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0.01 The Incan quipu
0.02 Chaucerian virtual reality
0.03 The Incan quipu
0.04 Kid media: viewmasters, filmstrips, portable projectors, Teddy Ruxpin
0.05 Dead personal computers
0.06 Dead mainframes; early computation devices
0.07 The cyrograph
0.08 The scopitone
0.09 Dead computer languages
01.0 The magic lantern
01.1 The magic lantern
01.2 Clockwork radio
01.3 The magic lantern
01.4 The term "Dead"
01.5 Silent film, the diorama, the panorama
01.6 The magic lantern
01.7 The Comparator; the Rapid Selector
01.8 Bibliography: Magic lanterns, Photography, Optical Toys, Early Cinema
01.9 The Experiential Typewriter
02.0 The magic lantern
02.1 Canada's Telidon Network
02.2 Dead Cryptanalytic Devices of World War II
02.3 The Stenograph
02.4 Canada's Telidon Network; Australia's Viatel and Discovery 40
02.5 The Copy Press, the Hektograph, Edison's Electric Pen, Zuccato's Trypograph, Gestetner's Cyclostyle, Dick-Edison Mimeograph, the Gammeter aka Multigraph, the Varityper, the IBM Selectric
02.6 Military Telegraphy, Balloon Semaphore
02.7 Mirror Telegraphy: The Heliograph, the Helioscope, the Heliostat, the Heliotrope
02.8 Schott's Organum Mathematicum
02.9 The Voder, The Vocoder, the Cyclops Camera, the Memex
03.0 C. X. Thomas de Colmar's Arithmometer
03.1 Toy telegraphy; toy telephony
03.2 Phonographic Dolls
03.3 The IBM Letterwriter
03.4 The Zuse Ziffernrechner; the V1, Z1, Z2, Z3 and Z4 program-controlled electromechanical digital computers; the death of Konrad Zuse
03.5 Loutherbourg's Eidophusikon
03.6 Karakuri; the Japanese puppet theater of Chikamatsu
03.7 Dead memory systems
03.8 the Kinetophone; the "Kinetophone Project"
03.9 Clockwork wall animation -- "living pictures"
04.0 Skytale, the Spartan code-stick
04.1 The pigeon post
04.2 The pigeon post
04.3 The pigeon post
04.4 The pigeon post
04.5 The pigeon post; the balloon post
04.6 The pigeon post
04.7 Vidscan
04.8 Miniature Recording Phonograph, Neophone Records, Poulsen's Telegraphone, the Multiplex Grand Graphophone and the Photophone
04.9 Kids' Dead Media 1929: The Mirrorscope, the Vista Chromoscope, the Rolmonica, the Chromatic Rolmonica
05.0 The Speaking Picture Book; squeeze toys that 'speak'
05.1 SHARP, a microwave-powered relay plane
05.2 Refrigerator-mounted Talking Note Pad
05.3 The Experiential Typewriter
05.4 Kids' Dead Media 1937: the Auto-Magic Picture Gun
05.5 The 'writing telegraph;' Gray's Telautograph; the military telautograph; the telewriter; the telescriber
05.6 The Heliograph, the Heliotrope
05.7 The Heliograph
05.8 Russolo's Intonarumori
05.9 The Agfa Geveart "Family Camera"
06.0 The CED Video Disc Player
06.1 Eighteenth century Mail hacks
06.2 The pigeon post
06.3 Muybridge's Zoopraxiscope
06.4 The Player Piano; the Pianola; Reproducing Pianos; Reproducing Rolls
06.5 Atari Video Music
06.6 The Elcaset cartridge tape and player
06.7 Bell Labs half tone television
06.8 Popular Science 1932: Naumberg's Visagraph, the Electric Eye Linotype, Ording Music by Phone
06.9 Piesse's smell organ
07.0 Raymond Scott's Electronium
07.1 Candle-Powered Radio; Bayliss's Clockwork Radio
07.2 Cahill's Telharmonium
07.3 Soviet "Bone Music" samizdat recordings
07.4 The Talking View-Master
07.5 Dead Photographic Processes
