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Go browse https://www.archive.org https://www.archive.org -- you won't regret it. There's no telling what you'll find, in all languages, from all eras, from ma
by PostOnce 8y ago
Go browse https://www.archive.org https://www.archive.org -- you won't regret it.
There's no telling what you'll find, in all languages, from all eras, from magazines to music to movies to games to books, maps, ephemera, junk mail.
Ted Nelson kept all his junk mail, for some reason, and now it's fascinating. Old computer product ads from the 60s and 70s, well before personal computing was really a thing. Everything changed, from the nature of the products to the nature of the ads.
https://archive.org/details/tednelsonjunkmail https://archive.org/details/tednelsonjunkmail
see also: old issues of Next Generation magazine (half serious tech, half gamer bro, I love both sides of it)
Byte Magazine; Japanese MSX magazines. Old cookbooks. Wargaming magazines. Old books in general on everything from how to write shorthand to ... whatever you want.
Archive.org and Wikipedia are the two best places to get lost on the internet.
- coroxout 8y ago"Ted Nelson kept all his junk mail, for some reason" I'm glad he did, I love the design on a lot of these! Reminds me of the story of the John Johnson collection of "printed ephemera" at a library in my town: https://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/johnson/about https://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/johnson/about The way I've heard it, he was in Egypt studying the writing on papyrus fragments which had been excavated from a seam of ancient landfill, and he reflected on how much he'd learned about the real day-to-day lives of ancient Egypt from what had been thrown away as scrap paper millennia before, and wondered what people were doing in our age to preserve the modern-day equivalents. (Or modern-day-ish - this was the 1920s) I love archive.org and have "lost" many an evening flicking through some early-80s computer magazines or consumer electronics catalogues.