: "Too large for humans alone" (5:42) Multiple AIs working with multiple humans, each contributing what the others couldn't. That's …
: "We're at a fork in the road" How to spot fake AI photos | Hany Farid | TED April 2025 (8:20) I think this image is a bit of a …
: "Just a bigger roller coaster" CHM Live | Apple at 50: Five Decades of Thinking Different (1:14:10, Avie Tevanian) A couple days …
: The Robot of Invention, 1960 The idea of invention is important here, and also the notion of patenting an invention. It’s unclear …
: "Roberta" in robot costume, 1966 In 1966, “Roberta,” also known as “the housewife of tomorrow,” appeared at Macy’s in New York to …
: More robot costumes, but in 1968 Speaking of people in robot costumes, this British Pathé video shows “Miss Honeywell” in 1968. (via …
: Robot costumes An article on Vox, This is AI's Actual Endgame, (Apple News) referenced the person-in-a-robot-suit …
: Her, HAL, glaze, and vanilla Some notes on personality changes in OpenAI’s ChatGPT: Regarding the “her” tweet for GPT-4o, or …
: Silicon E. Coyote I came across this post at kottke.org, Silicon Doodles & Microchip Art. It’s quite the meeting of …
: Are you familiar with this item? Welcome once again — once again...your shell repayment is coming up. I never played the 1990s …
: I wish that everyone could win It means a lot, because it's hard and cruel to be a professional cyclist, you suffer a lot in …
: I am Account Number Frustration with computers may be familiar to us now, but in the late 1960s and early 1970s it had …
: This crowd! Such great energy at the final stage of the 2025 Tour de France! This Instagram post really captures …
: "Stop me if you've already seen this" The famously secretive iPhone maker has zero — and we mean zero — patience with product leaks.1 I …
: Shudder at "AI" in 1964 Many researchers shudder at the phrase “artificial intelligence.” Its anthropomorphic overtones, …
: "Did I just do it again???" Instagram post with great photos from Thymen Arensman, after his Stage 19 win at the 2025 Tour de …
: Almost Aliens Another great ride by Thymen Arensman today! It’s his second stage win in the 2025 Tour de France. …
: Academic Digital Presence I created the infographic below for a Canvas certification course, “Humanizing Learning in Canvas.” …
: New Apple Displays on the Horizon A new Apple Pro Display XDR is being rumored. I hope the price comes down, for the display and its …
: Coyote Time and Empathetic Design “Failure is a path, not an immediate result.”1 I was listening to ATP podcast, and John Siracusa …
: A Computer is Quite Dead Man and Computer: A Perspective, IBM, 1967 (Computer History Museum). “In studying the principals, …
: Mop and pail The “mop and pail” in the computer room were a constant theme for mainframes in the late 1950s and …
: AI Road Runner “No dialogue ever, except “Beep-Beep!” I took this photo at the Museum of the Moving Image in …
: Wills, Trusts, Estates, and Shell Companies “First you must ask yourself…are you wealthy?” The Laundromat on Netflix (2019) is quite good, and …
: The computer programmer catcher These days it’s more likely to be AI engineering than computer programming, but the rapid cultural …
: AI slop John Oliver on Last Week Tonight regarding AI slop. “AI slop is basically the newest iteration of …
: Siri in 1967? “The Professor and the Computer: 1985,” from Datamation magazine, August 1967 (pp. 56, 58). This …
: We're in TDF: Unchained! We’re in TDF: Unchained! We finished watching Tour de France: Unchained on Netflix, and we’re in the …
: Tour de France: Unchained - Season 3 on Netflix So excited to watch Tour de France: Unchained, Season 3, especially after visiting the Tour during …
: Murderbot and his "Hippie Clients" I’m enjoying the Apple TV series, “Murderbot." The mix of “green world” (organic and open), and …
: Honeywell Rabbit Sculpture Honeywell Rabbit Sculpture (ca. 1965) at the Computer History Museum. The Rabbit sculpture features …
: Univac ad - Fortune magazine, September 1956 Early computers, from the scientific world to the business world. "Univac - For Finding Lost Moons …
: Photos - Tour de France 2024 Photos from our trip to the 2024 Tour de France, week three in Nice. We toured with Custom Getaways …
: Hyper-Reality Hyper-Reality on Vimeo was posted 9 years ago, but it feels like the not-so-distant future, like in …
: Video - Tour de France 2024 Video from our trip to the 2024 Tour de France, it’s 15min but quite entertaining! We toured with …
: iPad traffic lights Easter egg Is it just me, or was there a pre-roll before Craig’s F1 driving showing an Easter egg of the iPad …
: 6 out of 5 stars - Apple WWDC 2025 One of the best parts of the WWDC 2025 Keynote, “6 out of 5 ⭐️” by Allen Stone.
