Rant/Top tip: Your local business isn't JUST failing because amazon undercuts you.
It's also because people (like me) who want to spend money at a local business, looked up your hours and location on your website, planned a morning around coming by, drove over to find your storefront papered over with a printed note saying you'd moved to the other side of town – a fact not reflected on your website, or Google Maps. 😑
Inspired by @mac84tv 's recent adventures with the classic 1999 Compaq (in all its original be-stickered glory), I decided to answer the question literally no one asked: What if t-shirts advertised themselves like late-90s PCs? 🤔
If like me, you were a child of the '90s, you might remember "ReBoot" – a pioneering 3D animated kids series created by Vancouver's own Mainframe Entertainment.
These documentarians have gotten a hold of the original, uncompressed digital masters. The problem is, they're in the D-1 format.
If anyone in the #retrotech community has access to a Bosch BTS D1, or a comparable D1 player/decoder, I urge you to reach out to @ReBootReWind (on Twitter) to help preserve #ReBoot!
Hi folks – My stuff is on Threadless too, but I'm sometimes bad at keeping my shop up to date because the designs interface can be very slow.
Well, I've added/updated designs in the shop and Threadless is having their Memorial Day sale. If you like my stuff but have hesitated because of pricing (or you don't like TeePublic), this might be an opportunity for you. #tshirts#badcaps
@freehours9 It's... fine? 😅 The print quality is generally quite solid – durable, decent colour-matching. The difficulty I find is using their design system, which is super sluggish and sometimes just times out.
I haven't used Cotton Bureau before so I don't have basis for comparison.
Another great retro find from clearing out our defunct office. I have no idea how it ended up at work, but I got this – The NCSA Mosaic Handbook (for the Macintosh) as a starry-eyed teen way back in 1994 (the year it was published).
Mosaic was an early web browser whose code became that basis for the original Internet Explorer. Before I even had an internet connection, this classic O'Reilly book taught me how to make HTML pages, and the protocol basics of HTTP. #RetroComputing#RetroInternet