Old is the New New

This blog post at Attic #42 hits several of my sweet spots: telephone history, KGB surveillance, a plea for open-source technology, and a gripe about PDFs.

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The Kinematrix has you: three alternate Victorian internets.

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Plus the Jimmy Carterian Internet and the Millennial Pneumatic Tube.

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Guess my so-called friends were outbid: that first telephone book sold for $170,500. I would have “settled” for the ENIGMA machine which went for $104,500.

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Is John Hodgman the last observer of Gilded Age telephone etiquette? I WOULD NOT PUT IT PAST HIM.

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Ben Franklin’s ghost tapped John Murray Spear to build an electrical messiah and save the world. Who was using who?

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Gilded Age gaming at the Museum of Lost Interactions.

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In which our hero tries his hand at that most diverting genre of blog posts, impotent griping about lousy customer service.

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Ben Franklin returns, with a time-traveling chess-playing robot and a cast of dozens, in my mostest award-winningest post.

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The network isn’t virtual. It’s physical, and that matters.

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