Archiving TV... the old fashion way

By Alexander Rose @zander

May 6, 02008

This is a wonderful find by “America Found: A Snapshot History” blog. It is someone’s snap shots they took of their TV as one of the Apollo missions took place. There is something quaint and lovely about taking pictures of your television to document an important moment. Pre VCR, pre DVD, pre TiVo but still captures the essence of the broadcast.

Archives Art

More from Archives —

The Rosetta Project

A Lunar Library

As part of Odysseus’ moonfall, Long Now’s work, and the linguistic heritage of all of humanity, will be preserved on the lunar surface.

By Jacob Kuppermann

Environment

To Save It, Eat It

Why gene banks aren’t enough to save the world’s food

By Taras Grescoe

Long-term Thinking

What We Don't Know About World Population History

By Jacob Kuppermann

Long-term Thinking

The Lasting Whole Earth Catalog

By Jacob Kuppermann

Digital Dark Age

Shining a Light on the Digital Dark Age

By Adrienne Bernhard

Archives

The First Digital Nation

By Lilian Bernhardt

Explore over two decades of long-term thinking

Concepts

Projects

Disciplines

Year

What is the long now?

The Long Now Foundation is a nonprofit established in 01996 to foster long-term thinking. Our work encourages imagination at the timescale of civilization — the next and last 10,000 years — a timespan we call the long now.