Digital Antiquarian Gifts

Archeologists discover Egyptian Computers.

'Nothing beats seeing your favourite band play live.'

"I imagined the Library of Congress would be much bigger."

Video Henge: made from melting and molding 3,000,000 obsolete VCR tapes.

Two Generations of Readers

Fenton G. Gonklemeyer, Computer Scientist - Booted Up 1928 and Crashed 2009.

"David live a rich, full life, despite what his Wikipedia page says."

'Sorry, but we're not compatible, Jim. You keep a diary, and I blog on the Internet.'

Early Programmers.

"I'll never forget you."

"My Gmail account is full. I can't get any more email." "So?" "I'll miss email. It was so old-timey. You could write hundreds or even thousands of words, with actual paragraphs." "People didn't see any little animations to show them you were typing. They had to actually wonder if you were going to reply." "And the spam was fun. You never got to hear from Nigerian princes while you're checking your texts." "Just delete stuff." "If you delete a few gigs of old emails, you'll be able to get n

Wow, Ernie, another previously undiscovered tomb. And it has some unusual images. Is that a picture of the first sandwich? A thumbs up is next to it. The first "like"! Here's a drawing of a family and a heart has been added. The first emoji! This bird looks exactly like one we saw in the last tomb. The first retweet. Could this be the first social media? Yes! And this is how they scrolled!

Megabyte Information Processing Center.

Collected works

How to create a password you can remember...

''The Thinker' is an outdated concept.'

"What was the point of writing a blog that nobody else could read?"

"I let go of all my earthly attachments, but there's one I can't seem to shake."

The dead sea scrolls

Snake Blogging,

'Hurry up, I'm dying to use the blog'

Man 'Gogols' the Overcoat.

"It started out as the Great American Novel. Then The Great American Screenplay. . . Short Story. . . Blog Post. . . And now I've got it edited down to a Tweet."

"Of course I try to communicate with him - I update my blog almost daily."

"And can one illuminate the manuscript?"

National Archives

"Great, but where are all the books?"

"I'm doing a think piece on me."

"Can't believe you've still got an eight-track player in this thing."

"My computer tower is so big and old, I had to rent a forklift to remove it from my home."

'All my opinions are posted on my online blog.'

"Dear diary, I'm leaving you for a Twitter account—it's not you, it's technology..."

Boss, the health inspector is here. Excellent. My hacker just finished restoring all the inspector's social media posts dating back to 1994. Tell him "It'd be a shame if someone's career were ruined by a 20-year-old video of him doing the Macarena in the buff." Don't wink too much. But not too little, either. Very bad man.

'Oh, I am SO going to put this on my blog!'

Happiness is blogging the first days of summer.