: Visualizing History Histography is a data visualization project by Martin Stauber, and it’s pretty amazing. …
: Deep LA Conference at The Huntington I’ll be presenting a paper at the “Deep L.A.” graduate history conference taking place at The …
: The Census Has Always Been "Big Data" The Census has always been “Big Data,” with or without computers and the automation of information. …
: Digital Imaginaries at AoIR Something tells me I should have applied to the Association of Internet Researchers annual …
: The New Video Arcades: Like A Working Museum, with Beer Great article over at Polygon on new video game arcades: What it's Like Running an Arcade in 2015 …
: People Working in Computer Room As part of my dissertation I’m working with the Southern California Edison Photographs and Negatives …
: Univac 494 marketing photographs I came across this Univac photograph online, showing three people working in a computer room. Using …
: I’ll See You Online: Teaching Assistants, Google Hangouts, and the Online Classroom This paper was presented at the Cultural Studies Association annual conference in Riverside, CA in …
: Amazon: The New Consumer's Bible From November 2013, Derek Thompson writing for The Atlantic: The Amazon Mystery: What America’s …
: Anything Mechanical, Give it a Good Bash “Percussive Maintenance,” by Duncan Robson What a great supercut. Montage videos like this are good …
: McConaughey Reacts to Star Wars Matthew McConaughey’s reaction to Star Wars teaser #2 (an Interstellar and Star Wars remix) I feel …
: Whatever You Do, Don't Shout "Cut" The Story of the Indiana Jones Bridge Scene The night before I said to Steven [Spielberg], whatever …
: A Constant State of Alarm - The Undersea Network Excerpts from The Undersea Network, Duke Press, 2015, by Nicole Starosielski. These excerpts are …
: Undersea Cables and Cybersecurity in Australia Australia’s vulnerable submarine cables, by Jessica Woodall at The Australian Strategic Policy …
: Finding the Death of the Mainframe Stewart Alsop, editor for Infoworld magazine in the 1990s eating his words, "Death to the …
: Sea Monsters and Submarine Cables Vintage-style map of submarine cables by TeleGeography (Wayback Machine link). This year’s map pays …
: We Don't See Mainframes as Legacy Technology Half-century milestone for IBM mainframes, by Mark Ward at BBC News, April 7th, 2014. IBM System/360 …
: IBM System/360 - 50th anniversary IBM recently celebrated the 50th anniversary of the System/360 mainframe, which was announced on …
: MLB Instant Replay - "Less Incentive To Go Crazy" From Field to Video Room: How Baseball’s Replay Review Will Work, by Richard Sandomir at the New …
: Baseball, Archives, and Video Metadata An article from 2010: For Baseball Archivists, a Tag Ends Every Play, by John Branch at the New York …
: Grace Hopper documentary - "The Queen of Code" The Queen of Code at FiveThirtyEight (Wayback Machine link) (YouTube video no longer available) …
: Teacher-Facilitators The Deconstruction of the K-12 Teacher, by Michael Godsy at The Atlantic (2015): There is a profound …
: Creating Digital Professionals BBC gives children mini-computers in Make it Digital scheme, by Jane Wakefield at BBC News, 2015: …
: Just a Little Acronym We Thought Up xkcd comic on Douglas Engelbart and the "Mother of All Demos" in 1968 http://xkcd.com/1234/ The …
: It Looks Like 20 Feet If only I had this when I was still riding ramps! www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNL9kuWwFes (video no …
: 5 MB of Data on 62,500 Punched Cards “Programmer standing beside punched cards” “This stack of 62,500 punched cards — 5 MB worth — held …
: Punch Card Jam Needs Some Force In 2010, representatives from the Computer History Museum visited a company in Texas still using an …
: Mainframes are so 50 years ago I came across this tweet as an advertisement in my own Twitter feed. It’s meant to be ironic, …
: Computers Never Lie About Love “Comput-Her Baby” - a short film by Dave Goldson and Neal Chastain, 1968 A satire on computer …
: The Machine That Changed the World - video series Thanks to Andy Baio, all five parts of The Machine That Changed the World are available online: …
: I Desire to Become Data Fragments on Machines, a film by Emma Charles An interesting and very artistic take on the …
