Better than "the 1900s"

I was on the phone with my father back in Cleveland last week and he was standing outside for some of it. I could hear the crickets through the phone they were so loud. Granted the phone was also tied into his hearing aid. I don't miss the noise, but I do miss the lightning bugs.

there was far too much use of licensed music. I know that's what kept it off streaming for a long time

some of it had to do with music rights

Enceladus is my favorite candidate for life in the solar system

There's also a Boeing company tape from 1997 in there.

The Algorithm only cares that you are engaging. It does not care how. This is honestly one of the ways the Internet is eating itself.

There's one single Polaroid that looks like it may never have been used. No label on it and all of the labels are still unpeeled in the case with the tape.

definitely

The buy nothing post only showed one box. Imagine my surprise to see eight boxes when I arrived.

I'm relatively certain I have the original airing of Twin Peaks in this haul.

I choose a third option which admittedly uses VLC and TinyMediaManager as dependencies and doesn't have the ability to play specific content on demand yet and is also a complicated setup and a shameless plug for something I built myself that pretends to be broadcast TV. But it has a bee for a logo.

Orthodontiary remains the most medieval of all medical practices.

The desire to connect and share information on common interests is still a core part of what draws people together in online spaces in spite of algorithms, bots, AI or walled gardens.

People today do not understand how much neo-nazi spam was out there on IRC back in the day. Banning them could be like whack-a-mole sometimes. Those people were (not so) quietly recruiting and communicating with each other online long before the average person knew more than AOL keywords.

Our after-school Quake 1 LAN parties in the school computer lab ended after Columbine thanks to that.