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The Coming Information Utility, Now Gone and Everywhere
ASCII by Jason Scott —
Authority: 551
The file is downloadable here . Here’s a local copy of this file: WesternUnionStrategicPlans_1965 I don’t expect a person coming in from the cold to spontaneously read a 17-page, weirdly-scanned document without some sort of context. So let me give it that context. This internal Western Union memo from 1965, ...2 days ago -
“Start Me Up”1995
The Pop History Dig —
Authority: 104
[...] In 1995, Bill Gates of the Microsoft Corporation paid millions to use a popular Rolling Stones rock ’n roll song from the 1980s named “Start Me Up” to help launch and promote his company’s new Windows 95 computer software... The song’s use in TV advertising was part of Microsoft’s $300 million global ...5 days ago -
The TEXTFILES.COM Information Cube 1.0
ASCII by Jason Scott —
Authority: 551
This Friday, I was at my brother’s compound helping oversee the installation of a secret project, now revealed: The Information Cube. That’s my little brother and the driver, discussing the best way to offload this monster onto the property. At 40 feet by 8 feet by 8 feet, this is a storage container which ...1 week ago -
GestaltIT Techfieldday 2009: Post 8 (Day 1)
StorageNerve —
Authority: 419
Today marks the first day of the two day GestaltIT Techfieldday 2009. As described on previous blog posts , this is a very unique event and will be an industry trendsetter. A very nice blog post by John Troyer from Vmware describing GestaltIT #Techfieldday and the wave it is creating in the industry, here We had ...1 week ago -
[ Retro Scan of the Week ] Corvus Apple II Hard Drive
Vintage Computing and Gaming —
Authority: 413
The snail was not amused. Wow. $5,350 for a 10 megabyte hard drive system that’s almost as big as your computer. What a bargain! It’s like a tiny coffin for your data. In case you’re taking notes, this Corvus hard disk system sold for $15,915.07 in 2009 US dollars. Its retail price constituted [...]1 week ago -
Displaying Toys
Branedy —
Authority: 110
Conor got a cheap thrill from some of my Amazing Collection of computer Toys that I brought to the BarCampCork III meet up. I was more than happy to bring them out for an airing, although my back, and Walter’s will be thanking us later for our efforts. I would definitely offer (like in free beer) the ...1 week ago -
Time to build a Cork Computer History Museum
Conor's Bandon Blog —
Authority: 482
We have buildings all over Cork, empty. We have a recession. The hospitality industry is crippled. We need something that encourages tourism, makes use of some of that property and points the way to the future. Can I suggest a Cork Computer History Museum? What’s one of the biggest attractions in Silicon Valley? ...2 weeks ago -
Archive Team: Pssst, Want Some MIDI?
ASCII by Jason Scott —
Authority: 551
Hey, remember those MIDI backgrounds so popular on some websites over the years? Sometimes the songs were great. Sometimes they really weren’t. For some people, the sound of “My Heart Will Go On” playing over a memorial site or “Crazy” (by Patsy Cline) playing over your personal weblog page was the height of ...2 weeks ago -
LinkExtend The Ultimate Browsing Tool For Browsers !
vhxn.com —
Authority: 485
This is a new type addon developed for Firefox users to make their work as simple as possible. The name of the addon is LinkExtend that provides meta-site rating for computer safety, child safety, company ethics and popularity. You can have these safety results from eight online services that are able to bring a safer ...2 weeks ago -
Three Notebooks
ASCII by Jason Scott —
Authority: 551
Three explorers set out. One wanted to rescue comrades. One wanted to talk to new people. One wanted to meet people and bring back knowledge. They never met, but that’s to be expected – they set out at different times, using different ships, to different destinations. One was Robert Wilson Andrews of the ...2 weeks ago -
Jason Scott Needs Your Help
Vintage Computing and Gaming —
Authority: 413
Jason Scott is a singular fellow. He’s the man behind the BBS Documentary, the upcoming Get Lamp documentary (on text adventure games), and creator of textfiles.com. He also spearheaded a recent attempt to archive all of Geocities before Yahoo took it down recently. This fellow historian, friend of VC&G, and ...2 weeks ago -
A Short History of Spelling Things R0ng
ASCII by Jason Scott —
Authority: 551
This happens more than it should: I am engaged in a roundabout fashion with a person or persons whose work parallels/compliments mine, I acknowledge they’re doing good work, whatever it is, but I don’t just sit down and sift through their work. I have no idea why this happens. Jealousy? Fear of copying good ideas? ...2 weeks ago -
The Last Artgroup
ASCII by Jason Scott —
Authority: 551
In the BBS Documentary, I dedicated an entire episode to the Artscene, the massive collection of groups doing ANSI artwork for bulletin board systems. I interviewed members of iCE and ACiD (and a bunch of others) and showed both the breathtaking variety of art they’d make, the political battles over the ...3 weeks ago -
Inside the Atari 800 (30th Anniversary)
Vintage Computing and Gaming —
Authority: 413
Thirty years ago this fall, Atari shipped its first entries in the personal computer market, the Atari 800 and 400 computers. I’m particularly fond of the Atari 8-bit series because I grew up with an 800 as my first computer and video game machine — it was especially potent and impressive in the pre-NES [...]3 weeks ago -
Vintage vs. Modern PC Prices
Vintage Computing and Gaming —
Authority: 413
Amongst all the heady VC&G anniversary festivities (I’ve been to five parties this week alone*), I almost forgot to tell you about a new VC&G-related article that popped up last week on Technologizer. It’s by a guy named Benj Edwards, which probably explains why I’m writing about it here. For my latest ...3 weeks ago -
[ Retro Scan of the Week ] 30 Years of VisiCalc
Vintage Computing and Gaming —
Authority: 413
Reminds me of a Superman comic book cover. Thirty years ago this October, Personal Software unleashed VisiCalc, the world’s first spreadsheet software for personal computers, onto an unsuspecting computer populace. Invented and developed by Dan Bricklin and Bob Frankston of Software Arts, VisiCalc has become ...3 weeks ago -
Geocities Saved!
ASCII by Jason Scott —
Authority: 551
OK, so here’s the high-level report: We Saved Geocities! Obviously, this needs a truckload of qualifications, so let’s go over them immediately. First of all “We” is not just Archive Team , badass archivist motherfuckers that we are. While probably 30-40 people from around the world stopped in on the ...4 weeks ago -
Happy 40th Birthday to... The Internet?
Plain English Computer Basics Tips and How-To Training by Worth Godwin —
Authority: 93
Well, there may be no cake, but yesterday was a day to celebrate, because this year, October 29th marks forty years since the birth of the Internet!Yes, its true -- despite the fact that many people think it first started in the mid 1990s, the Internet actually got its first start all the way back in 1969. The exact ...4 weeks ago -
Geocities RIP
ASCII by Jason Scott —
Authority: 551
I am sure we all laughed at the end, there, when one of the members of Archive Team, slaving like the rest of us to yank data out, suggested a link to a Geocities page with a MIDI of “The Final Countdown” by Europe. The perfect tinny music to blast out of the speakers as we watched a massive site come grinding ...4 weeks ago -
History Of The Computer; The Emergence Of Electronics.
Computer Internet network security News —
Authority: 142
The history of the computer inevitably includes the development of electronics, we look at the explosive (!) growth of electronics in the late 1930s and early 1940s.If anything could be said in favor of war, it may be that it speeds up the development of technology. Of course much of that technology is employed in ...5 weeks ago
