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, September 7, 2025

Postblogging Technnology, May 1955, II: It Sure Better Not Be 99 Balloons Going By!

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R_.C._, Shaughnessy, Vancouver, Canada Dear Father: @Ferry Life: https://ferriesbc.proboards.com/thread/9490/bc-ferries-memories You find me...
Saturday, August 30, 2025

Draining Lake Copais: A Technical Appendix to Postblogging Technology, May 1955, I With Bonus LBA Collapse

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 Edit: A bit quick with this one.  Responding to a 29 November, 1952 article in The Economist putting forward    "rather pessimistic pr...
Thursday, August 28, 2025

Postblogging Technology, May 1955: The One I Forgot To Post On Saturday!

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R_.C_., The Lodge, Campbell River, British Columbia, Canada Dear Father: The election is well on over here and how I wish I was off the Spit...
Friday, August 15, 2025

Philco, Roger: A Technical Appendix to Postblogging Technology, April 1955

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  Not to be indelicate, but what the fuck happened?  As Philco ("Philadelphia Electric Company") launches the marketing campaign f...
Sunday, August 10, 2025

Postblogging Technology, April 1955, II: Streaming and Peppermint Bombs

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Fortune is going to get you Philistines into abstract art even if it takes another 25 years R_.C_., Shaughnessy, Vancouver, Canada Dear Fath...
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Sunday, August 3, 2025

Rural Crime Watch Area; Or, A Vacation Post for 2025

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  In a perfect world this would be a substantive post, as I left on my summer bike  trip last Wednesday and arrived home yesterday. On the o...
Tuesday, July 22, 2025

Pentomic: A Technical But Actually Sociological Appendix to Postblogging Technology, April 1955, I

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  Detail of 1779 chorographical map of New York (including chorographical details of adjacent parts of New Jersey but evidently not those of...
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