Applsauss

Hmm..

[nemfrog]

Bat. The Home and school reference work. v.1. 1923.

Internet Archive

[nemfrog]

Twisted tree trunks and birds. Die Pflanze in Kunst und Gewerbe. v.2. 1886?

Internet Archive

[happyheidi]

𝑦𝑜𝑢’𝑟𝑒 𝑙𝑜𝑠𝑡, 𝑏𝑢𝑡 𝑦𝑜𝑢’𝑣𝑒 𝑎𝑙𝑠𝑜 𝑒𝑠𝑐𝑎𝑝𝑒𝑑

By Bao Tran Trung

[retroscifiart]

Art by Tim White for Wildeblood's Empire by Brian M. Stableford (1979)

[humanoidhistory]

Birthday boy William Shatner.

[retroscifiart]

David Bergen - Shipwreck from the book The Flights of Icarus (1977) by Donald Lehmkuhl with Martyn and Roger Dean

[lionfloss]

Forestry Experiments 1973 — To achieve this effect, researchers planted trees in 10 degree radial increments to form 10 concentric circles. The ‘crop circle’ forest can still be seen today and is located in the Miyazaki Prefecture of southern Japan.

[existentialterror]

Sometimes I’m looking for something online - often “how to” articles - and I want to filter for - like - a website that was clearly built in 2010 at the latest, which may or may not have been updated since then, but contains a vast wealth of information on one topic, painstakingly organized by an unknown legend in the field with decades’ worth of experience. I don’t want a listicle with a nice stolen picture in a slideshow format written by a content aggregator that God forgot. I want hand-drawn diagrams by some genius professor who doesn’t understand SEO at all, but understands making stir-fries or raising stick insects better than anyone else on this earth. I don’t know what search settings to put into Google to get this.

[greenjudy]

thank you for articulating this cri de coeur for me

[jumpingjacktrash]

ngl these days i’m just happy when it’s not a video

[averixus]

search.marginalia.nu is the search engine you want!

The search engine calculates a score that aggressively favors text-heavy websites, and punishes those that have too many modern web design features.

This is in a sense the opposite of what most major search engines do, they favor modern websites over old-looking ones. Most links you find here will be nearly impossible to find on a regular search engine, as they aren’t sufficiently search engine optimized.

[ashby-santoso]

“It is a search engine, designed to help you find what you didn’t even know you were looking for. If you search for “Plato”, you might for example end up at the Canterbury Tales. Go looking for the Canterbury Tales, and you may stumble upon Neil Gaiman’s blog.

If you are looking for fact, this is almost certainly the wrong tool. If you are looking for serendipity, you’re on the right track. When was the last time you just stumbled onto something interesting, by the way?

I don’t expect this will be the next “big” search engine. This is and will remain a niche tool for a niche audience.“

[ms-demeanor]

i clicked around for a few minutes searching various things and I now have two fourteenth century pie crust recipes and an apple filling recipe i want to try, so thanks!

[ms-demeanor]

it has been twenty minutes and I am deeply in love with this search engine.

INCREDIBLE. I *do* want to know how to test Windows 95 for Y2K Compliance and I am glad that someone is still hosting step by step instructions for that.

[workfornow]

tl;dr: search.marginalia.nu for the old or old looking and just plain serendipitous stuff that google or Duck duck go are gonna not find/bury on the 20th page. For perfectly good reasons, but …

[existentialterror]

My absolute favorite part of having made this post - other than causing people to be introduced to this site - are the people in the tags/comments talking about their interests and stuff they found about their hobbies.

Good luck out there surfing the cyberweb, you crazy cats. I love the shoelace website too - Ian’s Shoelace Site [link], unless there’s another. My personal favorite old-school site is Alysion’s string figure collection [link].

[the-evil-clergyman]

Ariadne by John William Waterhouse (1898)

[humanoidhistory]

Robert McCall space art on the cover of Boy’s Life, June 1972.

[70sscifiart]

This one combines a couple of my favorite art tropes: A space helmet reflection and a cheeky self-portrait.

[lionfloss]

A Bug's Life (1998)

[lionfloss]

by Peter Nijenhuis

[nemfrog]

"Airman's winter uniform." Polar guide. 1948.

Internet Archive

[vanajinn]

young lady with a hearing aid 🍊🦻🏾 [ko-fi / prints]

[ID: a digital drawing of a black girl in profile from the neck up. Her hair is in many small braids, each ending in round yellow beads with green stems that resemble oranges. She has an orange-coloured over the ear hearing aid and a large earring shaped like an orange. end ID]

[lionfloss]

Socotra dragon tree

[lionfloss]

joemortell

[70sscifiart]

Rick Guidice