September 2022

Archive cards

by Bret Victor

Every item in the Dynamicland archive (2024) is a physical playing card, which lives in a stack or card sleeve.

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Archive Kit (2022) turns these cards into the Dynamicland archive website.

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Making cards for the early Dynamicland years (2017-2018).

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Making cards for the CDG years (2014-2016).

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Live editing cards.

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See also reflections in Tagging media (2022).

These videos show the tools in an early state. For later evolution, see Archive editing (2024).


The laptop is used to view the website (because the “legacy medium” of the web is the target of this project) but all editing and programming happens in Realtalk.