07.6 The Luba Lukasa
07.7 Dead Video discs: Telefunken Teldec Decca TeD, TEAC system, Philips Laservision, RCA Selectavision, CED, JVC VHD/AHD
07.8 Phonevision
07.9 Sonovision
08.0 Union Telegraph Baloons, Confederate microfilm
08.1 Chase's Electric Cyclorama
08.2 The Optigan, the Opsonar, the Orchestron; the Mellotron, the Chamberlin
08.3 Computer Games are Dead pt.1
08.4 Computer Games are Dead pt.2
08.5 Computer Games are Dead pt.3
08.6 Computer Games are Dead pt.4
08.7 the Panorama
08.8 the Panorama
08.9 the Panorama
09.0 the Diorama
09.1 the Diorama
09.2 Bibliography of the Panorama
09.3 the Panorama (surviving sites)
09.4 Consumer Videotape formats
09.5 The Museum of the Moving Image: Jenkins Radiovisor, Bell Picture Telephone, RGA/Oxberry CompuQuad, Philco Predicta
09.6 the Theatrophone; the electrophone
09.7 the Theatrophone; the electrophone
09.8 Theatrophonic televangelism
09.9 Hopi town criers
10.0 Dancer's novelty microphotographs; Dagron's balloon post
10.1 Telephonic Jukeboxes: The Shyvers Multiphone, the Phonette Melody Lane, the AMI Automatic Hostess, the Rock-Ola Mystic Music System
10.2 Nazi U-boat automated weather forecasting espionage network
10.3 The Inuit Inuksuit
10.4 The General Electric Show 'N Tell
10.5 The Bletchley Park Colossus
10.6 The Bletchley Park Colossus
10.7 The Aluminum Transcription Disk
10.8 The Mark II RCA Sound Synthesizer
10.9 The Mark II RCA Sound Synthesizer
11.0 CHIPS: Dead Software, Dead Platforms
11.1 Indecks Information Retrieval System
11.2 Pneumatic Typewriters
11.3 Dead Personal Computers and Typewriters: Some Recommended Books
11.4 Early/Mechanical Television Systems (The Experiments)
11.5 Early/Mechanical Television Systems (The Pioneers)
11.6 Early/Mechanical Television Systems (Baird)
11.7 Early/Mechanical TV: Mechanical TV: The General Electric Octagon; the Daven Tri-Standard Scanning Disc; Jenkins W1IM Radiovisor Kit, the Jenkins Model 202 Radiovisor, Jenkins Radio Movies; the Baird Televisor Plessey Model, the Baird Televisor Kit; the Western Television Corporation Visionette
11.8 Baird Mechanical Television, Part One: Technical Introduction
11.9 Baird Mechanical Television, Part Two: John Logie Baird
12.0 Baird Mechanical Television, Part Three: Other Countries, Other Systems
12.1 Fire Signals and Horse Post on the Great Wall of China
12.2 The MiniCine toy projector
12.3 The Magic Lantern (society)
12.4 The Theatrophone, the electrophone
12.5 Peepshows
12.6 The Nintendo Virtual Boy, the Logitech Cyberman 3D mouse, the Nintendo Power Glove
12.7 An Amish Cyclorama
12.8 The Tru-Vue stereographic viewer
12.9 The ICL One Per Desk (computer)
13.0 The Philips Programmed Individual Presentation System (PIP)
13.1 the Travelling Panorama
13.2 the Edison Electric Pen, pneumatic pen, magnetic pen, and foot-powered pen
13.3 the Edison Electric Pen, Reed pen, and Music Ruling Pen
13.4 the Edison Electric Pen
13.5 New Guinea Talking Drum
13.6 Cat Piano and Tiger Organ
13.7 Riviere's Theatre d'Ombres (Shadow Theatre)
13.8 the Kinora
13.9 The Wilcox-Gay Recordio
14.0 Fragile formats in synthetic music
14.1 The Velvet Revolution in the Magic Lantern
14.2 Native American Smoke Signals
14.3 The Spirit Racket
14.4 the Edison Wax Cylinder (They Might Be Giants)