: Digital Archaeology at The Deleted City In an heroic effort to preserve 10 years of collaborative work by 35 million people [Geocities], …
: Outside the Spacecraft - NASM Outside the Spacecraft, an interactive museum exhibit at the Smithsonian National Air and Space …
: Archive Team - Robots.txt is a suicide note ROBOTS.TXT IS A SUICIDE NOTE ROBOTS.TXT is a stupid, silly idea in the modern era. Archive Team …
: The Holmdel Computer Center - Part 2 The Holmdel Computer Center, Part 2 – AT&T Archives (Wayback Machine link) This rare look inside a …
: The Holmdel Computer Center - AT&T archives There’s some interesting artwork on the timeshare computer…reminds me of the “nose art” on military …
: Fred Soper - Wikipedia I happened across an historical US passport for Fred Soper (1893-1977), the American epidemiologist …
: Historical Discourse and Hollywood Films The Case for Hollywood History, Francine Prose at the New York Review of Books, 2015: It’s so much …
: Control Data Cyber 170 mainframes Two Control Data Cyber 170 mainframe computers, side by side – one online, and one as a spare. …
: Careers and Digital Lifespans Campus digital workhorse running final laps after 35 years (Wayback Machine link), by Barbara …
: It was physically demanding labor Hello, Goodbye - CDS Bids Farewell to Mainframe, Ushers in New Beginning In 1998 the Catalog …
: Digital Matisse Speaking of museums and their digital presence, MoMA has an interactive exhibit covering their …
: UCLA Differential Analyzer - 1948 film UCLA’s 1948 Mechanical Computer Was Simply Gorgeous To Watch in Action (Wayback Machine link), by …
: Files and Folders Before Computers Filing Cabinets, a Neglected Piece of Business History, by Linda Gross, the Hagley Library: Dr. …
: Matthew Kirschenbaum - Track Changes Kirschenbaum’s Tumblr blog on his book project - http://trackchangesbook.tumblr.com Matthew …
: Gladwell on the Social Life of Paper Paper strips shown at faa.gov (Wayback Machine link) Malcolm Gladwell’s 2002 article on paperwork …
: Museums and Digital Presence It’s wonderful to see museums considering their digital presence as an extension of their purpose – …
: Q & A with Craig Robertson on The Passport in America Craig Robertson, by Christopher Klein at the Boston Globe, 2013. The assumption behind the system …
: Paperwork Studies as an Historical Field The Paper Trail Through History (NYTimes gift link), by Jennifer Schuessler, the New York Times, …
: Project poster and talk last October Last October I gave a “brown bag” talk (Wayback Machine link) over lunch in the History Department …
: Paperwork Explosion This video, created by Jim Henson in 1967 for IBM, makes a great first post. So much anxiety, so …
: My post on Wikipedia Edit-a-thons at NCPH Public History Commons A few months ago, I wrote about a Wikipedia Edit-a-thon workshop at the UCR Library on the CDH …
: Cultural Studies Association - Critical DH Roundtable call for participants Critical Digital Humanities is putting together a roundtable for this year’s Cultural Studies …
: All Things Digital at UCR At a few recent meetings we’ve talked about the new digital projects and resources being developed …
: THATCamp DHSoCal THATCamp DHSoCal: Diving into Digital Humanities October 24th and 25th, 2014 San Diego State …
: Digital Pedagogy workshop for TAs Ever wondered what digital pedagogy is? Want to know what it’s like to teach online? Wonder no more. …
: Notes on TEI and Markup Fundamentals workshop My post at Critical Digital Humanities on a recent workshop: TEI and Markup Fundamentals …
: Event Archive: Rethinking Debates on Digital Learning . 12 Feb 2014 My post at Critical Digital Humanities on a recent talk: CDH Event Archive: Rethinking Debates on …
: Notes on Virtual Lectures The virtual lecture that Professor Levy gave to her CHASS F1RST class on Monday went very well. This …
: Virtual Lectures and the Digital Classroom This winter quarter I am a research assistant working on digital pedagogy and instruction at UC …
: Moth in Relay In 1947 a moth was found in a relay switch on the Mark II electromechanical computer, a true …
: Lincoln's shadow Today is the 150th anniversary of the Gettysburg Address. Lincoln casts quite a shadow in history. …
: Assembled in the USA Apple - Making the Mac Pro (2013) I love videos like this, especially the “How it’s Made” series on …
: How the Enigma Machine worked Murlyn Hakon of Bletchley Park explains how the Enigma Machine worked. The remarkable thing about …
