‘geek holiday’ Archive

April 23: Pixel-Stained Technopeasant Day

Geek Holiday: International Pixel-Stained Technopeasant Day. Created in 2007 by Jo Walton in response to a rant by Howard V. Hendrix about people publishing their works for free on the internet. Geek Events to celebrate on April 23: 1867 – William Lincoln patents the zoetrope, a machine that shows animated pictures by mounting a strip […]

January 15: Korean Alphabet Day

Geek Holiday: : Korean Alphabet Day Also called Hangul Day or Hangul Proclamation Day, this Korean national day of commemoration (unfortunately no longer a legal holiday) celebrates the invention and the proclamation of hangul (ν•œκΈ€), the native alphabet of the Korean language, by King Sejong the Great. It is observed on January 15 in North […]