The Vintage Future: history

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Friday, September 30, 2011

Paleofuture

What would future look like from the past?

Paleofuture answers to that question!

http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/paleofuture/ -- Paleofuture blog
http://www.paleofuture.com/paleofuturetv/ -- Paleofuture TV
http://prettypictures.paleofuture.com/ -- Pretty pictures (from Paleofuture)
http://www.paleofuture.com/ -- Old Paleofuture site (Archive and home of Paleofuture.tv and magazine)

Sunday, June 19, 2011

The Old Motor

Interesting old automobile related pictures. There is also category for steam powered automobiles!

From the site:
"An informative and entertaining antique automobile photo magazine"

http://theoldmotor.com/

Tuesday, September 28, 2010

Low Tech Magazine

Doubts on technology

Low Tech Magazine is all about good old tech still in use; and also obsolete tech from the past...

lowtechmagazine.com
lowtechmagazine.com/history --History category
lowtechmagazine.com/obsolete-technology --Obsolete tech category

Sunday, February 14, 2010

The Dieselpunk blog

Blog dedicated to the dieselpunk...

http://dieselpunks.blogspot.com/

Thursday, February 4, 2010

The Daily Undertaker -blog

The following link is not about steampunk or retrofuturism,
but it is some how related with my interests; The Daily Undertaker.
Lots of beautiful stories about burial culture and cemeteries

www.dailyundertaker.com

Death never changes...

Saturday, October 10, 2009

A Hindenburg and Zeppelin History Site

Really interesting site about history of zeppelins by Mr. Dan Grossman.
Lots of rare and high-guality photographs from airship era!

Wednesday, May 14, 2008

The Steampunk Timeline

"The steampunk timeline of future past"

http://jaborwhalky.com/Site%2014/The%20Steamp...

Monday, May 12, 2008

Retrolution.dk

Retrolution is blog about vintage retro toys and gadgets.. Really interesting site...

http://www.retrolution.dk/

Monday, May 5, 2008

Modern Mechanix blog

This blog is full of interesting articles and scans from vintage Modern Mechanix magazines;
Old retro-futuristic gadgets, machines and architecture...

http://blog.modernmechanix.com/

English Russia (History section)

...blog about Russia in english..

There is "history" tag in English Russia containing lot's of vintage soviet monuments and tech; So you can find many dieselpunkish or retro-futuristic things from there...

http://englishrussia.com/?cat=12 --- English Russia history section

Thursday, November 22, 2007

Color photos from 1902

Sergey Prokudin-Grosky was first photographer (and chemist) who captured world in colors...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergey_Prokudin-Gorsky --Wikipedia entry of Sergey Prokudin
http://www.prokudin-gorsky.ru/database.php3?first=0... --Archive of early color photos

Internet Sacred Text Archive

http://www.sacred-texts.com/

Sacred-texts.com contains lots of religious, mythical, folklore and mythology texts from history..
All available for free in the site.

The Vimanika Shastra

http://www.sacred-texts.com/ufo/vs/ (broken link!)
http://web.archive.org/web/200... -- Above site in Archive.org
http://fortunaty.net/com/sacred-... -- Another mirror of complete book
http://www.bibliotecapleyades... -- Vymanika Shastra Rediscovered
Vaimanika Shastra -- @ Wikipedia

Mysterious Veda-writing about aerial technology of forgotten Indian (Hindu) culture...

Ancient machinery book, ufo story or Hindu-scifi..?

PS. Originally it's text was some how "channeled" in late 19th century... So it is perfect example of those tech-occult things from 1800's :)

EDIT: Original link does not work any more so I added some new...

The Unmuseum

Interesting stories about unknown and unnatural things.. Hoaxes.. And strange historical stories..

http://www.unmuseum.org/unmain.htm

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