Archive of technology, entertainment and everyday life
The Web began as a way to consult remote files through linked texts. This feature compares that documentary idea, developed at CERN between 1990 and 1991, with the cultural meaning browsing acquired as browsers and search tools became more widespread.
Open storyThe available evidence places Nintendo’s Game Boy launch in 1989 and presents it as a milestone in the consolidation of handheld systems as videogame platforms. This sheet separates that verifiable point from technical and commercial details not documented by the supplied sources.
Open storyA reading of Spanish cinema through the personal, corporate, publicity and documentary holdings preserved by film libraries and specialist archives.
Open storyThe exhibitions and collections cited by Spanish institutions offer a way to approach Madrid fashion from the post-war period to the 1970s without treating a single image as a complete truth. This guide proposes reading garments, accessories, photography and the press together, while distinguishing what can be stated from what must remain open.
Open storyA careful reading of Tōei Dōga, founded in 1956 and now known as Tōei Animation, based on the available evidence about its role in the professionalization of Japanese animation.
Open storyWinWorld and Virtual OS Museum illustrate two complementary ways to approach historic software: the downloadable library and the environment already prepared for emulation. The comparison also shows the documentary, technical and rights-related limits surrounding access to old software.
Open storyFrom stickers attached to consumer goods to albums sold in packets, the Spanish history of sticker collecting explains a leisure practice based on completing, trading and preserving. Panini’s international Mexico 1970 album helps locate a decisive shift: football turned an already widespread practice into a mass phenomenon.
Open storyArchives, reports and protocols make restoration a verifiable and transferable practice. Spanish institutions show how documentation, minimum intervention and preventive conservation support heritage care.
Open storyA reading of museum graphic design as cultural infrastructure: it orders information, guides the visit, connects archive and exhibition, and makes conservation work visible without reducing communication to decoration.
Open storyThe Historical Archive of the Puerto Cristal Museum brings together documents on a Chilean mining camp from the 1960s to the 1990s. Its scope—school, radio, warehouses, laboratory, mine and processing plant—makes it possible to read work and domestic life as parts of the same historical context.
Open storyArchives and museums do not preserve photographs merely as images: they safeguard their supports, descriptions, provenance, and links to the activity that produced them. Drawing on cases from Spain and Mexico City, this article examines why preservation, digitisation, and access are parts of the same cultural responsibility.
Open storySpanish television changed in medium, image, and conditions of access between the 1970s and the 2000s. The available evidence does not amount to a total history, but it does allow an examination of how a broadcast medium also became accessible archival heritage.
Open story
