Tom Tryniski digitized nearly 50M pages of newspapers in his living room

Re:Tom Tryniski digitized nearly 50M pages of newspapers in ... by dehef on Monday July 30, 2018 @02:36AM (#17642484)

Not being ironic, I really like his website. Brutalism amateurs should take a look http://fultonhistory.com/ That is the perfect example (on desktop), no regard for the design, still perfectly functional (including back button etc..).

Edit: just noticed the use of jAlbum for the gallery. Just adding +1 to nostalgia :)

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Re:Tom Tryniski digitized nearly 50M pages of newspapers in ... by adrianN on Monday July 30, 2018 @03:27AM (#17642660)

Renders as a blank page with a color changing square in the lower right corner for me. Very minimalist.

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Re:Tom Tryniski digitized nearly 50M pages of newspapers in ... by swah on Monday July 30, 2018 @06:49AM (#17643498)

I like it too. Reminds me of a similar ("not-ironic") site here in Brazil: https://www.ccdb.gea.nom.br/

This guy serves tens of thousands of pages of his master piece book called Gea, and even makes his own bizarre old style renderings and animations to go with it.

A recent rendering of his muse, Ky:

https://www.ccdb.gea.nom.br/ky_2019_altissima_resolucao_2758...

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Re:Tom Tryniski digitized nearly 50M pages of newspapers in ... by pimlottc on Monday July 30, 2018 @09:10AM (#17644149)

Brutalism != "no regard for design", but an initially unadorned and functional design that makes no attempt to hide materials and structure.

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Re:Tom Tryniski digitized nearly 50M pages of newspapers in ... by bni on Monday July 30, 2018 @03:43AM (#17642736)

Wants me to install something called flash, no thanks

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Re:Tom Tryniski digitized nearly 50M pages of newspapers in ... by culot on Monday July 30, 2018 @10:28AM (#17644579)

Flash isn't necessary to use the site. It seems to be used for a PDF display portion of the archive search's split-pane view. The search results are displayed fine without Flash.

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Re:Tom Tryniski digitized nearly 50M pages of newspapers in ... by vanderZwan on Monday July 30, 2018 @02:41AM (#17642498)

Oh wow, thank you for pointing that out! You can barely see it because the internet is too fast these days, but after you click a link it says "A wise decision!"

EDIT: His donation page is here: http://fultonhistory.com/Donation%20paypal.html

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