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