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Illustration from ‘Zen and the Art of the Macintosh - Discoveries on the Path to Computer Enlightenment’, Michael Green, 1988

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Happy Computer Plant Life monday everybody

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5500- 4000 BC: Sumerian clay balls for record keeping.

“The clay balls may represent the world’s "very first data storage system. The balls, often called "envelopes” by researchers, were sealed and contain tokens in a variety of geometric shapes.“

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Jean-Baptiste Durand / Voices in my Head (Hung) / Installation / 2025

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Juyong Shim / Horn Series / Stool / 2025

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Jean-Baptiste Durand / Hyperbeast – Black / Armchair / 2024

[gameraboy]

Want to send a photo by telephone in the 1970s? You’re looking at the United Press International UPI Model 16-S photo transmitter.  The photo would spin in the drum and one line at a time would be sent. Typically it’d take 26 minutes for one photo!  Via PetaPixel

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Me, logging on to work after the long weekend

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A lizard in a Sep 1987 ad for GOULD electronics in Computer magazine. The ad’s about how they can adapt “with the skill of a chameleon,” which a different reptile entirely.

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What really makes us so different?

Is mechanical life really so much below organic life?

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Minitel cover magazine (1980) via jmailland

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Alexander Graham Bell's original drawing of the telephone concept

1876

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White House Telegraph Room

1898

E.C. Heasley, Jules A. Rodier, and Major Montgomery working in the White House's Telegraph Room—which was set up to receive news of the Spanish-American War—in Washington, D.C., 1898.

Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (digital. id. cph.3b37154)

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Marion S. Trikosko, photographer.

1964

 [Men, possibly broadcasting technicians, seated in front of bank of television sets at the Democratic Headquarters at the Mayflower Hotel, Washington, D.C. on election night, November 3, 1964]. Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division.

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Wind display - painted plastic plates blowing in the wind. Made by Dušan Váňa in 2015. h/t: Ailadi

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