🎇🏛 Today we are celebrating INTERNATIONAL MUSEUM DAY 2024! In collaboration with #ICOM Slovenia, we'll be hosting a vibrant program, including free entry to our permanent and guest exhibitions and three workshops for children and adults.
If you remember a time when using floppy disks didn’t seem weird, you’re probably at least 30 years old. Floppy disks or diskettes emerged around 1970 and, for a good three decades or so, they were the main way many people stored and backed up their computer data.
However, it’s now been over a decade since the last floppy disc was made, and it wouldn’t even have enough capacity to store a modern smart phone picture. So why do some people still love using them? BBC Future speaks to some of the floppy disk faithful to find out.
In 1995, the Colorado town where I was attending high school hosted the first annual Digital Storytelling Festival.
One of the sponsors was "The Net" magazine, long since defunct. As part of the festival, a couple employees of The Net came to our high school and taught us HTML.
A recent bout of nostalgia led me to searching for issues of The Net magazine on eBay, but then I remembered to check the @internetarchive
I sometimes think of the toys I had growing up and have feelings of #nostalgia And I, sort of, think I could look on ebay and get something I remember.
But then I think, I'd have a quick go, show the kids, and then what? It'd sit on a shelf, in a box, or whatever. What would be the point.
Maybe an 80s toy museum would be fun, have a quick look, a bit of a play and then let the next person enjoy it.
Throwback to childhood days spent with Zak McKracken!
I vividly remember those moments stepping out of Zak's house, him turning back, and casually remarking, "Looks good." It's funny how some game moments stick with you.
Now, on days like today, when the evening wraps up a genuinely good day, I find myself metaphorically looking back at the day's events. And just like Zak, I think to myself: "Looks good." It's a simple phrase, yet it perfectly captures the satisfaction and contentment of a day well spent.
In 1985, Madonna released "Material Girl" and "Into the Groove," played the title role in "Desperately Seeking Susan," toured North America (supported by the Beastie Boys) and performed at Live Aid. But writer and fan Justin Myers holds the year dear for another reason: his abiding love for "Dress You Up." For his Guyliner Substack, he reappraises the song, which was the final release from the "Like a Virgin" album, calling it, "a celebration of sex, itself dressed up as something else to both appease the censors calling her the devil incarnate and provoke them at the same time."
Under foreverism, nothing can ever die. Franchises need to go on forever to maximize corporate profits and political ideas drawing on the past define our discourse.
On #TechWontSaveUs, I spoke to Grafton Tanner to discuss the consequences of companies and politicians leveraging nostalgia for their own gain.
They're like the 100-in-1 #pirated Game Boy cartridges of #music :sagume_think:
This is the shit I am #nostalgic about :akyuu_headphones:
I'm kinda surprised they still exist here in the #Philippines, but if there are pirated #DVDs and #Bluray being sold in the black market, why not MP3 CDs as well? :satrithink:
A "medical freedom" momfluencer is using a clip from "The Brady Bunch" to rally her followers against the MMR vaccine. In the episode "Is There a Doctor in the House," all the Brady kids get measles and enjoy a few days off school. Cases of measles are on the rise in the U.K. and U.S. and Natasha Crowcroft, who advises the WHO on MMR, says the disease's seriousness shouldn't be dismissed since even healthy kids in high-income countries with good healthcare have a one in 1,000 chance of dying from it. “If I said one in 1,000 people who eat this yogurt would get a severe allergy, that product would be off the market,” she told Salon.
About 16 years ago, Apple sold the MacBook Air design to the world. At a time when compact and portable notebooks were hugely popular, Apple offered an ultra-thin, lightweight alternative but with fewer ports, no disc drive and no removable battery. And yet, laptops today are still influenced by this moment in time.
Designer and researcher Ruby Justice Thelot talks about preserving forgotten and niche online spaces found in the comments section of YouTube videos, where people build communities and share personal reflections about their lives.
The Sinclair ZX Spectrum was launched 1983 as Timex Sinclair 2068 computer on the US market. Even when Commodore won the #8bitWars in the end, the ZX Spectrum sold 5 million units until 1992 for a initial price of £175 (48KB in the UK). With a Z80A 8-bit CPU running oh 3.5 MHz it was capable to do fancy computer graphics on a regular telly, at home for everybody.
Most likely because Quantel named their first system as simple as they did, Print'n'Plotter sold their graphic software under the same product name "Paintbox", but for the ZX Home Computers. In a resolution of 256×192 pixels and limited to 15 colours #IT was great for the budget. Demo graphics been fancy, even if not as WOOOW as the real Paintbox. https://gfkdsgn.wordpress.com/2020/01/01/quantel-paintbox/
Quantel wasn't in the Home computer business so not even MTV could afford more than a few. Real Paintbox systems are rare today, while the ZX Spectrum isn't so much.
The series of our 2023 tech anniversaries comes to a natural end and content plans for the next year have to be talked about internally. AFK
"Big Tech has long traded on nostalgia," writes Sarah Manavis for New Statesman. She questions why so many of us think that our old digital photographs, videos and messages are safe after Google's recent account purge.
'Q&A: Director Clay Kaytis on Nostalgia, the Holidays, and Finding Himself in His Work'
The filmmaker behind THE CHRISTMAS CHRONICLES, A CHRISTMAS STORY CHRISTMAS, and Peanuts holiday specials knows a thing or two about the narrative risks involved in mining our childhoods.
100-letnia stodoła moich Dziadków to taki mój czakram. Pamiętam jak wrzucało się tu siano, jak ja z tego siana skakałem parę metrów w dół na wysypane na klepisko po żniwach zboże. Ech dzieciństwo. Dobrze, że wtedy nie było Internetu i gier - teraz mam fajne wspomnienia.
Czuje się tu wysiłek paru pokoleń żeby jakoś ten kolejny rok przeżyć. Fachowcy poprawili dachówki więc może jeszce trochę postoi. Bez stodoły nic już nie było by takie jak dawniej :) #wspomnienia#nostalgia