A very cool blog idea via BoingBoing
"Someone found a huge box of old postcards (1898-1922) in an antique shop. Not all that unusual, but what made them interesting was that they were all sent between members of the same (huge) family. Their finder is now scanning them in, transcribing them, and sticking them online.
It's the best of all possible things: you get to pry into the personal lives of strangers, see cool, old pictures (like a wall covered in skulls and London before the tourists arrived), as well as getting a rare glimpse into the past. As far as I can tell, these people used their postcards like we used email the post was so good the cards (and their reply) could arrive the same day."
Isobel...does anyone name children thusly nowadays? I hope so.
You'll get a giggle out of Xeni Jardin's test run at MSN's free hosted blogging platform, called "Spaces" and MSN's lame censorship heuristics.
Scroll down for an innovation the spammers might foist off on us next: ASCII text & images. Don't think it's possible? Have look at ASCII Babes.
Posted by feste at December 2, 2004 07:33 PM | TrackBack