One more amateur history of technology site and then we move on to other things. DigiCamHistory.com provides an enormous—if poorly organized and badly designed—wealth of annotated photos and links relating to the development of digital camera technology. Like the evolt.org Browser Archive, DigiCamHistory solicits user contributions, and although it is hard to say how much [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Collecting'
DigiCams
October 9th, 2006 · No Comments
Tags: Artifacts · Collecting · History of Technology · Mozilla
Collecting Computer History
October 6th, 2006 · No Comments
Together with colleagues at CHNM, I have been working for several years now on ways to elaborate and extend the practice of online collecting, especially in the areas of history of science, technology, and industry. Some of the results of that work can be found at CHNM’s Echo: Exploring and Collecting History Online website, where [...]
Tags: Collecting · History of Technology · Marketing · Mozilla · Video
Apple History Roundup
September 25th, 2006 · No Comments
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 more [...]
Tags: Apple · Biography · Collecting · History of Technology · Today in ...
What is a Museum?
September 18th, 2006 · 5 Comments
This one comes from Found History reader Tim, who wanted to hear my thoughts on NPR’s recent story about the Museum of Online Museums (MOOM), a directory of online collections. Aside from being a treasure trove of found history, MOOM raises the question—at least for NPR’s editors—of what constitutes a museum. Should we or should [...]
Tags: Audio · Collecting · Digital Humanities · Favorites · Museums
Finding History in the September 11 Digital Archive
April 16th, 2006 · No Comments
Because it follows from some talks I’ve given in the past, this may be cheating on my resolution to start writing more. But I think it really belongs here on Found History, so I’m going to post it anyway. In some ways my work on the September 11 Digital Archive inspired this blog, and I [...]
Tags: Collecting · Digital Humanities · Favorites · Public History

