I have every boxed Infocom game with the feelies, but not this edition or the Starcross saucer. My white whales!

psst @aresluna.org

I love this so much.

Illustration of Milo, his dog friend Tock, and a despondent King Azaz from the Phantom Tollbooth

such a great book, here's a higher resolution version of Jules Feiffer's illo

Wikipedia history of Hard Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens, which went through 10 different names in 20 years

Hard Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens has changed its name on average every two years or so

My favorite pastime is painfully walking family members through installing Chrome Remote Desktop over the phone so I can figure out why their email doesn't work from 1,000 miles away.

The bottom three with LaserWriter II, HyperCard, and ImageWriter II in places 48-50

HyperCard is absurdly underrated

Photo of the I Heart Kabul sign at the Kabul airport with the heart symbol removed by the Taliban, reading just "I Kabul". The heart was later added back.

🏆

Exterior of the Game Dude location, a one story brick building and parking lot

thanks for the tip

Paramore: This Is Why [OFFICIAL VIDEO] YouTube video by Paramore

Happy (belated) bday! I was literally just singing this to myself when I saw your post. youtu.be/xIYJ7VaSxYY

Photo of a display at SXSW 2007 showing live tweets from attendees. Text at the bottom reads, "What are you doing? Text JOIN SXSW to 40404"

Very well-documented on Flickr! flickr.com/photos/mtrak... Many more here: flickr.com/search/?text...

When I used it while running around at SXSW 2007, I typed my tweets with T9 texting on my Razr, and posted using the SMS gateway.

bsky.app/profile/eod....

There's a reason we all moved! It was great... for a while. But we traded all our autonomy and independence for convenience and a wider audience.

Facebook opened to everyone in September of that year, Google bought YouTube in November, Steve Jobs announced the first iPhone in January 2007. Twitter blew up at SXSW in March and iPhone came out in June, the beginning of the end for the dominant open social web.

Ze Frank's The Show was self-hosted QuickTime videos on a blog with comments and an RSS feed. A community forum, wiki, and series of interactive web pages tied it all together. Social media was a bunch of blogs linking to each other.

Zefrank 031706877 YouTube video by ze frank

Also 20 years ago this week, on March 17, 2006, Ze Frank posted the first episode of The Show. youtu.be/VxyiRMcNIVo

Screenshot of Jack Dorsey's first tweet: "just setting up my twttr" on March 21, 2006 at 12:50pm PT

20 years ago today.

zoomed-in section of Temu screenshot with a tiny bit of whitespace in the cramped busy layout

surprising amount of whitespace under the star review, they should fill it with some outlined badges that all look the same

It still makes me laugh out loud.

Aaron Draplin cringing away from a pack of purple XOXO Field Notes. His caption reads, "Purple Field Notes? Yeah, Purple Field Notes. Hell fuckin' freezes over. Eating my words, hourly, forever."

is this commemorating the Dave Matthews Band bus incident

Love your game! I'm in a Discord where a bunch of us share our scores every morning! I miss the Check feature!

From the neilyoung community on Reddit: Neil Young! 1989! SNL! Explore this post and more from the neilyoung community

This Neil Young performance of "Rocking in the Free World" from 1989 is electric. www.reddit.com/r/neilyoung/...

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For the last two weeks, a Sicilian Redditor named ItalianSausage2023 has been digitizing classic musical SNL performances from their own VHS collection. The audio and video quality's great, better than most copies of these recordings online—if they exist at all. www.reddit.com/user/Italian...

Nine of his 14 (!) studio albums since When I Was Cruel have 4.0+ reviews (out of 5) from All Music Guide's critics. www.allmusic.com/artist/elvis...

I'd say Elvis Costello. Now in his 70s, he's still putting out great critically-loved albums, still sounds fantastic live, and continues to try new things while incorporating his early and mid-career work into his repertoire.

YouTube comment that reads: "Anyone in 2020, Anyone in 2021, Anyone in 2022" etc through to 2026, with a crying face and praying hands emoji

YouTube comment that says, "Anyone in Shut Up 2026 BRO" with a skull emoji

YouTube's tendency to boost those comments has led to a backlash

You absolutely have to do this. People put way too much faith in AI detection, and they're so bad.