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Every Picture Tells A Story: Future Computers On Our Wrists (1981)

They were bang on the money there… Source: Imgur.

Every Picture Tells A Story: Buick Flamingo with swiveling passenger seat (1961)

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Every Picture Tells A Story: Oregon Historical Society Girls basketball team, 1915

Documentary: Australia in the year 2020 (as envisaged in 1990)

This documentary from the late 80’s/early 90’s Australia offers fascinating insights into what the pre-internet world thought the new century i.e. right now would be like. As a child I remember watching this TV show and pondering about what 202o would be like. It felt like a pipedream to me, as inconceivable as driving a moon rocketContinue reading “Documentary: Australia in the year 2020 (as envisaged in 1990)”

Every Picture Tells A Story: Vinyl listening booths, London (1955)

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Walter Kronkite: The Promise of the 21st Century’s Bounty (1967)

Quaint, hopeful and at times creepily accurate. This story with Walter Kronkite is just fascinating, as a historical artifact, and also to see just how many of these ideas actually came to fruition and how far beyond these simple ways of living we have come. “The domestication of the computer is upon us”. And what aContinue reading “Walter Kronkite: The Promise of the 21st Century’s Bounty (1967)”

Every Picture Tells A Story: Child Sees Television for the First Time

Every Picture Tells A Story: Apple Clothing, Circa 1984

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The Vintage Restart Page

Are you lonely and nostalgic for all of the crappy, interminably slow and dull-as-dishwater computers that you have possessed in the past. If you answered yes then enter into the timewarp that is the Vintage Restart Page. This features all of the crappy clip art graphics and quaintly exaggerated shadowing on buttons that you haveContinue reading “The Vintage Restart Page”

Welcome to a Gothic Imaginary City That’s Flint Black, Neon and Rainy

This Gothic and Imaginary London is Flint Black, Neon and Rainy

Pete Amachree is a talented British digital painter who created this magnificent and gothic cityscapes of imaginary cities. A big shout out goes to Imaginary Cities who tipped me off about this extraordinary artist and to Pete Amachree himself for creating these gems. According to his DeviantArt profile, Pete is inspired by photographer Man RayContinue reading “Welcome to a Gothic Imaginary City That’s Flint Black, Neon and Rainy”