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Un-TV - Moving Image Source
Leah Churner of the Museum of the Moving Image provides a history of public access TV in Manhattan.
TV  history  publicaccess 
may 2011 by McChris
Half-formed thought on Wikileaks & Global Action
Clay Shirky endeavors to situate WikiLeaks within the broader history of informational direct action.
wikileaks  history 
january 2011 by McChris
TorrentFreak: Crazy Video Game DRM Prism, 1980’s Style
A 1980s video-game DRM system required users to view a scrambled code with a prism, and then enter the code in order to continue playing the game.
history  DRM  gaming  stupid 
june 2008 by McChris
The Civil Rights Digital Library
This online collection at the University of Georgia provides resources for learning about the Civil RIghts movement of the 1960s and 70s.
archive  history  library  racism 
june 2008 by McChris
allanti.com: Where was my bike made?
Here's an interesting rundown of where bicycle frames are manufactured. I knew Giant produced frames for Schwinn and others in Taiwan, but I didn't realize they're now the largest (legit) bicycle maker. I still don't know if my "Made in the USA" Cannondal
cycling  business  history  offshoring 
march 2008 by McChris
Rutherford Photographic (1965-1975)
Images of the installation of a microfilm reader in 1975. My dad worked on these through most of his working life.
archive  history  technology  photography 
march 2008 by McChris
Obsolete Skills: Skills/Skills
This wiki allows users to list skills they believe have been make obsolete by changing technology.
technology  wiki  history 
february 2008 by McChris
AIGA Journal of Design: This Is Not Only a Test
Phil Patton examines TV test patterns and other media tests in this essay.
TV  history  design 
february 2008 by McChris
Economist.com: Telex | A faint ping
The Economist discusses the odd enduring power of the teletype.
oldmedia  telecom  history 
february 2008 by McChris
The History of Visual Communication
I don't know enough about this topic to evaluate the quality of this history, presumably written for undergrads, but it's definitely a good source of images for teaching.
design  history  reference  print 
february 2008 by McChris
Suck.com Archive
I've been looking for old Suck columns, but suck.com is content-free. Fortunately Aaron Schwartz has a mirror of the old articles.
archive  history  blog  awesome 
january 2008 by McChris
Pitchfork Feature: NO!: The Origins of No Wave
This article provides an interesting production history of the No New York compilation of post-punk bands.
punk  music  history 
january 2008 by McChris
Internet Archive: Computer Chronicles
There might be some chuckles in this collection of a TV show about computers that began airing in the 1980s.
archive  history  geek  TV  technology 
january 2008 by McChris
Digital Tampering in the Media, Politics and Law
This has been all over the blogosphere, but I'm posting it here for future reference. The Kent State example is particularly interesting.
photoshop  journalism  history  thereal  epistemology 
november 2007 by McChris
Trebor Scholz: A History of the Social Web
"This is a cross-cultural history of social life on the Internet. It captures technical, cultural, and political events that influenced the evolution of computer-assisted person-to-person communication via the net."
academic  history  Web2.0  production  to:read 
september 2007 by McChris
Trebor Scholz: Playing Class Struggle
A 1970s board game tries to make Marxist political theory fun for the whole family.
awesome  gaming  politicaleconomy  history 
september 2007 by McChris
Daily Herald: The CD is still second to vinyl in the hearts of music buffs
There's nothing really new here about how hipsters thing vinyl sounds better than CDs, but it provides a nice historical context for the idea that the CD is a dying format.
vinyl  music  end-of-life  history  technology 
august 2007 by McChris
1960s George Wallace Segregation Comic Book
This comic book was distributed during George Wallace's 1962 governor's race, scaring folks about the implications of desegregation. "In Birmingham they love the governor..."
comics  history  politics  race  popularmemory 
august 2007 by McChris
oldlego.com
This site is a treasure trove of old Lego images.
history  toys  Lego 
june 2007 by McChris
OUPblog: The LP is Unvieled
I missed this anniversary, but it's worth linking to this commemorative story.
music  history  technology  vinyl 
june 2007 by McChris
SiliconUser: How Adobe's Photoshop Was Born
history  Adobe  photoshop 
june 2007 by McChris
Rough Type: Long player
Nick Carr discusses _Exile on Main Street_ at length and alludes to Gang of Four in his erudite rebuttal to David Weinberger's contention that the "track" is the natural unit of music.