14.5 Kids' interactive television: "Captain Power"
14.6 the Dubroni instant camera
14.7 the Singing Telegram; the death of George P. Oslin
14.8 Computer Museum History Center; the Adidas Micropacer, the Whirlwind flight simulator, the Apricot Xi, the Cray NTDS
14.9 Robertson's Phantasmagoria
15.0 Robertson's Phantasmagoria; Seraphin's Ombres Chinoises; Guyot's smoke apparitions; the Magic Lantern
15.1 Robertson's Phantasmagoria
15.2 Robertson's Phantasmagoria; Lonsdale's Spectrographia; Meeson's phantasmagoria; the optical eidothaumata; the Capnophoric Phantoms; Moritz's phantasmagoria; Jack Bologna's Phantoscopia; Schirmer and Scholl's Ergascopia; De Berar's Optikali Illusio; Brewster's catadioptrical phantasmagoria; Pepper's Ghost
15.3 Robertson's Phantasmagoria
15.4 American Missile Mail
15.5 McDonnell Douglas Laserfilm VideoDisc Player
15.6 Two-track PlayTape; the Stanton Mail Call Letter Pack
15.7 Inuit carved maps
15.9 The Phantasmagoria; Pepper's Ghost
16.0 Edison's Vertical-Cut Records
16.1 Papyrus manuscripts on World Wide Web
16.2 The Flame Organ; The Burning Harmonica; the Chemical Harmonica; Kastner's Pyrophone
16.3 The Molecular Abacus
16.4 Telelogoscopy; Television Screen News
16.5 Phonograph History Part 1
16.6 Phonograph History Part 2
16.7 Phonograph History Part 3
16.8 PALplus television letterbox format
16.9 Heron's Nauplius
17.0 The IBM Selectric Typewriter
17.1 Telegraphy Bibliography
17.2 The Blickensderfer Typewriter; the Scientific keyboard
17.3 The Slide Rule
17.4 Dead Media Taxonomy
17.5 Wide-Screen Movies: Gance's Polyvision, Waller's Cinerama
17.6 Wide Screen Movies: CinemaScope, Todd-AO,MGM Camera 65, CinemaScope 55, Super Panavision 70, Ultra Panavision 70
17.7 Dead Cinema Color Processes
17.8 Norwegian transport wires
17.9 the pneumatic post
18.0 the pneumatic post
18.1 Dead synthesizers: the Hazelcom McLeyvier
18.2 Dead Synthesizers: the Con Brio ADS 200
18.3 Dead synthesizers: ARP 2600
18.4 the Adaptive Systems, Inc. Synthia
18.5 Popular fiction formats
18.6 the library card catalog
18.7 the library card catalog
18.8 Dead Digital Documents (Part One)
18.9 Dead Digital Documents (Part Two)
19.0 Officially Deleted Digital Documents
19.1 the Baby Mark I Computer
19.2 The Readies
19.3 Caselli's Pantelegraph (Part One)
19.4 Caselli's Pantelegraph (Part Two)
19.5 Bain's Facsimile Telegraphy
19.6 Radio Facsimile Transmitter
19.7 Baird Projection Television
19.8 Gould's 3-D Television
19.9 Duston's Talking Book
20.0 Dead human languages
20.1 The Polyrhetor; the 1939 World's Fair Futurama
20.2 the Sony Videomat
20.3 the Telegraph: the Morse Pendulum Instrument, the Morse Register
20.4 the Telegraph: Bain's Chemical Telegraph, the duplex telegraph, the quadruplex telegraph, House's Printing Telegraph, Hughes's Printing Telegraph, Phelps's Printing Telegraph, Bakewell's Fac Simile Telegraph, the Dial Telegraph
20.5 The Telegraph: Fire Alarms, Burglar Alarms, Railroad-Signal Systems, Hotel Annunciators, District Messenger Services
20.6 the Hotel Annunciator
20.7 The Telegraph: Inductive Telegraphy
20.8 The Telegraph
20.9 Flower Codes
21.0 Henry Mills' Typewriter
21.1 Typewriters: the Comptometer, the Numerograph, the book typewriterr
21.2 Brown's cash carrier
21.3 Mechanical Telephony
21.4 Super 8 mm film
21.5 Mechanical Telephony
