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Where Will Television Go from Here?

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Television isn’t obsolete yet, but I wonder if the future will still have so many television sets. It is so odd that people still buy huge screens for television while looking at tiny phone screens most of the day. I tried finding a TV in the smaller size, the size that would fit the space … Read more

What is the Typosphere?

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A term for bloggers who collect, use, and otherwise obsess over typewriters and other “obsolete” technologies, including, but not limited to, handwriting, pens and ink, paper mail and mail art, knitting and fibre arts, film photography, chip-less combustion engines, and related ephemera. Though typically reclusive, members of the typosphere can sometimes be found lurking around … Read more

Cyber Communication History Book

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Starting from the email and its stylistic facets, chat, in which we focus also on the art of composing spartan shapes and colors in the standard IRC, the author probes the spontaneous, irreverent and relentless personal communication that found between restrictions techniques and tricks of its own random mode. In the following chapters we analyze … Read more

ODP .sig Code

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E+F+D+++++XDN+++G++Q+++++L?A+++HW-O++BC-T++IS-Krg Saved for posterity. Most of the links don’t go very far. ODP .sig Code This little code originated in a forum thread back in late 2002. We have both an encoder (provided by jtaylorj) and a decoder (provided by ciaran)! The following explanatory blurb is ripped off from the geek code. Make the appropriate … Read more

Analog Renaissance: Have you Seen your Last Typewriter?

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The Typosphere – A term for bloggers who collect, use, and otherwise obsess over typewriters and other “obsolete” technologies, including, but not limited to, handwriting, pens and ink, paper mail and mail art, knitting and fibre arts, film photography, chip-less combustion engines, and related ephemera. Flickr: Anablogger Archives – “A repository of film photographs, doodles … Read more