history  technology  vinyl 
may 2007 by McChris
Black and White: 1958
"African American high school girl being educated via television during the period that the Little Rock (Arkansas) schools were closed to avoid integration."
image  history  education  TV  race 
may 2007 by McChris
The Buried 1957 Plymouth
A time-capsule containing a 1957 Plymouth Belvedere will be unearthed in Tulsa on June 15th.
transportation  futurism  history  tulsa 
may 2007 by McChris
Statesman.com: UT creates video game archive
Warren Spector catalyzed this project at the Center for American History.
archive  history  gaming  utexas 
april 2007 by McChris
GNE Museum
Screenshots of The Game Neverending, the predecessor to Flickr reveal the initial design plans of the social software service. I never played GNE, but when I started using Flickr in 2003, it was weird.
information_design  Flickr  history  Web2.0 
march 2007 by McChris
FringeWare Chronology: 1992 - 1996
JonL points to this chronology of the underground bookstore of yesteryear.
books  zine  history  weird  austin 
march 2007 by McChris
From Power to Authority in Communications Research
I haven't had a chance to read all of this, but this looks like a really interesting critical history of the communication discipline.
academic  history  power  media 
february 2007 by McChris
HistoryWired: Nose Cone, Pigeon-Guided Missile
BF Skinner invented crowdsourcing in 1944.
crowdsourcing  hack  history  weird  weirdscience 
february 2007 by McChris
Bound for Glory: America in Color, 1939-1943
Library of Congress online exhibit of what I presume to be WPA work.
gallery  archive  photography  history 
january 2007 by McChris
"At the Time of the Louisville Flood, Louisville, KY," 1936-37.
This amazing photo was taken by Margaret Bourke-White during the Great Depression
image  history  disaster  race  whoa 
january 2007 by McChris
Eyeteeth: Capitalism: A Pyramid Scheme
1911 visualization of economics created for the Wobblies.
information_design  labor  history  visualization 
january 2007 by McChris
Microsoft's evolution, in keywords
The history of Microsoft is visualized here as a series of tag clouds.
Microsoft  history  business  visualization  information_design 
january 2007 by McChris
A Treasury of World's Fair Art & Architecture
Archive of world's fair ephemera at The University of Maryland.
history  archive  oldmedia  academic  utopianism 
december 2006 by McChris
Radical Software
I keep meaning to post this video art magazine from the 1970s. Now I have.
archive  art  history  video  magazine 
december 2006 by McChris
The Texas Observer: The Spies of Texas
"Newfound files detail how UT-Austin police tracked the lives of Sixties dissidents." Lloyd Doggett, Janis Joplin, and Kinky Friedman were all under surveillance.
austin  utexas  surveillance  lawenforcement  history  politics 
november 2006 by McChris
Cary Grant Sings FCC Regulations
A 1939 recording of Cary Grant's vocal performance of the FCC's station identification rules.
FCC  radio  history  weird 
november 2006 by McChris
Kircher Society: Rotary Reading Desk
Although I'm not convinced of the utility of this desk, the image makes for a nice metaphor for grad school.
history  gradschool  image 
november 2006 by McChris
The Scourge of Arial
Mark Simonson reveals the interesting behind-the-scenes story behind Arial. We can't really blame Microsoft for this one, but perhaps we can cast a judgmental eye toward Adobe.
typography  history  design  font 
november 2006 by McChris
Handbook of Texas Online: Camels
Via Nigel. Apparently, the camels imported to Texas in the 19th century "smelled horrible, frightened horses, and were detested by handlers accustomed to the more docile mules."
