Archive of technology, entertainment and everyday life
Video-game preservation encompasses hardware, software, documents, advertising, magazines, audiovisual materials and the cultural conditions of use. Drawing on Spanish initiatives and academic debates, this article defines what can be verified about that work and why a playable copy does not exhaust a game’s history.
Open storyA documented, deliberately limited reading of several milestones attributed to CES: from the 1971 videocassette recorder and computers’ 1979 appearance to plasma, OLED and 3D displays in the 2000s.
Open storyThe creation of Mexico City’s Museum Archive of Photography, published on 6 December 2006, offers a way to view photography not merely as an image, but also as a document, a collection, a physical format and institutional memory.
Open storyA chronological reading, based on the available sources, of the changes in context, access and preservation surrounding Spanish television from the 1970s to 2009. It separates documented material from interpretation and avoids treating nostalgia as historical proof.
Open storyA critical timeline of documented milestones between 1970 and 1975: new large-capacity motorcycles, the launch of the Toyota Celica and Carina, growing attention to safety, and the arrival of the first Honda Gold Wing. Rather than a total history of motoring, it is a cautious reading of technical and cultural changes visible in the available sources.
Open storyFrom ARPA and ARPANET to TCP/IP, the Web, and the institutional changes of 2009: a reading of the available milestones that separates documented chronology, source attributions, and still-open gaps.
Open storyTwo sources in the supplied evidence date the Walkman-related change differently. This piece separates those claims and treats July 1979 as the explicit dating for Sony’s presentation.
Open storyA guide to understanding why cameras, videotape machines, media, broadcasts and documentation make up a single public memory, drawing on documented cases and principles from Spain and Latin America.
Open storyThe Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive’s Internet presence in 1994 offers a way into a central question of the early Internet: preserving a digital experience is not merely a matter of saving files. It also requires recording its relationship to the institution, its collections, its uses and its limits.
Open storyCollections in Turin, Torrejón de Ardoz and Berlin show that preserving vehicles is not merely about assembling machines: it also means safeguarding trades, documents, design and the social uses of mobility.
Open storyThe Tolosa museum traces chocolate through tools, chocolate pots and a historic workshop. Its collection shows how a food can also become technical, domestic and cultural heritage.
Open storyLaunched by IBM in mid-August 1981, the IBM PC 5150 entered an already active personal-computing market. Its importance does not lie in being the first personal computer, but in the expansion of an architecture that other manufacturers could adopt and that helped establish the PC as an industry reference.
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