A while back, I got into reading vintage news articles about tech. (Everyone needs a hobby.) History is cool/fun/weird. Now I'm doing the obvious thing and starting a newsletter: https://t.co/JUvEPI6Xmn
Illustrations by Betty Debnam, creator of The Mini Page, a syndicated newspaper supplement for kids. These are from a 1982 issue titled “Hello Computer.”
A while back, I got into reading vintage news articles about tech. (Everyone needs a hobby.) History is cool/fun/weird. Now I'm doing the obvious thing and starting a newsletter:
A while back, I got into reading vintage news articles about tech. (Everyone needs a hobby.) History is cool/fun/weird. Now I'm doing the obvious thing and starting a newsletter: https://t.co/JUvEPI6Xmn
@randytoad@hamb0ne1 It appears that he was a "chief teller" (I'm pretty sure this is the incident mentioned in the first article): https://t.co/yY0CGM2sKT
The idea is to collect interesting tech news from the previous week, but from history. So, like, July 18-24, but in 1961, 1962, etc. (Except I messed up this first one and pulled some articles from June, so.)
Radiolab listener Teo Soares created a site to collect even more cataclysm sentences, inspired by our episode, “The Cataclysm Sentence.” Check out the answers and submit your own #cataclysmsentence: https://t.co/4JZRUYg4TJ
I haven’t tweeted in a couple of years, but this one is worth it. Shout out to the people who actually made the thing: @hapticdata@alexanderchen @cleezybear @yotammann and @luisa_ph. Congrats!