A playable ELIZA, Robert Johnson from rare test pressings, a scribe’s palette still smudged with pigment, old insurance maps laid over today’s streets. Each was sitting in an archive until somebody set it back in front of us.
A century-old Sanborn insurance map, snapped onto today's street grid
→ mapsnap.org
Restored amateur footage from months before the Wall's collapse
→ openculture.com
Nick Dellow's digitization of rare 1936-37 Robert Johnson test pressings
→ openculture.com
Two melodies at once, written down around 900 AD
→ openculture.com
Hold a conversation with a faithful recreation of the 1966 chatbot
→ sites.google.com
The first chatbot's rediscovered 1966 source code, back in print
→ mitpress.mit.edu
A medieval diagram of a man suffering every injury at once
→ publicdomainreview.org
A scribe's palette at the Met, still smudged with its original pigments
→ openculture.com