Take a trip back in time to the hey-day of the dot com boom, while also finding out what became of all the web 1.0 superstars.
Whatever happened to the superstars of the dot com boom?
Posted by John Lampard on Thursday, 4 March, 2010 to the web subset
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Photos of London in the 1960s
Posted by John Lampard on Thursday, 25 February, 2010 to the photography subset
As they say, if you don’t remember London in the 1960s, it means you were there.
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World’s oldest temple unearthed in Sanliurfa, Turkey
Posted by John Lampard on Wednesday, 24 February, 2010 to the comment subset
I thought some of the ancient sites I saw while in Turkey were reasonably… ancient, but recently a team of archeologists have unearthed a temple believed to be 11,500 years old near Sanliurfa – in the country’s south east – a structure that considerably pre-dates a number of other historic sites around the world.
Though [...]
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The life, times, and work of rock music photographers
Posted by John Lampard on Monday, 22 February, 2010 to the photography subset
Music photographers talk about working with iconic musicians such as U2, Bob Marley, REM, Jimi Hendrix, and Marianne Faithfull, and the stories behind some of their favourite photos.
We arrived at their hotel and introduced ourselves. There was a bit of a nervous ”atmosphere” – after all, this was the early days of two cultures [...]
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Alternative timelines, what if Watergate never happened?
Posted by John Lampard on Monday, 22 February, 2010 to the comment subset
Standing between an entirely different version of US history, quite possibly only an alert security guard at the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate complex in Washington D.C.
Indeed, to visit the magnificent Nixon Library in Los Angeles is to be reminded of the man’s historic stature. Beside the display devoted to his 1976 [...]
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Most museums exhibits are best seen online
Posted by John Lampard on Wednesday, 10 February, 2010 to the technology subset
Ten of the world’s best online museums: given museums can only physically display a fraction of their actual collections, it is well worth checking out their websites, which often feature high definition scans of many of their unseen artifacts.
Museums are rarely able to exhibit more than a fraction of the material they own, and even [...]
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If you could send letters to dead people what would you say?
Posted by John Lampard on Friday, 5 February, 2010 to the comment subset
Agatha Christie, J.D. Salinger, Isaac Newton, Ernest Hemingway, and Marie Antoinette are some well known dead people who have been lucky enough to have been sent letters from Celine Song.
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Re:collection, a collection of Australian graphic design work
Posted by John Lampard on Friday, 5 February, 2010 to the design and art subset
Launched in October last year, Re:collection is Melbourne based graphic designer Dominic Hofstede’s collection of graphic design works created in Australia from 1960 to 1980.
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A photographic history of computers from 1946 to 2010
Posted by John Lampard on Thursday, 4 February, 2010 to the photography subset
From the first mainframe computers of the late 1940’s – that probably occupied a couple of rooms – to the sleek, almost pocket size, Apple iPad, computers have come a long way.
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Preserving hand painted building signage for the future
Posted by John Lampard on Thursday, 4 February, 2010 to the photography subset
Mark Spurgeon’s new project, Preserve, aims to keep a photographic record of vintage hand painted building signs before they finally decay, or are destroyed.
Preserve is on going project to produce a permanent visual record of hand painted building signage. Many of these are being erased from our cityscapes either being worn away by weather [...]
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