Found History

(my) History of Technology by Verie Sandborg. A retiree’s recollections of a lifetime with personal technology.
Roots Television. User-generated genealogy videos. Interesting, but too many ads.
Technica. An archive of lego history, including early advertisements, a numbered set listing, and an extensive timeline.

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Ye Olde Hipster. Merlin Mann claims Thomas Jefferson’s ivory pocket notebook as the “great-great-grandfather” of his own creation for Getting Things Done, the Hipster PDA.
A History of Snowboarding in 2 Minutes Flat. (Via YouTube.)

Happy New Year!

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This one comes from Jeremy. Found history, indeed.
“19th Century bomb found in whale” via BBC News

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CHNM has just launched a new project called The Object of History. A partnership with the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of American History, the project aims at lower cost model for “virtual” museum field trips. It also tries to open up the work of museum curators to student scrutiny. For most students, history […]

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Watchismo is a collector and online dealer of vintage watches, especially digital watches, from the mid-20th century. He describes himself as “devoted to the highly unusual, obscurely rare and advanced modern designs of the 1950’s, 60’s and 70’s” and focused on the “rarest styles of the space-age.” There are some interesting galleries on […]

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