wearers head
- Folds originated from hat-makers turning excess felt inwards

• Felt berets

- Berets of armies
- Moulding beret, with hot water, steam and wearing

• How did civilian hats become millitary

- American revolutionairies were all civillians... (some were ex army), 

• Cowboy hats

- Leather, felt, suede etc.
- Folds and curves because of the properties of leather/felt

The decline of hats

• US President JFK didn't wear one during his inauguration

- Scandalous like Obama wearing a tan suit

• 60's saw men experimenting with haircuts

• Hat's still persist in some forms

- Working class baker hats are still around, although their descendant the 'cap' or 'snapback' has won the world over

Jargon

Used everyday...

• Daily driver
• Main
• Workhorse

Desk/Setup...

• Cockpit
• Battlestation

'Hyper'

• Greek word for above or upper

• HTML, 'hypertext markup language'

• Space Cadet keyboard has a dedicated 'hyper key'

- 'hyper' keycode also available in X11	

• Brains for motherboard

- 'mobo' is motherboard in shortened texting
- 'guts'

Installing Java on OpenBSD for a friend

• system is a class