Bench Grass

Bench Grass is a blog about the history of technology by the former student of a student of Lynn White. The main focus is a month-by-month retrospective series, covering the technology news, broadly construed, of seventy years ago, framed by fictional narrators. The author is Erik Lund, an "independent scholar" in Vancouver, British Columbia. Last post will be 24 July 2039.

Sunday, August 23, 2026

Summer Road Trip 2026: Apocalypsing Outside

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  So I’m taking a day in Hope for various reasons not limited to the hellacious wildfire smoke and I’ve ended up sitting down for dinner for...
Sunday, August 16, 2026

Tinkertoy to Dexion: A Technical Appendix to Postblogging Technology, April 1956

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By susiq5555 - ebay #120137669430, permission granted [1], CC BY-SA 3.0,   "Tinkertoy" is the title because it is what comes to mi...
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Sunday, August 9, 2026

Postblogging Technology, April 1956, II: Colonial Inertia

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R_.C_., Shaughnessy, Vancouver, Canada Dear Father: A bit of Flight for you, and a whole bunch of British politics with Miles Thomas' re...
Sunday, August 2, 2026

Postblogging Technology, April 1956: Mirage Rising

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R_., C_., Shaughnessy, Vancouver, Canada Dear Father: It is, of course, my fault that I forgot some issues while packing for our trip to Hon...
Saturday, July 25, 2026

The Iron Age Revival of the State, XXVII: Towards an Economic History of the Trojan Women

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  "That the topless towers be burnt/And men recall that face,/Move gently if move you must/In this lonely place./She thinks, part woman...
Saturday, July 18, 2026

Gathering the Bones, XXVI: Philadelphia and Conestoga.

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  Conestoga wagon at the National Museum of American History By Daderot - Own work, CC0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=267...
Sunday, July 12, 2026

Gathering the Bones, XXV: Iron, Butchery, And An Ecotone

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  Look what they found at Hattusa in 2015! It is unfortunately Galatian rather than Early Iron Age, but it's definitely a saw. I'll...
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