Fragments
Digital folklore, cursed commercials, lost broadcasts, robot bands, and other things that show up when the rest of the world is asleep.
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A Woman Kisses A Reflective Robot Goodnight In NYIT’s ‘Interface’
In 1984, NYIT’s Computer Graphics Lab chose to demo reflection mapping with a 14-second scene between a human woman and…
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Two Ghost Stories Recorded On A Brown Wax Cylinder
Here’s a wax cylinder recording circa 1908, straight from the UCSB Cylinder Audio Archive (and shared on YouTube by The…
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Sine-Wave Speech Sounds Like Nonsense…Until It Doesn’t
This stuff makes my head hurt. Sine-Wave speech or synthesis was first developed in the 1970s by Philip Rubin at…
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The Third Place: David Lynch’s Surreal PS2 Ad
Welcome to the Third Place. Did you know David Lynch directed a commercial for PlayStation back in the year 2000?…
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3D Face Animations From 1974 Are A Touch Unsettling
Well that’s a bit haunting. 1974 was apparently a time of strange floating heads reciting poetry, but back then this…
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Surreal Footage of the Macy’s Christmas Parade, 1927
From the depths of the University of South Carolina’s digital library comes this rip in spacetime, showing us footage of…
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A Furby Prepared With Ground Turkey And Duck Sauce, 2006
Do you ever go out for Black Friday? If you had a time machine, you could jet back to 1998…
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Strange Inventions: The Anti-Earthquake Bed
Here’s a video of an anti-earthquake (or seismic safety) bed, a Russian invention from 2015. Its majestic 3D recreations let…
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When Frogs Flew In 1997
The year is 1997. The first DVD players have just released in the U.S., Tamagotchis are flying off store shelves,…
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Looking Back: Canadian Museum Attempts To Unravel 1941’s ‘Time Traveling Hipster’
A long, long time ago, the Internet was ablaze with viral images of would-be time travelers and out-of-place artifacts. Do…