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Starmaster Ad (1982)

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Absolut Vodka ad (1994)

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Jose Cuervo Tequila ad (1965)

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Chuck Norris, 1993 Right Guard deodorant ad

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Revlon's Fire and Ice ad (1952)

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Kool Aid ad (1961)

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Camel Cigarettes Ad (1991)

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The Big Corn Man - Green Giant advertisement (1963)

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Mojud the dependable hosiery, 1943 ad

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No More Paperweight: This Vintage Brick Phone Is Back Online

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Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bUMHgfxNoo

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Advertisement for Kolynos toothpaste for the Swiss market (1949). Artwork and design by Fritz Bühler and Ruodi Barth.

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The Palmolive Co (1922)

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Atlas Supply Co (1954)

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It’s 1979 – What Exactly Did That ∫ Key Do?

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Life Savers Candy ad (1946)

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Pepsi Pop Art ad (1990)

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Hotel hides ancient switchboard behind the desk

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There are occasions when flicking a power switch can send a user into a world of bork-related pain, so it is sometimes worth taking a step back and reconsidering one’s life choices.

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How the Easy-Bake Oven, an Appliance That Allowed Kids to Heat Treats With a Light Bulb, Revolutionized the Toy Industry

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IBM Beam Spring: The Ultimate Retro Keyboard

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Inside Air Traffic Control: The IBM 9020

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Note: Summary is from Hack-a-Day since this is long but interesting read about how modern computerized air traffic control evolved.

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Is this retro technology?

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/58898407

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My Nixie clock my dad fixed and built a case for

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I have posted more info in the Pixelfed post

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Engineer Fixes and Re-Installs Old Payphones, Provides Free Calls to the Public

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Pot by Thomas Commeraw (c. 1772-1823), free Black potter in NYC

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From the recent exhibition at the New York Historical Society, “Crafting Freedom”. Commeraw’s work was already known and well regarded, but it was only a few years ago that records were uncovered revealing that he was a Black New Yorker and had been politically active, including leading a tragically failed colonization effort to Sierra Leone.

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PROFS: The Office Suite Of The 1980s

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Today, we take office software suites for granted. But in the 1970s, you were lucky to have a typewriter and access to a photocopier. But in the early 1980s, IBM rolled out PROFS — the Professional Office System — to try to revolutionize the office. It was an offshoot of an earlier internal system. The system would hardly qualify as an office suite today, but for the time it was very advanced.

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Powering On A 1985 Photophone CP220 Videoconference System

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What is a PC compatible?

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Why Do We Love Weird Old Tech?

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One of our newer writers, [Tyler August], recently wrote a love letter to plasma TV technology. Sitting between the ubiquitous LCD and the vanishing CRT, the plasma TV had its moment in the sun, but never became quite as popular as either of the other display techs, for all sorts of reasons. By all means, go read his article if you’re interested in the details. I’ll freely admit that it had me thinking that I needed a plasma TV.

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Barcodes, “Lasers”, And Fourier Transforms

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Original YT Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVBJg0J1v1s

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Teardown Of HP Optical Link And Signal Investigations Using Siglent Technology

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Anything with a laser has undeniable hacker appeal, even if the laser’s task is as pedestrian as sending data over a fiber optic cable. [Shahriar] from [The Signal Path] must agree, and you can watch as he tears down and investigates a fiber optic link made from old HP equipment in the video below.

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Philipp Matthäus Hahn's calculation drum

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How Many Phones Sport A 5 And 1/4 Diskette Drive? This One.

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Bringing Bluetooth To The Zune

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How A Failed Video Format Spawned A New Kind Of Microscope | Hackaday

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The Impending CRT Display Revival Will Be Televised

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These little TVs were everywhere (Panasonic TR-1203T) | Adrian's Digital Basement [39:05]

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PCBs The Prehistoric Way

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Returning To An Obsolete Home Movie Format

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Tiny Datasette Uses USB For The Modern Day

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Unboxing a NEW 25-Year-Old Sharp CD-BA200 Stereo System | LGR

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Creating A New Keyboard Flex For An Old Calculator

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Engineer restores pay phones for free public use

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Faux-CRT monitor designed to pair up with retro mini PCs to recreate CRT feeling — cute 8-incher puts retro design first by shoving a 60 Hz LCD panel behind a curved acrylic sheet

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King Assripper on a 1978 Magnavox videomadic television

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Reliving VHS Memories With NFC And ESPHome

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Whack-A-Disk

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Trash-picked CRT Television: Can I save it? | Adrian's Digital Basement [1:37:14]

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Three Decades Ago, Japanese Cars Got GPS Navigation From A Game Console

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Maxell MXCP-P100 is a portable cassette player with modern features like Bluetooth and USB-C

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Simon Boak's Period-Appropriate Paper Tape Punch Is Powered by Modern Arduino-Compatible Internals

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Retrotechtacular: 1970s Radio

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Do you remember Windows 95? How about Windows 96?

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That’s not a typo. Windows 96 promised to build on the success of Windows 95, yet it never materialized as originally intended.

