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.

Saturday, May 11, 2024

A Technological Appendix to Postblogging Technology, January 1954: Dieselpunk

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  Did anyone else reading this frequent Young and Bloor in the early Nineties? Remember the giant poster of Pamela Anderson as Barbed Wire ?...
Monday, May 6, 2024

Postblogging Technology, January 1954, I: Night of the Comet

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  R_. C_., Shaughnessy, Vancouver, Canada Dear Father: We're back in London, fully settled in, and back on the edge of the Comet investi...
Monday, April 29, 2024

Postblogging Technology, January 1951, I: A Whole New Year

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R_.C_., Shaughnessy, Vancouver, Canada Dear Father: Thank you again for your hospitality, which I am sorry I am so late, but things in Londo...
Friday, April 19, 2024

A Technological and Nimrodian Appendix to Postblogging Technology, Fall 1953: Delta Dawn

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 There was something about " Delta Dawn ," an earworm of my childhood (written by Larry Collins and Alex Harvey, as performed byTa...
Saturday, April 13, 2024

A Technological and Muck-Raking Appendix to Postblogging Technology, December Titanium

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  By Anynobody - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=18445244 Titanium is, we keep hearing, going to be ...
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Saturday, April 6, 2024

Postblogging Technology, December 1953, II: Girls Who Won't Say No

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R_.C_., Shaughnessy, Vancouver, Canada Dear Father: Norah Docker for woman of the year, 1953! I guess the day had to come when I wasn't ...
Sunday, March 31, 2024

Postblogging Technology, December 1953, I: The Louche Years Begin

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  R_., C_., Shaughnessy, Vancouver, Canada Dear Father: Thank you for the tickets, which we received on Monday. I have no idea how you found...
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