#citizenarchives — Public Fediverse posts

BoingBoing: A retired geneticist built an online museum of electrical plugs. “A man with the delightful name of Oof Oud spent his career studying DNA and chromosomes at the University of Amsterdam. Then he retired and built the Museum of Plugs and Sockets — a sprawling website cataloging over a thousand electrical plugs and sockets from more than 25 countries.”

BoingBoing: A retired geneticist built an online museum of electrical plugs. “A man with the delightful name of Oof Oud spent his career studying DNA and chromosomes at the University of Amsterdam. Then he retired and built the Museum of Plugs and Sockets — a sprawling website cataloging over a thousand electrical plugs and sockets from more than 25 countries.”

What’s On Netflix: Stranger Things Radio Station ‘WSQK: The Squawk’ Archived by Fan After Going Offline . “Missed out on the live broadcast from Hawkins? A dedicated fan has archived the entire run of the Stranger Things Season 5 promotional radio station, WSQK, ensuring the 80s tunes and some hidden lore updates live on.”

What’s On Netflix: Stranger Things Radio Station ‘WSQK: The Squawk’ Archived by Fan After Going Offline . “Missed out on the live broadcast from Hawkins? A dedicated fan has archived the entire run of the Stranger Things Season 5 promotional radio station, WSQK, ensuring the 80s tunes and some hidden lore updates live on.”

St. Louis Magazine: Moonlighting librarians save the RFT’s online archive from its post-porn purge. “A newly available digital archive that encompasses much of the recent history of the Riverfront Times went live yesterday. It is the brainchild of Joshua Lawrence and Jaclyn Crow, two St. Louisans with a passion for local history…. The database currently has about 2,000 articles from the […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/12/06/st-louis-magazine-moonlighting-librarians-save-the-rfts-online-archive-from-its-post-porn-purge/

St. Louis Magazine: Moonlighting librarians save the RFT’s online archive from its post-porn purge. “A newly available digital archive that encompasses much of the recent history of the Riverfront Times went live yesterday. It is the brainchild of Joshua Lawrence and Jaclyn Crow, two St. Louisans with a passion for local history…. The database currently has about 2,000 articles from the […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/12/06/st-louis-magazine-moonlighting-librarians-save-the-rfts-online-archive-from-its-post-porn-purge/

Tom’s Hardware: Gigantic VHS videotape hoard of thousands of videos stored in McDonald’s boxes being given away for free — Internet Archive looks set to claim the tapes of U.S. news output spanning 2004-09. “If you would like to rehome thousands of old VHS videotapes, there’s an incredible hoard of these nostalgic artifacts from the days of analog TV, stored carefully in McDonald’s boxes, […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/11/18/toms-hardware-gigantic-vhs-videotape-hoard-of-thousands-of-videos-stored-in-mcdonalds-boxes-being-given-away-for-free-internet-archive-looks-set-to-claim-the-tapes-of-u-s-news-output-s/

Tom’s Hardware: Gigantic VHS videotape hoard of thousands of videos stored in McDonald’s boxes being given away for free — Internet Archive looks set to claim the tapes of U.S. news output spanning 2004-09. “If you would like to rehome thousands of old VHS videotapes, there’s an incredible hoard of these nostalgic artifacts from the days of analog TV, stored carefully in McDonald’s boxes, […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/11/18/toms-hardware-gigantic-vhs-videotape-hoard-of-thousands-of-videos-stored-in-mcdonalds-boxes-being-given-away-for-free-internet-archive-looks-set-to-claim-the-tapes-of-u-s-news-output-s/

The Standard (Hong Kong): Hong Kong activist investor David Webb to end Webb-site database in October . “In a post on his website, Webb said automated data collection would continue ‘as long as the code doesn’t break,’ and he will continue to put weekly dumps of the entire database and any software updates in the Webb-site Repository on Google Drive. He encouraged others to take forward parts […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/10/15/the-standard-hong-kong-activist-investor-david-webb-to-end-webb-site-database-in-october/

The Standard (Hong Kong): Hong Kong activist investor David Webb to end Webb-site database in October . “In a post on his website, Webb said automated data collection would continue ‘as long as the code doesn’t break,’ and he will continue to put weekly dumps of the entire database and any software updates in the Webb-site Repository on Google Drive. He encouraged others to take forward parts […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/10/15/the-standard-hong-kong-activist-investor-david-webb-to-end-webb-site-database-in-october/

Associated Press: Hair museum filled with century-old mementos closes its doors, scattering contents around the nation. “For about 30 years, this hair art collection in the Kansas City suburb of Independence attracted an eclectic group of gawkers that included the likes of heavy metal legend Ozzy Osbourne. But the museum’s namesake, Leila Cohoon, died last November at the age of 92. Now her […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/10/12/associated-press-hair-museum-filled-with-century-old-mementos-closes-its-doors-scattering-contents-around-the-nation/

Vulture: The List Keepers. “Over the years, people in the middle of the crisis started keeping their own lists of the lost — those records were small personal acts of grief and tribute. Giving the dressers, the hairstylists, the assistant stage managers, the junior choreographers, the chorus boys, the makeup artists, the rehearsal pianists, the accountants, and the pit musicians who died […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/04/15/vulture-the-list-keepers/

Vulture: The List Keepers. “Over the years, people in the middle of the crisis started keeping their own lists of the lost — those records were small personal acts of grief and tribute. Giving the dressers, the hairstylists, the assistant stage managers, the junior choreographers, the chorus boys, the makeup artists, the rehearsal pianists, the accountants, and the pit musicians who died […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/04/15/vulture-the-list-keepers/