use of tech from an age of ubiquity, good manuals and spare parts
unobseleting, resurrecting, keeping alive
communities for making/fixing/maintaining/reminiscing
how some retro tech is rare and highly prized, how some have very few well-maintained examples or lack of preserved knowledge/skill, flooded markets and new interest raising costs, etc
old platforms as unsurveilled or paradoxically less secure, privacy in public
“an article on early filing cabinets written by John Tagg. Tagg’s description of these fixtures as instruments of power, privilege, and control (2011) […] portrayed the cabinet as […] a predecessor of what we now call a digital database. […] I asked myself whether, superseded by the ubiquitous cloud, a bulky, wooden and disconnected cabinet such as this one was not, paradoxically, the safest, most stable, and reliable technology for organizing memory today? A space for regaining autonomy and control over a vulnerable digital legacy in capture culture?” ⤴️