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ESPer-CDP Plays CDs And Streams In Style

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A CRT Display For Retro Weather Forecasting

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Reconditioning A Vintage CRT Tube

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Closed captions on DVDs are getting left behind

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VHS Video Data Recovery

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Hi Folks,

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Oscilloscope Digital Storage, 1990s Style | Hackaday

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The DIY 1982 Picture Phone

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The cassette revival rolls on at the first annual NYC Tape Fair on Sunday

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Bringing Floppy Back

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This Tiny and Rare Sony CRT Is My Holy Grail

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Teardown Of Casio Credit Card-Sized Radio

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Liberty Tray numbered 5800. Possibly fake?

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Liberty silver plated tray. The stamp looks like it’s been stamped twice, overlapping slightly. Is this fake?

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Huge (almost 8ft x 5ft) imperial Qing dynasty map of the world, 1811, ink on paper

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The official title is “All-Under-Heaven Complete Map of the Everlasting Unified Qing Empire”. Modesty was not a concern…

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Silver teapot, 1713, London, by Thomas Parr I, at the Ashmolean Museum

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A beautiful teapot though unusual for the period–some have speculated that the spout was a later replacement, but metal analysis suggests it is probably original. The coat of arms are a slightly later replacement, as faint traces of an earlier engraving can be seen. The extant arms likely belonged to a north Welsh family, possibly Edwards or Trevor.

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Welcome to retro and vintage technology!

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Upon joining Lemmy I noticed there was no similar community here yet, so I created one.

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"Hey Dad, I want a calculator for Christmas!" The good old days of 1986, when even calculators were featured in ads

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1981 asbestos ad

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Original post by @eah@programming.dev was removed for wrong community.

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Meat, August 1946

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From LIFE Magazine, August, 1946

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Magnavox Drum Table (1971)

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An ad selling radium hand cleaner, printed in The Salem News, Ohio (1909)

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"What The Heck Is Electronic Mail?" (Honeywell Ad, 1980s)

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ＦＵＴＵＲＥ 🤖

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Found a great link for exploring retro aesthetics. Here’s cassette futurism:

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Just a totally normal ad from 1971

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/21829012

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666 Gives"Super" Relief

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From The Progressive Farmer, November 1958

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Logo- Language Of The 80s, Byte Magazine Volume 7, Number 4, April 1982

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Black Tulip face powder - The_Australian_Womens_Weekly_18_04_1936 - 1936

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https://archive.org/details/The_Australian_Womens_Weekly_18_04_1936/

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[August 1952] Chrysler Air Raid Siren

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Behold, the loudest siren ever built! Built between 1942 and 1957, Chrysler and Bell Laboratories worked together to create a siren that could outdo everything else. Boasting a deafening sound output of 138 decibels at 100 feet, a single Chrysler could fill the role of tens or even hundreds of smaller sirens. Back in WW2 and the Cold War, expense was secondary to making sure everyone could hear the warning.

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Ad for the 1893 Lancaster Watch Camera

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custom vehicle manufactured for an expedition to explore the Belgium Congo in 1938; for when you wanna explore the jungle but can't possibly part with the amenities of your penthouse

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If you want to read more: https://www.autoevolution.com/news/the-1938-jungle-yacht-was-explorer-gattis-way-of-glamping-in-the-african-jungle-179039.html

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Gateway Advertisement, Byte Magazine, Volume 13, Number 11, Fall 1988

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Osborne 1 Advertisement, BYTE Magazine, Volume 6, Number 5, May 1981

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Pre-war first grade tires (1943)

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NEWEST AND FINEST TV RECORDER

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This was a 2” video tape system, for TV stations to record and then later show content, which was supposed to be as crisp and clear and direct camera-to-broadcast, without any quality loss.

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Traffic boners are on the way out!, October 2, 1939

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From LIFE Magazine

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How to buy jeans: Brooke Shields for American Express, 1980s

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Colt: Isn't it Time You Gave Yourself a Christmas Gift - 1939

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Windows 3.1 Commercial

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For only $59.88 you can play Pong. On your TV! Yesteryear was awesome that way

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Hey, what if ya have to clean those darn floppy drive heads too often? Well, here's a solution:

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Ahhh, the '70s! When clothes were, well, like this

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1978 Dodge Omni ad

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Ain’t gonna lie, I think this car looks pretty awesome!

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Lovely, Lovely Jewelite, LIFE Magazine, August 1946

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Scott Paper Co, Cottonelle, 1982

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"New International Delivery Trucks," International Trucks, June 1939

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LIFE Magazine, June 19, 1939

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"Enjoy these delicious WORLD'S FAIR DONUTS at home today!", Mayflower Downyflake, June 1939

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From LIFE Magazine, June 19, 1939

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"Running improves my figure?", Jantzen Swim Suits, June 1939

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From LIFE Magazine, June 19, 1939, by famous pinup artist George Petty

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"So you're a movie star now, Cousin Zeke!", Ten High, June 1939

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From LIFE Magazine, June 19, 1939

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Fizzies - Good housekeeping magazine - 1962

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