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Martin Hamilton
Martin Hamilton
@m@martinh.net  ·  activity timestamp 4 months ago

You can access the #BBC #Domesday #DomesdayProject data and pictures on the UK #NationalArchives #DomesdayReloaded site, although it's not the same without the laserdisc whirring away...

Here is the totally real and not made up at all Battle of Huntingdon:

https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ukgwa/20120321122412/http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/domesday/dblock/GB-524000-270000/page/2

https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ukgwa/20120321122412/http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/domesday/dblock/GB-524000-270000/page/2
Martin Hamilton
Martin Hamilton
@m@martinh.net replied  ·  activity timestamp 4 months ago

Bonus! Online #BBC #Domesday #DomesdayProject emulator that runs in your web browser blobfoxhyper2
https://domesday.computinghistory.org.uk/community_north.html

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Martin Hamilton
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@m@martinh.net  ·  activity timestamp 4 months ago

An early example of digital disinformation in user generated content, from the #BBC #Domesday #DomesdayProject. None of this actually happened. Huntingdon doesn't even have two bridges...

Ancient computer monitor displaying the details of the totally fictitious Battle of Huntingdon.
Ancient computer monitor displaying the details of the totally fictitious Battle of Huntingdon.
Ancient computer monitor displaying the details of the totally fictitious Battle of Huntingdon.
Martin Hamilton
Martin Hamilton
@m@martinh.net replied  ·  activity timestamp 4 months ago

You can access the #BBC #Domesday #DomesdayProject data and pictures on the UK #NationalArchives #DomesdayReloaded site, although it's not the same without the laserdisc whirring away...

Here is the totally real and not made up at all Battle of Huntingdon:

https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ukgwa/20120321122412/http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/domesday/dblock/GB-524000-270000/page/2

https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ukgwa/20120321122412/http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/domesday/dblock/GB-524000-270000/page/2
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Martin Hamilton
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@m@martinh.net  ·  activity timestamp 4 months ago

Broke my journey from #WHY2025 to visit the Centre for Computing History and see the last working Domesday Machine. Send me UK place names, and I will try to look them up for you! goathacker #BBC #Domesday #DomesdayProject #RetroComputing

Photo of a slightly swollen BBC Micro with a gigantic laserdisc player to the left and a weird trackball controller to the right. The person demonstrating it was one of the schoolchildren who supplied photos and descriptions of their community, with zero fact checking by the BBC...
Photo of a slightly swollen BBC Micro with a gigantic laserdisc player to the left and a weird trackball controller to the right. The person demonstrating it was one of the schoolchildren who supplied photos and descriptions of their community, with zero fact checking by the BBC...
Photo of a slightly swollen BBC Micro with a gigantic laserdisc player to the left and a weird trackball controller to the right. The person demonstrating it was one of the schoolchildren who supplied photos and descriptions of their community, with zero fact checking by the BBC...
Martin Hamilton
Martin Hamilton
@m@martinh.net replied  ·  activity timestamp 4 months ago

An early example of digital disinformation in user generated content, from the #BBC #Domesday #DomesdayProject. None of this actually happened. Huntingdon doesn't even have two bridges...

Ancient computer monitor displaying the details of the totally fictitious Battle of Huntingdon.
Ancient computer monitor displaying the details of the totally fictitious Battle of Huntingdon.
Ancient computer monitor displaying the details of the totally fictitious Battle of Huntingdon.
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@m@martinh.net  ·  activity timestamp 4 months ago

Broke my journey from #WHY2025 to visit the Centre for Computing History and see the last working Domesday Machine. Send me UK place names, and I will try to look them up for you! goathacker #BBC #Domesday #DomesdayProject #RetroComputing

Photo of a slightly swollen BBC Micro with a gigantic laserdisc player to the left and a weird trackball controller to the right. The person demonstrating it was one of the schoolchildren who supplied photos and descriptions of their community, with zero fact checking by the BBC...
Photo of a slightly swollen BBC Micro with a gigantic laserdisc player to the left and a weird trackball controller to the right. The person demonstrating it was one of the schoolchildren who supplied photos and descriptions of their community, with zero fact checking by the BBC...
Photo of a slightly swollen BBC Micro with a gigantic laserdisc player to the left and a weird trackball controller to the right. The person demonstrating it was one of the schoolchildren who supplied photos and descriptions of their community, with zero fact checking by the BBC...
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