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Dana Sibera posts strange and wonderful computer hardware to @NanoRaptor@bitbang.social. Marcin Wichary wrote about her cursed universes on his Shift Happens newsletter.
- The cursed universes of Dana Sibera The Kickstarter for Shift Happens still has 10 days to go. Please help us get to $700,000 and unlock a free nice colorful third-volume for everyone by...
Noted by Damian Cugley 1 year, 7 months ago.
- Dana Sibera
- gallery
- hardware
- retro
Printing Films: an archive of industrial films about printing, typography, & journalism. Including ‘Farewell etaoin shrdlu’, about the last night of hot metal typesetting at The New York Times.

(Via @boldmonday on Twitter)
- Printing Films Archive A website dedicated to preserving the visual history of the printed word
Noted by Damian Cugley 2 years, 1 month ago.
- letterpress
- library
- printing
- retro
- video
MD Polychrome is a retro-futuristic type family inspired by the 1960s typefaces inspired by Magnetic Ink Character Recognition (MICR) symbols.

(Via @mass_driver_tm on Twitter)
- MD Polychrome Typeface MD Polychrome is a display typeface based on the unique ‘retro high-tech’ aesthetic of Magnetic Ink Character Recognition (MICR), and the pre-digital fonts which it inspired.
Noted by Damian Cugley 2 years, 1 month ago.
- font
- Mass Driver
- retro
- typeface
Entertaining twitter thread on a bug (that wasn't a bug really) caused by changing keyboard-layout conventions and the accommodations made to support old keyboards on new computers.
- @figmadesign on Twitter This is a story of a Figma bug that wasn’t a bug at all. In November of 2019, one of our users reported this: ⁝ MW
Noted by Damian Cugley 3 years, 5 months ago.
- programming
- retro
Short silent film of aerial footage from a dirigible piloted by Roy Knabenshue in 1914 over Chicago.

(Via Aerial Footage of Chicago from a Dirigible (1914))
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SxCFCoI2pj
Noted by Damian Cugley 3 years, 6 months ago.
- Chicago
- dirigible
- retro
The 1992 hacking film Sneakers has a press kit in the form of a floppy disk with DOS program, which modern web technology allows you to run in your web browser.

(Via @powersoffour on Twitter)
- Sneakers Computer Press Kit : Universal City Studios : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive Released in conjuction with the computer hacking movie Sneakers (1992), this floppy-based computer press kit contained many of the aspects of regular movie...
Noted by Damian Cugley 4 years, 4 months ago.
- film
- presskit
- retro
Twitter thread on Jean Paul Gaultier’s circuit-board-inspired fashions from the Millenium Bug era of the 1990s.
- johnny gin&tonic on Twitter “just found out about jean paul gaultier's knitted circuit board collection from 1995 these fucking rule”
Noted by Damian Cugley 4 years, 7 months ago.
- fashion
- Jean Paul Gaultier
- knit
- retro
This is a cloud computing version of the venerable BBC Micro. You tweet to the bot a fragment of BBC Basic and it responds with an animated GIF of the screen 20 seconds in to your program. Check out is timeline to see some really impressively concise graphics demos.
- BBC Micro bot
Noted by Damian Cugley 4 years, 9 months ago.
Samuel R. Delaney's on-point 1977 review of Star Wars. (Via Lee Brimmicombe-Wood on FaceBook.)

(Via Samuel Delany's 1977 Star Wars review: why is the future so damned white and male?)
- kaninchenzero: gwillow: samueldelany: Samuel Delany reviews the first Star Wars movie, 1977, in Cosmos Science Fiction and Fantasy. “The PC police are ruining SF/F! We need to go back to the good ole days!” Here is Samuel R. Delany reviewing Star Wars Episode IV–and critiquing it for its lack of women and POC characters. In 1977. You’re very welcome. (His response to the old “It’s just entertainment!” chestnut? Muting half of humanity is not entertaining.) This, right here, is how it is possible to love something–as Delany clearly loved Star Wars–yet recognize its flaws and discuss them in an intelligent, productive way. “Star Wars, as far as I can tell, has no story at all” god bless you, chip delany
Noted by Damian Cugley 5 years, 1 month ago.
Twitter thread of old-timey computers with absurdly small screens back when screens were impressively expensive.
- Marcin Wichary on Twitter “Hello, stranger. I’m glad you decided to join me on this impromptu tour of a somewhat forgotten era of computing: the time when Screens Were Expensive – and so computers had no choice but to use smaller screens, small screens, and even ridiculously tiny screens. Shall we…?”
Noted by Damian Cugley 5 years, 2 months ago.
- gallery
- hardware
- retro
- twitter
Remember the hardware virus spread through meeting-room DVI cables?

(Via Marcin Wichary on Twitter)
- The meeting room hardware virus
Noted by Damian Cugley 5 years, 4 months ago.
- hardware
- retro