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#y2k

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DesertFOX

Puuh, eines meiner größten Scan-Projekte nähert sich nach über einem Jahr Arbeit nun unmittelbar der Fertigstellung. Stand heute Nacht sind nur noch ein paar wenige Seiten zu restaurieren für das große, fast 700 Seiten starke, deutsche Handbuch von IBM's PC-DOS 2000.

#RetroComputing#DOSGaming#IBM
Miguel Afonso Caetano

"In the book Fake Work: How I Began to Suspect Capitalism Is a Joke, Leigh Claire La Berge reflects on her time at a management-consulting firm in the waning days of the 1990s to explain her gradual realization that there was something off not just about her own job but about capitalism as a whole. The work that La Berge was engaged in at the murkily named “Conglomerate,” was tangentially related to what is commonly referred to as Y2K, though La Berge’s work at the Conglomerate was associated with documentation and legal protection, as opposed to technical remediation. As the book’s title makes clear, the work at the firm seemed largely “fake” to her, a sentiment which she in turn repeatedly projects onto the entirety of Y2K which the book repeatedly describes as a “fake crisis.” Though couched in a historical moment, Fake Work does not present itself as a history, or confine itself to a single genre, and is instead, as La Berge describes it, “a Marxist-inflected, queer, auto-theoretical work memoir” (206) in which La Berge moves between recounting office stories, commenting on Marx, and describing how her time at the Conglomerate eventually led her to her understanding and appreciation of Marx.

Fake Work provides a theoretically rich and often amusing picture of the banalities and absurdities of certain types of work. And those who have labored in such environments are likely to feel that she gets a lot right in her descriptions of those sorts of workplaces. Unfortunately, almost everything that Fake Work has to say about Y2K is either sorely lacking in historical and technical context, or is simply wrong.

In fairness, Fake Work isn’t really about Y2K. It’s about capitalism. But the book’s thoughtful and amusing critiques of capitalism are consistently undermined by the way this book misrepresents and oversimplifies Y2K."

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LibrarianShipwreck · If the work seems fake, does that mean the crisis is too? – A Review of Leigh Claire La Berge’s “Fake Work”“There is a general agreement that the Y2K transition went more smoothly than any of us would have imagined. In fact, as noted in the week since the rollover, some people have suggested that Y2K as…
#FakeWork#BullshitJobs#Capitalism
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What a find. This billboard contains a secret 20+ years old time capsule on its back. It is only faintly visible at the back of the billboard that is covered by a group of trees. The ad is mirrored since it was initially displayed facing one of the main boulevards in Varna, Bulgaria.

The Alcatel One Touch 511 came out around 2002. Someone surely has one of those with battery still at 10%.

I miss dumb phones.

#ad#graphicdesign#retrotech
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Kevin Karhan :verified:

@rootcompute a lot of people agree that #WindowsXP is #FrutigerAero as per colour pallete, theme and direction at user-friendlyness.

But I guess that's a debate for #art #historians to conclude.

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Jakob Fel :spinningdisc:

Interesting New Millennium fact:

Dream Theater's live album, "Live Scenes from New York", was released on Sept. 11, 2001.

Coincidentally, the original artwork included a big apple, wrapped in barbed wire and on fire, a NY play on the Sacred Heart imagery they used on their album, Images & Words. In the flames were the Statue of Liberty and the Twin Towers.

After the terror attacks on its release day, the band (wisely) chose to re-release the album with new artwork.

#retro#y2k#music
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Dynn

C'est dingue qu'une petite boite de moins de dix personnes comme The Designers Republic a juste défini la culture Y2K (plus précisément le mouvement Vectorheart), ça me rappelle mon enfance avec tous ces sites tendances quand Flash Player est sorti haha

#design#annees90#y2k
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