Here’s one from a few days ago: Museum of Business History and Technology, in a non-descript building in a non-descript state of Delaware.
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(This isn’t me throwing shade at Delaware. I just feel bad… I actually initially confused your state with Rhode Island. :·/ )
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To book an appointment, I had to… email someone who once made a video about it, and put it on YouTube. They connected me with the owner.
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Then I had to wake up at 5am – still jetlagged from West Coast – and drive 2+ hours in the rain. But it was worth it.
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This museum has tons of artifacts of offices of yore: typewriters, calculators, cash registers, copiers, pencil sharpeners…pic.twitter.com/tFzRU8LTEB
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Where do we start… How about this old copier which was messy as hell, and where drying was a huge part of the process?pic.twitter.com/BZmWsIlwVN
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Eventually, in 1959, Xerox made a plain-paper copier and with it, basically, ALL THE MONEY IN THE WORLD.pic.twitter.com/kThQyJuUXa
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I love the simplicity of the UI (compared to modern nuclear plant-like ones), and check out that rubberized flap for the original page!pic.twitter.com/LErGlxfWUc
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(It was called Xerox 914 because it could handle 9"×14" paper.) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xerox_914
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Phones used to be considered so ugly that there were devices to hide them in “artistic” enclosures. Or, THIS IS YOUR IPHONE CASE’S GRANDPA.pic.twitter.com/UQDZ2H3Zj5
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…although from the perspective of today, the aesthetics of the early phone industry are not awful at all.pic.twitter.com/c4jgszfAME
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Although phones are so old, even the vintage rotary phone had a predecessor – an *older* rotary phone!pic.twitter.com/6U5uEOTpAN
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One thing phones couldn’t help you with back then… “Hey Siri, how many ounces in 3 pounds?”pic.twitter.com/I16GjsQuyS
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