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, April 26, 2026

The Fall of Rome, VII: One, Two, Many Irans

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  The real story of the week is that I finally dragged my ass out to the library on Wednesday, cleared my account, and placed my next batch ...
Sunday, April 19, 2026

Catseye: A Technical Appendix to Postblogging Technology, December 1955

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  This cover is credited to Richard M. Powers , and is so beautiful that I decided that I couldn't just stick the credit in a subtitle. ...
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Wednesday, April 8, 2026

Postblogging Technology, December, 1955, II: Peace On Earth and Sick Presidents. (In 1955!)

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We've done this before, but Pogo has never been more relevant. R_. C_., Shaughnessy, Vancouver, Canada Dear Father: Once again I am writ...
Saturday, April 4, 2026

Postblogging Technology, December 1955: A Heart-Warming Christmas Time

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R_. C._, Shaughnessy, Vancouver, Canada Dear Father: Hopefully this, and the Christmas post accompanying, will reach you before you leave fo...
Sunday, March 29, 2026

Minesweeping: A Technical Appendix to Postblogging Technology, November 1955

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 In a perfect world where everyone spent their time following the paparazzi who follow me around, you all would have learned not to take my ...
Friday, March 20, 2026

Gathering the Bones XXIII: The Royal Proclamation of 1763, Manifest Destiny, and The Reality of 19% Grades

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  Lana Del Rey? I'm so old I remember when "Lana Del Rey" was an ironic comment on "Lana Del Rey." But I guess she d...
Sunday, March 15, 2026

Line Scanning: A Technical Appendix to Postblogging Technology, November 1955

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 My familiarity with all of this begins with vignettes in Charles Stross novels in which Concordes and the like demonstrate that there's...
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