Right, straight into the good stuff found on YouTube this week:
And around the rest of the web:
- Thanks to Lou for sending over this Japanese collection of novelty calculators. For a moment I thought the "sliding puzzle" one might actually be a real working sliding puzzle where each tile was a calculator button, but no, the puzzle just changes the colours, the
buttons don't move!
- Phil Gyford recalls his first months in cyberspace, which will likely produce either nostalgia, incredulity, or confusion depending on your age and level of tech-savviness.
- And from a very different era of historical technology: restoring the first recording of computer music. The restored recording is on SoundCloud, but I'd recommend reading the whole piece for the details on how they worked out the pitch it should be played at -- because it was recorded at a slightly wrong speed!
And finally: a couple of weeks ago, I linked to 90s Europop on a street organ. Well, here's an explanation of how that organ works!
All the best,
— Tom