21.6 Cash carriers
21.7 Byzantine Exultent Scroll
21.8 Dead ASCII Variants
21.9 Mechanical Telephony
22.0 Mechanical Telephony
22.1 Dead Money
22.2 The Telegraph: Wheatstone's Telegraphic Meterometer; *Scientific American* Dead Media References 1867-1875
22.3 The Amateur Radio Relay League Radiogram
22.4 The Teleplex Morse Code Recorder
22.5 Bi Sheng's Clay Printing Press
22.6 Tongan Tin Can Mail
22.7 Definitions and Connections
22.8 the Astrolabe; Ctesibius's Clepsydra Orrery
22.9 the Astrolabe in Islam
23.0 the Astrolabe in Europe
23.1 Chaucer's Astrolabe Manual
23.2 Definitions and Connections
23.3 VISIDEP 3-D Television
23.4 Coins as Media
23.5 Interactive Cable Television: Cableshop
23.6 VisiDep 3-D Television
23.7 Anschutz's 'Electrical Wonder' arcade peepshow; Anschutz's Schnellseher; Anschutz's Projecting Electrotachyscope; Anschutz's Zoetropes
23.8 Definitions and Connections
23.9 Definitions and Connections
24.0 Definitions and Connections
24.1 the Aldis Lamp; Colomb naval code
24.2 The Schulmerich Magnabell
24.3 Exchequer Tallies
24.4 Edison Electric Pen Stencil
24.5 Poster Stamps
24.6 Dead Media 1897: The Consumer Context
24.7 the Magic Lantern
24.8 The Regina Music Box
24.9 the Magic Lantern
25.0 The Regina Music Box
25.1 Vision III Imaging; Brown's Relief Projection, Oscillatory Projection, Motional Perspective, Direct Stereoscopic Projection; Brown's StereophotoDuplikon, Brown's Kinoplastikon; Brown's Stereoscopic Transmitter
25.2 Mobile Cavalry Telephone
25.3 Camras's Wire Recorder
25.4 Dead Internet Router
25.5 Minitel
25.6 The Burroughs Moon-Hopkins Typewriter/Calculator
25.7 Telegraphy: Cablese, Wirespeak, Phillips Code, Morse Code
25.8 Whistling Networks of the Canary Islands
25.9 Talking Greeting Card; Manually-Powered Sound
26.0 Dead Web Sites
26.1 Monastic sign language
26.2 Tattoos as media
26.3 Internet Archival Issues Part One
26.4 Internet Archival Issues Part Two
26.5 Internet Archival Issues Part Three
26.6 Internet Archival Issues Part Four
26.7 Stillborn Media
26.8 Stillborn Media
26.9 Typewriter Ribbon Tins Revived by Computer
27.0 Nash's Logoscope
27.1 Computer Jukebox
27.2 Spook Shows
27.3 Vinyl Multimedia
27.4 Basque Talking Drum
27.5 Dead medium: Peek-a-Boo Index Cards: Aspect Cards, Optical Coincidence Cards, and Batten Cards; Keydex, Termatrex, Minimatrex, Omnidex, Findex, Selecto, Sphinxo, Sichtlochkarten, Ekaha, Vicref, Find-It, Brisch-Vistem and Trio Index Cards; Polish Index Card Cryptography; Microcite Microfiche Index Cards; Jonkers' Minimatrex Microfiche Index Cards
27.6 US Air Force 'Clones' Obsolete Electronics
27.7 Paris pneumatic mail
27.8 RCA SelectaVision Holographic Videofilm
27.9 Hummel's Telediagraph
28.0 The Organetta
28.1 Chindogu
28.2 the Organetta, Organette, Aurephone, Cecilla, Organina Cabineto, Tournaphone, Cabinetto, Melodia, Musical Casket, Gately Automatic Organ, Tanzbar, Seraphone, and Celestina
28.3 Computer Game Emulators
28.4 Mattel Intellivision I/II/III, Tandyvision One, Super Video Arcade, Mattel Entertainment Computer System, INTV System III/IV, and Super Pro System
28.5 Mattel Intellivision I/II/III, Tandyvision One, Super Video Arcade, Mattel Entertainment Computer System, INTV System III/IV, and Super Pro System (PART 2)
28.6 The Milton Bradley Vectrex
