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I need a 'bain de vapor total' right now.

Will he ever be gone for good?

I'd love to sleep, I mean sit, in one of these.

Season's greetings, earthlings.

New York almost 50 years ago (ouch).

Cool pics from the time when rollerskating got big.

No smartphones, no notifications, no worries. Just rollerskating on Venice Beach... Thanks to newly installed bike paths, the rise of disco music and the invention of the polyurethane wheel, rollerskating on the street became viable by the 1970s. The summer of '76 was when outdoor roller skate rentals were introduced for the first time. By the end of the '70s,...

You thought portable music came with the Sony Walkman and was popularized by iPods? No way. Incredible as it may sound today, hipsters were able to jam to their favorite tunes on-the-go as soon as the 1920s, thanks to the Mikiphone, a pocket-sized phonograph. The pocket phonograph was designed by Miklós Vadász, a Hungarian designer who it was named after. He...

In the beginning there was... Well, there were a lot of things already.

Would love to see the 1999 and 2018 versions of this. But Silicon Valley was quite big even back then. (Click image to enlarge). UPDATE: Lars JJ heard my wish and posted the 2018 version of the map in the Vintage Computer Club we are both part of:

The latest fashion of the past 200 years.

Compiled using a number of historic fashion plates, this timeline showcases the predominant trends in women's fashion between 1784-1970, that is, nearly 200 years of women's fashion history.