A Little More Web Kipple
While I have both tags and categories marked as ‘Ephemera’, my random collection of witterings about various bits of historic ephemera is no-where near as well structured or as well targeted as Ephemeral 80s.
I’m going to be honest, while any site can be for anyone, you probably have to be of a certain age and to have spent time in certain select (but middling) British demographics for it to truly hit home.
Continue reading “Ephemeral 80s”Poking around the Science Museum’s archives, I came across this rather fabulous ‘Dick Turpin’ themed LNER poster for train travel to York.
Just look at how wonderful it is!
Double-decker bus racing from 1982. I absolutely love that it’s sponsored by Acorn Computers a year after they launched the BBC Micro!
Here’s something to take the edge off that liminal space between Christmas and New Year; two nicely illustrated articles from Adam Rowe’s always fun 70s Sci-Fi Art.
First we have Trains of the Future…
…and then Trains of the Past.
A double-bill today; first, a surfing Santa and his knitted elves at Hawes bridge on Gale Beck.
There’s a rather festive snowflake hot air balloon just outside of Malton’s St Michael’s Church.
As we are merely days away from Christmas it seems entirely appropriate to drop some images of a fantastic Santa-themed topper in Malton.
Unlike most of the other toppers from Malton I have posted, this one can be found at the south end of The Shambles, just outside of Cosy Cottage Soap.
Abort Retry Fail has a really nice post on opening and installing a new old stock Red Spine release of OS/2 Warp 3.0.
Now, while I’ve played around with OS/2 Warp 4.0 and 4.52 as part of Period Sites in Period Browsers, Warp 3.0 is not one I’ve yet reached.
And how uncanny it looks! Familiar but alien. Windows 3.1 but not. I should really get an instance of this up and running just so I can really feel – rather than just see – the differences between how I expect it to work and how it does work…
Anyway, I strongly suggest going and having a read of the article and a look at the pretty pictures.
And here’s another interesting chunk of Archivery via Period Sites in Period Browsers that doesn’t appear to be online anywhere else – A mid 1990s chronology of the BSE outbreak in the UK as published by the MAFF.
Continue reading “BSE, A 90s Chronology of Events”