28.7 The Milton Bradley Vectrex: Production History
28.8 Ghost Sites
28.9 De Moura's Wave Emitter
29.0 Nixie indicator tube displays; decimal counting tubes
29.1 Korean Horse Post
29.2 'Vinyl Video' conceptual art project
29.3 Naval SOS Becomes Obsolete
29.4 Pre-Digital Electronic Instruments
29.5 Dead public sirens and horns
29.6 Dead public sirens and horns; tower clocks and chimes; city-wide public address systems; factory whistles; foghorns
29.7 Telegraphy
29.8 Dead Digital Documents
29.9 The Philips-Miller Audio Recording System
30.0 Trail Blazing by Apes
30.1 Notched Bones
30.2 The Vortex Experimental Theater
30.3 Minifon Pocket-size Wire Recorder
30.4 Trail Blazing in Ancient Australia
30.5 Paper Magnetic-Recording Tape
30.6 Age-Specific Media
30.7 AT&T Telephotography; AT&T Picturephone
30.8 Mechanical Sirens and Foghorns
30.9 Quadraphonics
31.0 Metal Money
31.1 Dead Chinese Coinage
31.2 Timex Magnetic Disk Recorder
31.3 the Pigeon Post
31.4 Antique Chip Fabricator
31.5 The Toy Artist drawing automaton
31.6 "Sound Bites" musical candy
31.7 Phonovid Vinyl Video
31.8 Ancient Irish fire beacon
31.9 the Pigeon Post
32.0 State-supported dead media; causes of media mortality; Roman relay runners, Mongol horse post, Polybius's fire signals, British Naval Howe Code, Pony Express, Aztec signals, optical telegraphy
32.1 Public Fire Alarms In Colonial Shanghai
32.2 the Chiu-mou-ti Hsing-wu-t'ai
32.3 Crandall's Electric Sign
32.4 Dead Digital Documents
32.5 Winky-Dink Interactive TV
32.6 the Cat Piano
32.7 the Cat Piano, The Donkey Chorus, the Pig Piano
32.8 Train Token Signals System
32.9 Optical Heliography
33.1 Train Token Signals System
33.2 Ramelli's Book Wheel
33.3 The Camera Obscura (Part Two)
33.4 the Camera Obscura (Part Three)
33.5 the Camera Obscura (Part Four)
33.6 Riviere's Theatre d'ombres 1
33.7 Riviere's Theatre d'ombres 2
33.8 Riviere's Theatre d'ombres 3
33.9 Riviere's Theatre d'ombres 4
34.0 Camera Obscuras Existing Today
34.1 Immortal Media
34.2 Pigeon post
34.3 Donisthorpe's Kinesigraph
34.4 Barlows potatography
34.5 Naragansett Drum Rocks
34.6 Pneumatic mail (Part One)
34.7 Pneumatic mail (Part Two)
34.8 Pneumatic mail (Part Three)
34.9 Pneumatic mail (Part Four)
35.0 Pigeon Post
35.1 Radio Killed the Vaudeville Star
35.2 the Pigeon Post
35.3 Military Pigeoneers of World War Two
35.4 Military Pigeoneers of World War Two
35.5 Military Pigeoneers of World War Two
35.6 Pigeon paraphernalia
35.7 The Fisher-Price Pixelvision
35.8 German military telephony
35.9 Dabbawallah delivery service
36.0 the pigeon post; the ostrich post
36.1 the Auto-typist
36.2 Unstable Photographs
36.3 Freight Tubes
36.4 Freight Tube Bibliography
36.5 The Clegg-Selvan pneumatic vehicle; wire conveyors, cash carriers, parcel carriers; the Lamson Tube; pneumatic tube industrial history
36.6 Fungal Hallucinogens in Decaying Archives
36.7 The Robotyper; the Flexowriter
36.8 Computer Game Designer Dies Young, But Outlives Own Games
36.9 Pneumatic Tubes
37.0 Pneumatic Tubes
37.1 Dead supercomputers become furniture
37.2 Dead tunnels of Chicago
37.3 Dead tunnels of Chicago; a bibliography
37.4 Dead tunnels of Chicago; eyewitness report

Source: Bruce Sterling bruces@well.com

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