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1890 Census Links Frontier Closure, Computing Birth, and Immigration Policy

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The 1890 US Census serves as a historical 'fun cluster,' connecting seemingly disparate events through tenuous but legitimate links. These connections include the official end of the American frontier, the Wounded Knee massacre marking the end of the Indian Wars, and a symbolic inflection point for American labor and social mobility. The census data also influenced the discriminatory 1924 Immigration Act, and its processing challenges led to the development of Herman Hollerith's punched-card tabulating machines, a precursor to IBM and modern computing. AI

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1890 Census Links Frontier Closure, Computing Birth, and Immigration Policy

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  1. LessWrong (AI tag) TIER_1 English(EN) · Fernand0 ·

    The 1890 Census as a fun cluster

    <p><span>To better remember history, I try to find/create what I call "fun</span><span class="footnote-reference" id="fnrefqtgx3jiy58"><sup><a href="#fnqtgx3jiy58">[1]</a></sup></span><span> clusters", i.e. sets of events with a tenuous but legitimate connection to a central hub.…

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