Not all borrowing is the same. From public domain illustrations on book covers to AI’s data hoarding, who really owns culture – and who gets away with taking it?
Snapshots of Kids Bike Jumping in the 1970s
flashbak.com
History
GeoCities animated GIF search engine
gifcities.orgElizabeth Goodspeed on what happens when we treat the past like a stock library
itsnicethat.comMusic industry’s 1990s hard drives, like all HDDs, are dying
arstechnica.comThe music industry traded tape for hard drives and got a hard-earned lesson.
Analog Audio Tape Cassette Nostalgia
tapedeck.org
The bizarre secrets I found investigating corrupt Winamp skins
jordaneldredge.comIn January of 2021 I was exploring the corpus of Skins I collected for the Winamp Skin Museum and found some that seemed corrupted, so I decided to explore them.
Pluralistic: The antitrust case against Apple
pluralistic.netHow to Succeed with Brunettes
youtube.com
Recreating a Banned Toy from the 1980s
youtube.com
The 88×31 GIF Collection
cyber.dabamos.deA collection of 4210 classic 88×31 buttons from the 1990s, 2000s, and today in GIF format.
browser wipEout
phoboslab.orgPlay wipEout in the browser, and read the article written about rewriting it.
Joan Ross
joanross.com.au
World’s Strangest Research Vessel Heads for Scrapyard After 60 Years
maritime-executive.com
EXP TV
exptv.org
Endless stream of obscure media and video ephemera
More than a material girl: Scholars talk about what Barbie represents
19thnews.org“In some sense Barbie invites more of a critique because she is a role model of mass consumption, but she isn’t given that critique,” Wright said. “She is like other female archetypes, really criticized for what she represents and how she’s presenting herself in the world. It really comes back to women’s embodiment and what that symbolizes.”