"The Sound Recordings catalog comprises over 17,400 digital audio files, beginning with Lomax’s first recordings onto (newly invented) tape in 1946 and tracing his career into the 1990s.... Alan Lomax was a musicologist, writer and producer who spent his life capturing in sound, photographs, video and research what today is termed our 'intangible heritage.'"

"We have become information narcissists..." from NYT.

from Six Revisions.

"Archaeoacoustics is the discipline that explores acoustic phenomena encoded in ancient artifacts. For instance, theoretically a pot or vase could be 'read' like a gramophone record or phonograph cylinder for messages from the past." from Wikipedia.

"Part of the graduate thesis of designer Dominic Flask, this site was created as a teaching tool for young designers just beginning to explore graphic design and as a reference tool for all designers. It is supposed to provide brief overviews of a wide range of topics rather than an in-depth study of only a few. It is a constantly evolving, changing, expanding reference library."

"'The frantic haste with which we bolt everything we take, seconded by the eager wish of the journalist not to be a day behind his competitor, abolishes deliberation from judgment and sound digestion from our mental constitutions.'" from The Economist.

A look at our agricultural past may explain why honey bees around the world began disappearing three years ago. from Seed.

The Antikythera mechanism is an ancient mechanical calculator (also described as the first known mechanical computer) designed to calculate astronomical positions. from wikipedia.

Dust-to-Digital's mission is to produce high-quality, cultural artifacts, which combine rare, essential recordings with historic images and detailed texts describing the artists and their works.

First Sounds is an informal collaborative of audio historians, recording engineers, sound archivists, scientists, other individuals, and organizations who aim to make mankind's earliest sound recordings available to all people for all time.

key milestones and events related to the growth and evolution of the Internet between 1969 to 2009.

Six-episode series directed by Ken Burns and written and co-produced by Dayton Duncan. from PBS.

short visual history.

part three, from i love typography.

part two, from i love typography.

part one, from i love typography.