Texas  history  weird 
november 2006 by McChris
PC World's Techlog A Brief History of Computers, As Seen in Old TV Ads
PC World rounds up old TV ads on YouTube. Apparently the dude-you're-getting-a-Dell are nowhere to be found.
advertising  business  history  TV  TVontheWeb  Dell  Apple 
october 2006 by McChris
Internet Archive: Showdown in Seattle
I was looking for videos from the N30 protests to show in class today, Students are snickering...
video  history  labor  citizensmedia  indymedia  archive  environmentalism  economics 
october 2006 by McChris
Counterculture to cyberculture is crunchygranola path to Wikipedia, Google
A new book discusses how the utopianism of the sixties counterculture influenced the computer industry.
utopianism  subculture  history 
september 2006 by McChris
The History Of Hacking - Google Video
Via Cory Arcangel, this TLC documentary from 2001 doesn't present a lot of information new to me, but it's interesting to watch Kevin Mitnick and Captain Crunch talk about their lives.
hacking  documentary  history  video  cable 
september 2006 by McChris
Abandoned Stations
This awesome series of web pages has photos of abandoned New York City train stations and their historical context.
transportation  history  architecture  NYC 
september 2006 by McChris
Lights Out: The halcyon days of film programming at the University of Texas
An older story that discusses how the VCR killed public screenings at UT-Austin.
film  video  utexas  austin  oldmedia  history 
august 2006 by McChris
Independent Online Edition: Sole survivors: the legacy of shoegazing
This article contends music fans have forgotten shoegaze. I didn't forget.
shoegaze  music  indierock  history 
august 2006 by McChris
Hurricanes Katrina & Rita Web Archive
Archive.org has cached millions of websites related to the events surrounding Hurricane Katrina. They're the folks responsible for the Wayback Machine, so they would probably be caching this information anyway, but it's nice they have the Katrina gateway.
archive  disaster  history  blog  news 
august 2006 by McChris
U B U W E B - Joseph Beuys: "Sonne statt Reagan"
Oh my, here's a 1982 music video starring Joseph Beuys. He's singing a song protesting US President Ronald Reagan's defense policy, and it's as unkrautrocklich as imaginable.
video  anti-war  art  history  weird 
august 2006 by McChris
The Atlantic Ideas Tour: Technology and Innovation
To commemorate its 150th anniversary, the magazine has uploaded several articles about emerging technologies by famous writers, including Vannevar Bush's "As We May Think" and piece by Mark Twain about the telephone.
oldmedia  history  magazine  telecom 
august 2006 by McChris
Top 10 Overlooked Moments in MTV History
My friend Marjorie contributed to this list. I'd add Thurston Moore's interview with Beck on 120 Minutes. Beck responded to one of Moore's questions by taking off his boot and throwing it at a backdrop, producing an audible thud.
TV  cable  history  music  humor 
august 2006 by McChris
Behind The Typeface: Cooper Black
This Flash animation takes a humorous look at the underused Cooper Black typeface.
typography  Flash  history  humor 
august 2006 by McChris
Helvetica, The Film
This is an upcoming documentary about what is probably the world's most overused typeface. Please ignore the face you're currently reading...
typography  film  documentary  design  history 
august 2006 by McChris
Can History be Open Source? Wikipedia and the Future of the Past
A historian looks at wikipedia and its mode of production.
academic  wikipedia  authorship  history  production 
august 2006 by McChris
The Atlantic Monthly: The Hive
Another venerable magazine runs a feature on Wikipedia. This one is good at describing the multiple forces that came together to form the project, rather than a single threaded narrative about Jimbo Wales.
wikipedia  production  opensource  history 
august 2006 by McChris
Ad*Access
David Nunez points to this database of mid-century print ads. I'm particularly interested in the ads for radio and television receivers.
advertising  archive  radio  TV  history 
august 2006 by McChris
Slashdot | 50th Anniversary of the First Hard Drive
Oh rad, Slashdot posted a story I suggested!
history  slashdot  storage 
july 2006 by McChris
Beryl Ford Collection
Wow, the Tulsa library has scanned and uploaded hundreds of old photographs of Tulsa. Unfortunately, the interface for browsing the images is terrible. There are no thumbnails and you have to click twice to get to the image.
tulsa  photography  archive  history  oklahoma 
july 2006 by McChris
Annals of Information: Know it All
The New Yorker has a long feature about Wikipedia and its user communities. It even mentions the Boston Molasses Disaster.
wikipedia  history  opensource  production 
july 2006 by McChris
zefrank on ugly MySpace profiles
This vlog post situates ugly MySpace profiles within the history of print design and adds a little Web 2.0 sassy sauce.
