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There are so many incredible online archives of everything, so much to discover and so many rabbit holes to fall into. Check out The American Diary Project, The Malware Museum, The Buttolph Collection of Menus, Hoaxes of History, The Ted Nelson Archive, The Whole Earth Index, Jocari, The Geocities Gallery just to name a few very specific ones.
May 21, 2024
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Full of information, archives within archives. A lot of cool old government film clips and PSAs and science and educational films. Tons of books and audiobooks and really obscure/fringe writing from the whole spectrum of political thought as well as classics. Also going on the website wayback machine and looking for websites I made on Geocities when I was 12 is fun. Makes you feel like an archaeologist.
Sep 20, 2022
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Open access and the preservation of digital artifacts are causes I can get behind, so I’m going to give The Internet Archive some appreciation here. I spend quite a bit of time browsing their offerings, some of which have made their way into my art projects. You’ll have to take your own trip with it, but some of my personal highlights include: a complete archive of Mondo 2000 magazines, a collection of K-Mart background music from a former employee (recently denoised by another IA user), and the Noise-Arch collection which pulls together many gigs of underground tape cassettes from the 1980s-90s. Recently I started using a ChatGPT Chrome extension and put it to work reading entire PDFs, searching for keywords, summarizing etc. Pretty awesome library school / digital hoarder / subvertainment stuff, if you like that sort of thing.
Nov 22, 2023
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i can’t pick a single fav website but. i wrote my thesis on queer history and loved looking thru these in the process
ACT UP Historical Archive - it’s an archive of ACT UP NY’s old website with a bunch of cool resources and things to read about the history of the movement to end the AIDS crisis. highly recommend exploring it
JD Doyle Archives - this guy created an amazing archive of both queer music history and Texas queer history and has digitized it online. imo it also really speaks to the role of “community archivists” in preserving the history of marginalized communities
Digital Transgender Archive - self explanatory maybe but it’s a really cool archive of trans history across the world and there’s a map feature!!
May 31, 2024
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Sometimes remembering hurts. Sometimes remembering helps. I recommend it anyway. Remember 2009? Remember narwhals, narwhals, swimmin' in the ocean? Remember Snape, Snape, Severus Snape. Snape, Snape, Severus Snape? Remember playing Nintendogs under your sheets on your DS on a rainy night in 2007 or playing Minecraft on a cool Autumn night while your parents fought downstairs in 2012? We can never go back, but we can try through simulation and emulation. Remember making images with Microsoft paint and word art and Kid Pix, you can use them again now! Try beating The Impossible Quiz , taking care of Nintendogs, creating a penguin, building a city, playing my personal favorite GameBoy Advance Game, or finding your own childhood games memories to play again using Internet Archive and other emulation services, tools and resources.
May 21, 2024
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The most magical feeling I know is the feeling of making. We live in a magical time. There are new tools to create instant songs and images and games and tools to create tools. I love making things with these tools, being generative, bringing group chat jokes to life. Collaboration is now possible when you’re all alone. But I also love being generative in more old school ways like using the techniques found in this incredible collection, The Surrealist Book of Games.
May 21, 2024
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Sometimes words are not enough so I recommend using unicode characters and combinations to communicate instead. Here are some of my favorite Unicode characters: 𓅸ꙮރ ྀི𓋤𐌕𓍯𓃹𓋜𓏲𖧻𓋫𖡎 ౨ৎ𓄯◌݉ ྀི 𓆫𑜸𓃛𓎛🀙𖭝𓆒୨୧ ꙰ 𛱠𓋇⟣𖡍𓍊ዣ𝑳𓆞𒆙𓆰𑜷ೀ𓆇◌្𓄧ᭆ𖤈𓇻𓄦 🀥⚭𓄒𖠖 ᭓𓆝ꮺ𖡫᭄𐩕🀦𑗗𓇼ִ ࣪𖤖 𖠘 𖠶𓁙.ೃ࿔𖡊🃝 𓆑𖡗𓆨𖤍 𖡹𖢅𖢄𖥓𖤒𖦄 𖥚𖤜𖣂𖤒𖦹𓇗 ༘⋆ᰔᩚೂ ༊𖭜ℓ🝮ൽ𒓡𖣂𑱡𒑆𓍼 ༘𑜸ꣃ𓃗꙳, click here or here if you want to search and find out what they mean or find your own favorites. You can combine them to make little pictures like this 𓏲ރ or this ೀ or into kaomojis as little faces ໒꒰ྀི˶•⤙•˶꒱ྀིა ʕ•͡-•ʔ and scenes ⎧ᴿᴵᴾ⎫◟◟◟◟◟◟◟◟ ❀◟(ó ̯ ò, ). This is my favorite kaomoji site, you can use it to find and create a face for any emotion or situation. _:(´ཀ`」∠):_ ˚‧º·(˚ ˃̣̣̥᷄⌓˂̣̣̥᷅ )‧º·˚
May 21, 2024