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A daily high-resolution photograph from the early twentieth century, usually with commenters identifying the buildings.
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Shorpy sits in History & Time under Learn, filed as a minute.
About this category: Historical maps, timelines, primary sources and the strange experience of seeing a moment in time laid out as an interface.
Yes. Shorpy is free to use and needs no account.
No. You can use Shorpy without signing up for anything.
Yes. Shorpy works on phones as well as desktop browsers.
Yes, we file it as safe for work. It also works muted.
We file it as "A minute": One quick round, then you can leave.
Millions of images and 3D scans from the Smithsonian's collections, released with no copyright restrictions at all.
A history map with a timeline slider, layered with rulers, religions, battles and linked encyclopedia articles.
Scanned American newspapers from 1770 to 1963, full-text searchable, which is a dangerous thing to discover on a weeknight.
Over a hundred thousand high-resolution scanned maps, georeferenced and free to zoom into more or less indefinitely.
Doom compiled to WebAssembly and running at full speed in a tab, which is either nostalgia or a small engineering miracle.
The seat-pocket catalogue survived the airline it came with and moved online, still selling garden yetis to a captive audience.
News for nerds since 1997, with tech headlines and threaded comments kept in order by a reader moderation system older than most social networks.
Listener-funded, advert-free channels out of San Francisco, Drone Zone and Groove Salad among them, going since the dial-up era.
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