Miscellaneous videos

The local church has an event on later today so they are seeing up a zip line for children to watch their soft toys go down on a zip line.

This is a promo VHS tape for Microprose F19 Stealth Fighter on the Atari ST Source: https://archive.org/details/3.-f-19-stealth-dust-scratches-filter-hb

This is a copy of a promotional VHS tape supplied with some Amiga A500's in New Zealand back in 1990 Chapters: 00:00 - Introduction 00:45 - The Commodore family of computers 01:51 - The Amiga 500 hardware 02:13 - Unpacking, 501 installation...

Video showing the percentage of users using different Web browsers over a 28 year period from January 1994 to March 2022. I found this whilst cleaning up one of my drives so I don't know where this came from

UK TV Acorn Computers Learning Curve Advert for the Acorn Archimedes dating from 1991

UK TV Advert from 1990 for the ZX Spectrum +2 James Bond Action Pack

TV Advert for the Acorn Electron shown in 1984

This is a copy of the now infamous Mother of All Demos presented by Douglas Engelbart on December 9, 1968. The 90-minute presentation demonstrated for the first time many of the fundamental elements of modern personal computing: windows, hypert...

A TV advert for the Acorn BBC Microcomputer which aired in December 1984. Starring Scottish comedian and actor Stanley Baxter

This is a simple test of Pimoroni's NVMe Base with a 500GB Kioxia drive attached to a Raspberry PI 5B via it's PCIe port. It goes from power on to the desktop opening. It shows how fast an NVMe drive really is

In memory of Shane MacGowan of The Pogues who died today aged 65. This is their performance of 'Fairytale of New York' with Kirsty MacColl on BBC's Top of the Pops for the first time. Recorded in December 1987.

A young fox browsing around one early Sunday morning. How it got there is a good question as the window in the shot is on the first floor & it's walking on part of a roof

How the Internet Archive digitises old 78rpm discs - the same collection the music industry is sadly suing the archive over... Source: https://archive.org/details/mass78rpmdiscdigitization From their metadata: Presented by George Blood Au...

That feeling when you finally figured the fix to a bug.

Back in 1985, Carl Sagan told Congress that continuing to burn fossil fuels will increase global temperature, cause climate change, melt glaciers and ice sheets, and cause sea level rise. His solution: Fewer government subsidies for fossil fuel...

This is a raw unprocessed copy of the prototype Sky camera. Host: Raspberry PI 4B 2GB Camera: Raspberry PI Camera Module 3 Wide Exposure times vary depending on time of day, from a normal automatic exposure to 60 second exposures at night. ...

A quick short of the local fox being picked up by the cameras in the early hours of this morning.

This appeared on Mastodon and shows a fake advert for a game called Tech Fighter Turbo which is in the style of Street Fighter but the characters are all Tech Billionaires. No idea who did this but it is a laugh

The infamous scene in Jurassic Park where one of the main characters says "It's a Unix System, I know this"

After the BBC finished broadcasting Wimbledon tonight, as I was watching it on iPlayer they didn't cut the feed for a few minutes, so an unusual sight of someone on Centre court with a lawnmower