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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More from the grocery check-out. I suppose I understand the pairing of John-John and Diana. But John Lennon and John Ritter?

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Like many enthusiast communities, the legion of Mac users seems particularly interested in its history and in the history of its cause: the Apple computer. This takes the form of both casual interest by ordinary users (e.g. “Early Apple sound designer Jim Reekes corrects Sosumi myth” and “Steve and Steve in 1976″) and also [...]

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If you get a chance, check out kevo.com, a new social networking site where users collaboratively profile their favorite celebrities, who are then ranked according to “fame” based on the number and reputation of members contributing to their pages (at least that’s what I gather from the site’s somewhat opaque FAQ pages). Paris Hilton, Natalie [...]

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Found on the floor of the United States Senate: James Inhofe (R-OK) explores his family history.

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