Archive for tag: history

You press the button…

posted on Jan 20, 2012 - No Comments

Alway read about this but this is the first time I actually see it.
(via the guardian)

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The World’s First Mobile Phone

posted on Dec 4, 2011 - No Comments

A couple of years ago, British Pathé uncovered some striking footage from 1922 showing two women experimenting with the first mobile phone.
(via Open Culture)

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Learning Windows ‘95 with Greta

posted on Nov 9, 2011 - No Comments


Windows ‘95 with Greta is the kind of stuff that makes me love the Internet. How else were we supposed to find this crazy stuff? Seriously, I’m grateful…
[via Dangerous Minds]

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Historical Photography Brought to Life

posted on Oct 10, 2011 - No Comments

Gorgeous 3D rotoscoping into archival photos from the documentary Motalko about the first Hungarian petrol station…
(via likecool)

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Snow Piece

posted on Aug 31, 2011 - No Comments

Yoko Ono, Snow Piece, 1963
[via André Brocatus was here...]

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The Internet in 1995 on MTV News

posted on Aug 5, 2011 - No Comments

(Via Driveby Blogging)

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Victorian photo booth

posted on Jul 10, 2011 - No Comments

(via Dangerous Minds)

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Unexpected photos of historical figures

posted on Jun 15, 2011 - No Comments

Mark Twain and Nikola Tesla. More images here.
 

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How books were made

posted on Apr 26, 2011 - No Comments

This is how books used to be made…
(via Boing Boing)

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The Responsive Eye

posted on Mar 29, 2011 - No Comments


Before Brian De Palma became a movie director he made documentaries. This one is called “The Responsive Eye” and chronicles the Museum Of Modern Art’s 1965 exhibition of Op-Art…
[via]

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Television Delivers People

posted on Feb 25, 2011 - No Comments

Good stuff never gets old…

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