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Old Mac Game Software
Great audio/visual directory of OS6/7 games.
games  software  mac  history  retro  nostalgia 
june 2009 by Remy
Full text of "Valentine's city of New York; a guide book, with six maps and one hundred and sixty full page pictures"
"As a lover of New York it has seemed to me that something in the line of these half-forgotten Guide Books was due this old city of ours." OCR scan of a fantastic travel guide from the 1920s.
nyc  history  travel  toread  via:gothamist 
november 2008 by Remy
Once Naked For Nirvana, Now A Teen Spirit : NPR Music
Imagine if millions of people had seen you naked before you were old enough to say "embarrassing." That's the story of Spencer Elden, whom you may know as the little baby floating towards a dollar bill on the cover of Nirvana's 1991 album, Nevermind.
music  history  age  nirvana 
july 2008 by Remy
World-Wide Labyrinth Locator - Locate a Labyrinth
The World-Wide Labyrinth Locator has been designed to be an easy-to-use database of labyrinths around the world. Information about labyrinths you can visit, including their locations, pictures, and contact details, are accessible here.
labyrinths  history  travel  games  reference 
june 2007 by Remy
Atari Company-Confidential document website.
Obtained from Atari Ireland (Tipperary) when it closed down. There is roughly 4 filing cabinets worth of documents, they do not belong to me, i merely scanned ths lot and put it up here for people to view.
gamedesign  games  history  reference  via:pezvi 
april 2007 by Remy
Misremember The Alamo! | The Onion - America's Finest News Source
"So I say: Misremember the Alamo! I mean, remember it, but maybe not so clearly. There are certain details better left unsaid and misrecalled."
history  satire  patriotism  usa 
august 2006 by Remy
A Rape in Cyberspace
Article about a particularly disturbing incident on LambdaMOO back in the day.
history  internet  nsfw  toread  identity  psychology  sex 
july 2006 by Remy
Internet '96
What the web looked like 10 years ago.
web  design  history  internet  via:kottke 
july 2006 by Remy
Cute story on Woz getting pranked phone called by babies
"Suddenly, it all made sense: the hundreds of calls, the dead air, the gurgling sounds. Babies."
apple  funny  history  numbers  woz 
april 2006 by Remy

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