A magazine about old and stubbornly durable technology, served from a solar-powered box in Barcelona. When the battery runs low the images dither and the site goes offline.
Maria Popova's decades-long reading diary: long, careful essays threading poets, scientists and letter-writers together, with no ads and no sponsors of any kind.
Visual essays answering questions nobody thought to ask — how pockets differ by gender, what makes a rap lyric rhyme. Journalism you scroll through rather than read.
Essays curating the strangest and loveliest things that have fallen out of copyright.
Over 30,000 original car brochures scanned from European dealer archives, free as PDFs with no sign-up, each linked to the model's specs. Home-market editions you won't find elsewhere.
Monuments and cultural heritage scanned into detailed 3D models you can orbit in the browser, from the Trevi Fountain to small-town churches.
Millions of user manuals for appliances, cars, cameras and gadgets, searchable by model and readable online.
