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?
Lunchtime
charlestraub.com
History
Snapshots of Kids Bike Jumping in the 1970s
flashbak.com
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