myspace  design  typography  production  authorship  history  video 
july 2006 by McChris
Stabbed in the Back! (Harpers.org)
I'm not sure I buy this 100%, but this piece describes the "Stabbed in the Back" rhetorical strategy used by conservatives. They argue that internal disagreement is at fault for disastrous wars like Vietnam and Iraq.
history  politics  war  anti-war  meme 
july 2006 by McChris
Pitchfork: Ian Curtis Movie Begins Shooting
Pitchfork has more details about *Control*, a movie about Joy Division.
film  punk  biopic  music  history 
july 2006 by McChris
Mr. Stevens' wild ride, through a "series of tubes"
Nice chronology of the online response to Alaska Senator Ted Steven's speech comparing the Internet to a "series of tubes." If they had only used that Ajax framework used in the JFK timeline, my life would be complete.
history  meme  publicpolicy  networkneutrality  blog 
july 2006 by McChris
Is Media Performance Democracy’s Critical Issue?
This is a really interesting transcript of a talk about changes in the news media. It starts by discussing the checkered past of the Philadelphia Inquirer.
newspaper  journalism  citizensmedia  history 
july 2006 by McChris
DHTML Timeline of JFK Asassination
Via Waxy...
JFK  history  ajax  design  Web2.0  visualization 
june 2006 by McChris
Harvard Film Archive: The Vietnam War on Film
Wow, I wish I could attend this series; last summer I worked on a little Vietnam and popular memory project. At least this gives more movies to add to my list.
war  film  history  popularmemory 
june 2006 by McChris
US Government hangs up on Spanish-American War
The ancient tax on long-distance calls has been repealed. It was first levvied to finance the Spanish-American War.
imperialism  history  oldmedia  telecom 
may 2006 by McChris
Tron's World | TwitchGuru
Long article detaling the production history of Tron.
history  film  geek  animation 
may 2006 by McChris
Internet Archive: Details: Media Burn
I was looking around for this for a presentation tomorrow, and, sweet sassy molassy, Ant Farm's groundbreaking video Media Burn is available on the Internet Archive.
history  media  TV  video  art  archive 
may 2006 by McChris
Eric Boehlert: Wired Magazine Owes Al Gore An Apology
As Atrios points out, the online Wired News is a separate organization with different owners from Wired Magazine.
history  politics  newmedia  earth 
april 2006 by McChris
Economic History Resources - How Much is That?
tool for comparing the purchasing power of the US dollar between various dates in history.
useful  history  economics 
april 2006 by McChris
Rip It Up & Start Again: PostPunk 1978-1984
Online, in-process footnotes for the Simon Reynolds book. It should have an RSS feed.
music  blog  DIY  history  punk 
april 2006 by McChris
Sun Microsystems' Big Changes
Dan Gillmor provides some perspective on the departure of Scott McNealy from Sun Microsystems.
business  history 
april 2006 by McChris
The History of Electronic Mail
an extremely geeky history of email.
email  history  spam  geek 
april 2006 by McChris
YouTube - Disney Vault
Gotta hurry... I'm sure this link will rot as soon as NBC knows of it's existence. SNL's "TV Funhouse" segment exposes the lesser known parts of Disney history. Look out for "Jungle Book 3.0: Jungle Blog."
animation  TVontheWeb  film  history  satire 
april 2006 by McChris
19th century ads for electric devices
Be sure to check out Dr. Scott's Electric Girdle for Men.
history  archive  advertising 
april 2006 by McChris
Onomatopeyas
Argentine site with screenshots onomatopeia from the 1960s "Batman" series.
TV  history  comics  archive  camp 
march 2006 by McChris
Five years of Mac OS X
NIce little paean celebrating the fifth aniversary of OS X.
OSX  geek  history 
march 2006 by McChris
Reel.com: DVD Royalty
Interview with the president of the Criterion Collection, Peter Becker. The criterion re-releases classic films on DVD and formerly LaserDisc. I wish they'd hurry up and release Alex Cox's _Walker_ on DVD.
video  film  history  archive  business 
march 2006 by McChris
Intellectual Property Run Amok
List of copyright malefactors throughout the ages.
copyright  history  freeculture  intellectualproperty 
march 2006 by McChris
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