Archive of technology, entertainment and everyday life
The Museo da Conserva’s #ComidaViejuna campaign revisits home recipe books in its collection as records of habits, aesthetics and cultural memory—not merely as cooking instructions.
Open storyConsoles did not follow a single path. The available sources let us connect Mexican clones of the 1970s and 1980s, the North American crisis of 1983, and the technical competition between 16-bit systems—without conflating distinct contexts or treating generations as a universal scale.
Open storyPicture stickers moved from accompanying consumer goods to forming organized album collections. Available sources mark an important shift in Panini’s history between its Italian collection of 1961 and the international 1970 World Cup album, and also document the circulation of stickers and albums in Spain.
Open storyA guide to reading catalogues, educational materials and studies of everyday life with attention to what they actually document, what questions they allow us to ask, and where their limits lie.
Open storyDocumentation makes it possible to study restoration as work, institutional memory, and a source of knowledge. The Prado’s published history points to a significant shift: from lists to systematic reports for individual works, alongside wider communication about restoration.
Open storyIntroduced in August 1981, the IBM 5150 did not single-handedly inaugurate personal computing. Its significance is clearer when we look at how its architecture and the use of MS-DOS helped compatible systems emerge and broadened the reach of the PC.
Open storyA careful reading of several Spanish photographic collections reveals the breadth of their dates, subjects and formats—and the limits of what can be concluded from their public descriptions.
Open storyA cautious account of what the available sources allow us to say about early museum content distributed online: from texts and images offered via FTP in 1992 to the later digital transformation of archives, collections and institutional communication.
Open storyA film can be understood as an artwork, a document and a material object. Drawing on studies of film heritage and film archive collections, this article explores how those perspectives complement one another—and why preservation also involves documentation and access.
Open storyVirtual museums promise more than preserving names and screenshots: they can offer access to software in operation. We examine what the sources claim about the Virtual OS Museum, WinWorld and the Internet Archive’s Historical Software Collection—and the limits readers should keep in mind.
Open storyDuring the 1970s and 1980s, adult comic magazines became a visible presence at Spanish newsstands. Their growth, their room for emerging artists and their later decline offer a way to examine changing formats and distribution channels in comics.
Open storyIn 1971, Computer Space brought a version of Spacewar! to the coin-operated arcade format. Sources present it as an early milestone, while differing over whether it was truly the first commercial game of its kind.
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