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Our Friend the Computer

@OurFriendComp

a podcast exploring alternative computing histories hosted by @_camilagalaz and @anicka81657257 💞 friend of @mediarchaeology Y10 Art & Code member @newinc

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Joined January 2022
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kath@katherineleon22 Apr 2024
a lot of fun making this for @OurFriendComp @_camilagalaz @anicka81657257 ☻␛✷♡
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Our Friend the Computer (@OurFriendComp) profile pictureOur Friend the Computer@OurFriendComp20 Apr 2024
We made a zine! 🐚🌚💭 We're celebrating two years and 24 episodes of OFtC with a free digital zine, just for you! 🎉 Available from our website now! Designed by Katherine Leon, it includes texts from @rhizome @mediarchaeology, info on our episodes, and a crossword puzzle 💾
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Rhizome@rhizome18 Apr 2024
We'll be hanging with Our Friends @_camilagalaz + @anicka81657257 of @OurFriendComp this Saturday, April 20 at 12pm ET in the Discord and on twitch! RSVP: bit.ly/3U10xCZ
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text-mode.org@t3xtm0de28 Sep 2023
Emoticons from 1893. text-mode.org/?p=12085
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@xhfloz7 Sep 2023
Damn dude you're telling me everything is just files?
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Nettrice@nettieb5 Sep 2023
I remember my late mother who worked as a computer programmer/analyst from the 1970s to 1990s. Before that she helped desegregate Centre College and majored in Philosophy. She was brilliant. I did not know any Black women doing this type of work and of course it rubbed off on me.
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Kyle Chayka@chaykak28 Aug 2023
lately I love going to homepages... tap tap tap that url into the browser... see what's happening on a site...
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Web Design Museum
@WebDesignMuseum25 Aug 2023
Happy 28th Birthday Windows 95! Recall the aesthetics of Windows 95 and the 90s on the Windows 95 web page from 1996. #Windows95
Windows 95 website in 1996

ALT Windows 95 website in 1996

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Neal Agarwal
@nealagarwal14 Aug 2023
I'm working on a little museum about the early internet! what are some things I should include?
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₍˄·͈༝·͈˄*₎◞ ̑̑@brb_irl28 Jul 2023
you know what i love? files. too much stuff requires the internet, and for no good reason lol
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Tom Barber 🐀@torbar17 Jul 2023
So apparently imax theaters ran off of palm pilots for the quick turn reel unit. And nowadays, rather than having it run off a microcontroller or PC or raspberry pi or iPad, they just run a palm OS emulator? Lmao
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Emily - SF ✈️ Nov 7-21@the_aiju17 Jul 2023
Replying to @LewisCTech
yea this is how i feel about a lot of computer stuff, someone tells me about something new and shiny and i just sometimes go “wait IBM did that in the 60s….”
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OldTechAdverts@OldTechAdverts8 Feb 2023
Mac was seen as an expensive and niche computer in Australia. @Apple archive.org/details/yc_1985_… #retrocomputing #vintagecomputing #AppleMac
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Jason Scott@textfiles29 Jan 2023
A Calculated Move: Calculators are Now Emulated at Internet Archive. blog.archive.org/2023/01/29/…
A Calculated Move: Calculators Now Emulated at Internet Archive - Internet Archive Blogs

A Calculated Move: Calculators Now Emulated at Internet Archive - Internet Archive Blogs

It's time to add another family of emulated older technology to the Internet Archive.The vast majority of platforms within what we call The Emularity happens because of the work of MAME Team, which...

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zach lieberman
@zachlieberman27 Jan 2023
Screensaver art has had a huge impact on me. flying toasters, pipes, Lisajous lines, etc. even the notion that the computer “sleeps” and these are the dreams.
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Gerry McBride@GerryMcBride13 Nov 2022
After the early bricks but before smartphones, there was a stretch where phone design went absolutely catshit bananas (1/?)
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Todd Spence
@Todd_Spence12 Nov 2022
Sandra Bullock buying movie tickets on the net for the first time… for her movie THE NET
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chris🤖🌹@Mechazawa14 Aug 2022
why the fuck does this barbie pc game song slap so hard
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@PrinceVogel18 Sep 2022
Get in the car, we're exploring databases and finding friends
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columbo screenshots@ColumboScreens27 Jun 2022
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Web Design Museum
@WebDesignMuseum11 Jun 2022
Happy 25th Birthday Netscape Communicator 4.0! On June 11, 1997, at the time of the culmination of the first browser war, Netscape released Netscape Communicator 4.0, a web application suite. webdesignmuseum.org/old-soft… #Netscape #InternetHistory
Netscape Communicator 4.0

ALT Netscape Communicator 4.0

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