#digitalarcheology — Public Fediverse posts

🚀 Oh, joy, another nostalgic rant about #Y2K from a self-proclaimed digital archeologist who thinks old photos from the dotcom era are groundbreaking! 🙄 Prepare your eyeballs for an avalanche of blurry low-res images and tales of translucent plastic that nobody asked for. 🖼️✨
https://blog.gingerbeardman.com/2026/08/06/lets-all-meet-up-in-the-y2k/ #Nostalgia #DigitalArcheology #DotcomEra #BlurryImages #TechRants #HackerNews #ngated

Oh, bless the digital archeologists for finally unearthing "Swamp Castle" 🏰—the last dinosaur 🦖 to roam Windows 7 land. Now, prepare your tearful goodbyes 👋 to an OS that just won't die, because apparently, roller coasters need version numbers too. 🎢💾
https://openrct2.io/blog/2026/05/openrct2-v0.5.1-released #digitalarcheology #Windows7 #nostalgia #OShistory #goodbyeOS #rollercoaster #HackerNews #ngated

Listen up, tech-heads! 🖥️ The article hilariously dives into the "cutting-edge" world of benchmark hacking with the enthusiasm of a soggy towel. 😴 Spoiler: It's mostly about digging through your old git commits and scraping GitHub like a digital archeologist. 🦖 #Innovation?
https://poolside.ai/blog/through-the-looking-glass #technews #benchmarkhacking #gitcommits #digitalarcheology #innovation #HackerNews #ngated

👾 Ah, behold, the 21st-century digital archeologists! 🕵️‍♂️ They've reconstructed the source code of Commander Keen 1-3, because apparently, that's the pinnacle of human achievement in 2023. 🏆 Let's gather 'round and marvel at the relentless pursuit of the utterly irrelevant! 🚀
https://pckf.com/viewtopic.php?t=18248 #digitalarcheology #CommanderKeen #sourcecode #retrogaming #technews #humanachievement #HackerNews #ngated

Feeling pretty proud. I helped solve a 150 year old maritime mystery today. #scuba #wreck #digitalArcheology

Dom Robinson from Deep Wreck Divers posted pictures of some plates he recovered from a 100m deep wreck last year. The plates had a clear company name, but he had come up empty during his searches.

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This means my #retroComputing project is now turning more into #digitalArcheology, and I'm more determined to see how far I can go with it.

I've also realized that the archive copies of much of the technical writing that I did in a former life is going to need to be properly archived before it turns to dust or bit rots. (2/2)

Ah, the digital archeology site for #CP/M listings. ⚰️ Let's all gather 'round to marvel at the ancient #relics of yesteryear's tech, archived like sacred texts on the modern marvel known as the Apache server. 🖥️ Because clearly, our future depends on knowing the file size of CPM2.2 from June 2025. 📜✨
http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/digitalResearch/CPM_Listings/ #digitalarcheology #techhistory #ApacheServer #retrocomputing #HackerNews #ngated

Der Cursor blinkt, mein ♥️ auch. Vintage Liebe Deluxe mit dem PET-Emulator.

https://www.masswerk.at/pet/

Danke Norbert Landsteiner von Masswerk.

#CommodorePET #BASIC #EmulatorLove #POKEmeBaby #ReadyToRun #VintageVibes #DigitalArcheology #masswerk

@kaischi sagt, das ist bestimmt die flüssigste Praline der Welt. 😇 Das passt schon. 🍻 #CAAde #CAAde2024 #N4OgoesCAAde2024 #DigitaleArchäologie #digitalarcheology

...Und manchmal haben wir auch Spaß 🥳😎🤪 #CAAde #CAAde2024 #N4OgoesCAAde2024 #nfdirocks #DigitaleArchäologie #digitalarcheology

Der 1. Tag der #CAAde #CAAde2024 geht zu Ende und die Köpfe rauchen über die Ausrichtung, um neue Mitglieder zu erreichen und social media ausgiebiger zu nutzen. #digitalarcheology #DigitaleArchäologie @scschmidt @fthierygeo @kaischi @berenike

Retrieving some old files for the first time in over 35 years. Hidden in here there are some doodles/sprites I made in 1987 and a school magazine I wrote with my classmates a few years later.
I'm using a custom XUM1541 and OpenCBM.

#Commodore64 #DigitalArcheology

We have not always been the best at taking care of our digital demoscene heritage, and thus many things we know to exist are simply lost to time.

However, a crew of archeologists do their best to make sure as much old material as possible is preserved.

@Dozer and @menacespb will be present to help preserve material, accept collections as donations or we make a deal so you can get the material back.

We have years of experience salvaging material from floppy disks, hard disks, CDs and DVDs, backup tapes, recently cassette tapes and all manner of weird and wonderful media. Come talk to us about getting your old stuff digitized for the future.

SOMEONE is sitting on those lost treasures and don't even know it. Let's have a look.

#CopyThatFloppy #Archiving #DigitalArcheology #Demoscene

Been stumbling around the attic (finding things I forgot I had) and re-discovered some old mobile phones: A Panasonic G520 (which I misremembered as a Nokia) - originally my father's 'work' phone c1998. Also, an NEC e616 which was an early 3G phone c2003.

#3g #horror #oldman #cellphone #cellphones #mobilephone #mobilephones #Panasonic #NEC #panasonicg520 #nece616 #digitalarcheology #ancienthistory #oldtech #oldtechnology

I always wondered if music of serpent handling folks in Appalachia was published on vinyl. Apparently, there are at least three records from the guy who founded the Full Gospel Tabernacle in Jesus Name Church in Middlesborro, KY. All that I tired to put together in this article. (Unfortunately, I suck at writing)

https://folk-visions.com/serpent-handling/connecting-dots-the-music-of-serpent-handlers-the-coots-duo-and-the-coots-duet/

PS: The Alabama Astronauts is a podcast solely about this topic.

#gospel #digitalArcheology

Doing some #DigitalArcheology and combining various source backups into a Git repo of old code. Tonight's episode, my (only slightly obsolete) tool for posting FidoNews in #FidoNet echomail:
https://github.com/nafmo/azure-newsprep