Early Twentieth Century Photos, or thereabouts
Shorpy is the 100 year-old Photoblog. Well, the blog is not 100 years-old.
Found via Dinosaurs and Robots.
IBM wants to show you the future
It’s 1975, and IBM wants to show you the future. A slideshow of images. That’s a real slideshow, by the way, of real slides. No powerpoint, no laptops, no digital projects. A carousel.
Click. Click. Click
But is it good ENOUGH?
Scott Beale takes us through the Consumer Reports test-photo archives.
This is such an abuse of a wonderful technology.
Shredding an Asteroids cabinet in microseconds.
Paper Games
Pong as a choose-your-own-adventure book.
Interesting idea, which upon reflection seems very boring. And the specific implementation interface is horrible
The French have an, uhm, curious way with copmuter commercials.
Life on the margins is always more interesting.
A review of Fringeware.
Sometimes Apples SHOULD be Eaten
Thank you, Eve.
Were it not for your inspiring example, few would be playing with forbidden fruit.
Instead, we are gifted with the knowledge of experiments like running Second Life on an Apple ][c.
Well, technically the modern PC is running Second Life, and the Apple is streaming the video. Still, full-motion video on an 8-bit machine? I’m impressed.
A Pictoral History of Calculating Machine Storage Devices
Earliest audio-recording re-surfaces
It was never designed for playback — it’s a phonautogram, and it predates Edison’s “Mary Had a Little Lamb” by 20 years.
Which is a misleading statistic, because the big deal about MHLL was the playback. It’s like having videotape before the television….