: Mavis Batey: Bletchley Park codebreaker Mavis Batey was one of the codebreakers working at Bletchley Park during World War II. She recently …
: George Romero: It's not about the zombies Horror film legend George Romero on zombies: I always used the zombie as a character for satire or …
: Quantum Computing and Pizza Bagel Entanglement Google, NASA, and D-Wave are teaming up to take quantum computing to the next level. The case or …
: Quantum Computing 101 Quantum Computers Animated, Piled Higher and Deeper (PHD Comics) The illustrations for this video on …
: Rewiring Class Emails and Student Interaction with Piazza In a previous post I wrote about the experience of teaching an online class as a TA. One of the …
: Infectious Information: History and the Dissertation Quarantine On July 22nd, 2013, the American Historical Association published to their blog a statement …
: The back-end of online classes In "Who is Driving the Online Locomotive," (Wayback Machine link) Rob Jenkins asks some pertinent …
: Digital pedagogy and the online classroom A few days ago I finished grading for an online summer class, The History of Latin America …
: Hipsters and nice-looking web pages Unintentional Hipster Faculty (Wayback Machine link) Making a nice-looking Web page is just too …
: BAM Colloquium this Friday Please join us for the Year-End Colloquium for Graduate Students in "BAM." Designated Emphasis in …
: CDH event: Animated Music Screening and Talk - May 30th Cindy Keefer, Archivist, Curator & Director . Center for Visual Music Preserving Visual Music : The …
: The Quantum Cloud Google Buys a Quantum Computer Google did not say how it might deploy a quantum computer into its …
: Geographies of Detention at UCR Arts Block UCR ARTSblock presents the exhibition: Geographies of Detention: From Guantánamo to the Golden Gulag …
: The "3000-pound spreadsheet machine" If It Ain’t Broke, Don’t Fix It: Ancient Computers in Use Today (Wayback Machine link) Companies …
: Keeping TaB with diet soda TaB soda was named by an IBM mainframe (Wayback Machine link) – now it makes sense. The name was …
: Yosemite - Summer 2012 About a month or so ago my wife and I went on a camping trip with some friends in Yosemite National …
: Map of the Inca Empire This map of the Inca Empire (Wayback Machine link) is great for showing the rapid expansion of the …
: Map of Spanish Viceroyalties I came across this map of Spanish viceroyalties (link no longer available) a few months ago, and …
: Ruins of the Acropolis, 1966 - Athens, Greece These photos (Kodak slides) were also taken by my grandparents while on vacation in 1966, and …
: Roman Ruins, 1966 - Rome, Italy These photos of Roman ruins were taken in 1966 by my grandparents. These images are scanned Kodak …
: A Courtesy - Not an Obligation I’m not a “curator” Some might as a courtesy, but it shouldn’t be considered an obligation. via DF …
: The artistry of the postmodern GIF Animated GIFs: The Birth of a Medium | Off Book | PBS Digital Studios (Revised and republished April …
: Presenting in Seattle I just returned from a history conference in Seattle. It was the annual meeting of the Pacific Coast …
: Lake Tahoe Milky Way Night Time Lapse on Vimeo Lake Tahoe Milky Way Night Time Lapse (Revised and republished April 21st, 2025)
: New Digital Humanities Minor at UCLA I'm interested to find out more about this new program at UCLA. It seems like an excellent way to …
: Born Digital newspaper project This summer I've been working on the "Born Digital" project at the Center for Bibliographic Studies …
: Blogging, 18th-Century Style Harvard Historian Robert Darnton on Blogging, 18th-Century Style – The Getty Iris. An 18th-century …
: Remember The Conference I'm in San Antonio, Texas, today (right down the street from ) to present a paper at the PCA/ACA …
: Book Review: The Conquest of Nature In our class tonight on Environmental History: "Nature, Space, and Place," we'll be discussing David …
: The Shadow Scholar The Shadow Scholar - The Chronicle Review - The Chronicle of Higher Education (Wayback Machine …
: The Mexican Suitcase Images of War, Finally Unpacked - The New York Times, 2010 (Revised and republished April 19th, …
: The Illustrated Guide to a Ph.D. The Illustrated Guide to a Ph.D., Matthew Might, 2010: You push at the boundary for a few years, …