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@dialup.cafere: my last post - if you didn't already know, Stephen Biesty has the most beautifully animated and hilariously voiced multimedia version of Incredible Cross-Sections, called: Stowaway!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9jKE6Y7vJQ
#retroGaming #windows311
wondrous Boardwatch BBS magazine "top 100" boards in the united states from 1994. this was based on a reader's choice vote-in.
the first two boards are (respectively) the homes of Apogee software and Epic MegaGames shareware publishers.
now just guess how many of the remaining 98 are porn boards!
credit: @fearfair on /r/bbs: https://i.redd.it/5pb1m577m9pd1.jpeg
#shareware #bbs #retroGaming
academic researchers/readers of mastodon: is there a solid historical book (books?) that documents and explores the transition from the mechanical age to the age of “modern” technology as someone like heidegger understands the term technology?
i’m imagining a book that interprets the social and cultural transformations between the late medieval and victorian periods, from older conceptions of morality and mechanism to newer ideas about individualism and automation? eg. documenting not only demographic changes, but also the ways of thinking about people that were preconditions for modern technological thought.
i realize this is a rather nebulous request covering a huge time span, but my background is in the philosophy of science and not british history literature.
#academicmastodon #history
i can't believe it took me 10 years to find out that Transport Tycoon got a full live jazz orchestral remaster of its midi soundtrack 🤯
and it sounds GREAT. john broomhall and his "TT band" knock every piece out of the park
https://archive.org/details/Transport-Tycoon-2014-OST
#retroGaming #music #ost