bagpuss

i'm not on board

a name change will be required shortly, previous "zuck" themed products have been threatened for same

it's a slippery slope alright

there's neoseed.io that sends out emails weekly with "ideas you can replicate"

what happened on Bouvet Island? will we ever know?

if someone relies on an upgrade for 8 years, $2 is not enough!

there's also Adam Croot, who liked to register the handle "undefined" where possible

Bring me the head of Adam Croot - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1501799

ooh Ron Grainer also did the delightfully creepy theme tune to Tales of the Unexpected

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=js7T-VTL91k

cool! you might like https://www.phatmedia.co.uk/

some cutting edge stuff for the time, as well as some awful design!

tell us more?

give Do You Radio a try, former NTS guys went out on their own, all available on mixcloud so you can flick through bits you don't like

https://doyou.world/

to clarify, i have nothing to do with this site, i used it once, years back and there was a free tier or at least a free/crippled version at that time

posters, enhance your calm

- bagpuss, fat furry cat puss

Archivarix is the most fully formed easiest way to do this, free https://archivarix.com/

see also landslide.com - a domain that should never have been reused imo

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one other thing i would suggest is to set up a catch-all email for the domain and see what gets sent to it, sometimes you can access accounts associated with the domain, socials etc

it also does it if you google "connare"

Google "connare" for more info!

why would i use this when youtube exists?

Young British Artist Michael Landy did this exact thing in 2001, cataloguing and destroying 7227 possessions.

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2021/jan/27/like-wi...

Just point your cursor to a room you'd like to enter and "click, you're there"

there are some people who can return to the same place in a daydream, this person says she had daydreamed (daydreamt?) 79 years of an imaginary world

https://theguardian.com/science/2022/aug/28/i-just-go-into-m...

tried to post the original headline but it was too long, using Octal

great response thank you! imagine the number of these that were just thrown out of old offices over the years!

URL too long

https://www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/2023/12/14/google-not-o...

I saw these in 70s espionage flick "Three Days of the Condor". Why are they so expensive? What use do they have in 2023?

The MONIAC built in the 1950s by Bill Phillips (of Phillips curve fame) attempted to model economic processes with coloured water (fluidic logic)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/MONIAC

Parature acquired by MS for $100m in 2014 used "supportportal.com", has now expired. Crazy to think something so valuable can be forgotten after less than a decade!

https://techcrunch.com/2014/01/06/microsoft-acquires-paratur...

don't forget Jimmy "Jimbo" Wales's Bomis webring thing, featuring the Bomis Babe Report!

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