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Douglas E. WelchVanishing Culture: Punch Card Knitting | Internet Archive BlogsPunch cards are a fascinating binary data storage format that aren’t just history—they’re still used by knitting machines today! Thanks to the Internet Archive and other collections, we still have access to historic punch cards, but there are some technical challenges to using them in the format they’re stored in. Meet a few folx working on those challenges. <a href="https://welchwrite.com/blog/2025/04/30/vanishing-culture-punch-card-knitting-via-internet-archive-blogs-shared/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://welchwrite.com/blog/2025/04/30/vanishing-culture-punch-card-knitting-via-internet-archive-blogs-shared/</a><a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/history" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#history</a> <a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/knit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#knit</a> <a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/knitting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#knitting</a> <a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/technology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#technology</a> <a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/punchcard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#punchcard</a> <a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/fashion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fashion</a> <a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/machinery" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#machinery</a> <a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/programming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#programming</a> <a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/shared" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#shared</a> <a href="https://fuzzies.wtf/@altbot" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@altbot</a>

rogeliopOh my! 😆 <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/PunchCard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PunchCard</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/Programming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Programming</a>

ITs History!<a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/PDP?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PDP</a>-1 <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/minicomputers?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#minicomputers</a> by <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/DEC?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DEC</a> been powerful enough to process and <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/display?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#display</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/vector?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#vector</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/graphics?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#graphics</a>. So the first <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/computergame?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#computergame</a> ran on <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/Digital?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Digital</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/Equipment?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Equipment</a> in the <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/1960s?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#1960s</a> — long before <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/microcomputers?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#microcomputers</a> came up. <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/retrocomputing?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#retrocomputing</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/gaming?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#gaming</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/hardware?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#hardware</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/illustration?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#illustration</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/legendary?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#legendary</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/IT?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#IT</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/vintage?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#vintage</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/punchcard?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#punchcard</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/computer?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#computer</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/art?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#art</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/lightpen?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#lightpen</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/FOSS?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FOSS</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/SVG?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SVG</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/Inkscape?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Inkscape</a>

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