Five things that survive because somebody put in far more work than the job required. A facade carved into wet render in 1584 and still on the street in Nice, Australia’s first computer running again in a browser tab, a 1990 dungeon crawl rebuilt byte by byte, fifty states bound into six kilos of photographs, and a shop whose owner lists his job as pencil stamper and sidewalk sweeper.
Two figures cut into wet mortar in 1584, each holding a gourd
→ atlasobscura.com
Australia's first computer, running again in a browser tab
→ grahame.dev
Apogee's 1990 dungeon crawl, rebuilt byte-for-byte from the original source
→ taler.pl
Six kilos, 792 pages, and an anniversary stamped on the jacket but nowhere in the title
→ taschen.com
A graphic designer's second act, in pencils, on South Broadway
→ busmansholiday.shop