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2 Warps to Neptune
Personal blog · 2warpstoneptune.comculturehistory
2 Warps to Neptune is a personal blog at 2warpstoneptune.com about culture and history. Since 2019, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times. The last post was in 2016, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked for retro and vintage curiosities: an ET Finger Light controversy, Dune Sandworm action figures, NASA 1970s space colony art, and Usborne 'Future Cities' illustrated books. Commenters cite posts as examples or sources.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Surveying the Gen X landscape and the origins of geek
Most-linked posts?
- /2014/03/04/usborne-publishing-the-world-of-the-future-future-cities-1979/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-11-23
What Hacker News says?
Probably the same prudish parents who got outraged over the ET Finger Light. https://2warpstoneptune.com/2015/02/13/e-t-finger-light-knic... Or the Dune Sandworm Action Figure: https://2warpstoneptune.com/2014/08/28/ljns-dune-toys-sandwo... Sometimes a Dune Sandworm Action Figure is only a Dune Sandworm Action Figure.
Comment linking /2014/08/28/ljns-dune-toys-sandworm-1984/
on “Buttplug: An open-source software suite for teledildonics”Submitted Kids Playing Atari in Department Store, 1981 as a story · 2 points
HN discussionOnce I read the headline I thought of the fantastic books by Usborne (or Plesa in the Spanish speaking world), Future Cities[^1] and the Book of the Future [^2]. These illustrations are super inspirational. [^1] https://2warpstoneptune.com/2014/03/04/usborne-publishing-th... [^2] https://www.murrayewing.co.uk/mewsings/2011/04/17/the-usborn...
Comment linking /2014/03/04/usborne-publishing-the-world-of-the-future-future-cities-1979/
on “Space colonies of the future as imagined by NASA in the 1970s”I'd love to see it. I had a set of similar books I would pore through as a child like 'Future Cities'[1]. I think it might have been part of a series as well. There was also this big thick book from Readers Digest that had all kinds of things you could build Model boats and Planes (among other things). It's not the 'Crafts and Hobbies' one that's on the internet archive, but it was similar. [1]: https://2warpstonept…
Comment linking /2014/03/04/usborne-publishing-the-world-of-the-future-future-cities-1979/
on “Whole Earth Index”
