*Hmm, the French-owned "Atari" revival company is releasing new Atari cartridge games. #deadmedia #rerelease

https://atari.com/collections/physical-cartridges

*Nice one with the retrofitted old phone that becomes a poetry recital device. #deadmedia #RaspberryPi #hack #deviceart #poetry

https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/poetry-on-the-line-a-vintage-phone-brought-to-life-with-raspberry-pi/

So, when do all the plastic game consoles become like fax machines and mechanical typewriters #deadmedia

https://kotaku.com/console-wars-are-over-ps5-xbox-forza-switch-2-sony-1851752956

*The Olivetti Programma 101 has a pretty good claim to be "the first desktop computer," but not a lot of people have seen the guts of one #deadmedia

https://www.flickr.com/photos/brucesterling/albums/72177720323496661/

*What... really? Why would I do that for you? #deadmedia

*It seems to me that the true "bitter lesson" here is that all the earlier forms of "AI" are being discarded, forgotten and annihilated. #deadmedia

https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~eunsol/courses/data/bitter_lesson.pdf

"Goodbye, Microsoft Metaverse. Don't expect a funeral as glamorous as your launch. #deadmedia #virtualreality #hype #doom

https://www.theregister.com/2024/10/02/microsoft_hololens_2_dead/

*There is still no such thing as a `'digital archive' #deadmedia

https://www.mixonline.com/business/inside-iron-mountain-its-time-to-talk-about-hard-drives

"This year’s State of the Cloud report serves both as a eulogy for the legacy cloud and a celebration of the current AI Cloud moment." #LegacyCloud #jargon #deadmedia

https://www.bvp.com/atlas/state-of-the-cloud-2024

*Dead chatbots. #deadmedia

*Does anybody still run bots with Markov Chains, RNN, RNN+Markov, and LSTM, or have these bots all been quietly murdered and replaced with LLMs now? #deadmedia #malware

“Chinese-language internet content predating the emergence of the mobile internet has almost entirely disappeared.” #deadmedia

https://chinamediaproject.org/2024/05/27/goldfish-memories/?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

*I had never seen this web page. The details here are wild. #deadmedia #balloonpost

http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/artoct10/al-pigeonpost.html

*Link rot and digital decay report. #deadmedia

"54% of Wikipedia pages contain at least one link that points to a page that no longer exists," etc etc

https://www.pewresearch.org/data-labs/2024/05/17/when-online-content-disappears/

Dead media: found this old Betamax video cassette behind some books on a shelf in my old bedroom back home, looks like some 1980s #DoctorWho taped on it.

Hard to grasp in digital, on-demand era, but being able to record TV to watch later was such a treat back then.

"the old chestnut about the relative merits of pigeon-based vs internet data transfers". #deadmedia #pigeonpot

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/yes-a-pigeon-is-still-faster-than-gigabit-fiber-internet

*Great singers -- AND ACTORS -- can be SEEN, and HEARD, one hundred years from now!" #Edison #Kinetophone #deadmedia #talkies #onehundredtenyears

https://youtu.be/uRqQhUQTaUc?si=88MiJPIT-V_WpFZA

*I wonder if Ais "know" this arcane hacker lore (because it's in the common-crawl), or if they would just hallucinate about it if you asked them. #deadmedia

http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/things-every-hacker-once-knew/

*When was the last time you saw someone carrying a large radio or a tape cassette player #deadmedia