The History Is In The Shirts 109
lloyd tabb writes "I've been walking around for years saying that the history of technology is best told through the Geek T-shirts that were made during the development process. Geek Shirts are funny, insightful and often the only record of what really happened.
Recently, while cleaning out my closet, I realized that unless I did something, all this history was going to rot away.
Anyway, so I hacked, and here it is, Geekt.org, Geek History through T-Shirts. It's a user contributed site, so get your shirts and ditigal camera and fire away."
Geez... (Score:1)
Re:Apple shirts! (Score:2)
The book is Apple T-Shirts: A Yearbook of History at Apple Computer by Gordon Thygeson, January 1998. The book's web site is, logically enough, http://www.appletshirts.com/ [appletshirts.com].
Unfortunately the web site says that holiday shipments will be made on "Monday, December 20th" implying that the last update to the site was in late 1999...so I don't know if it's still available.
Business Method Patents Northwest (you know who I mean :-) says it ships in "2-3 days", if you trust their estimates.
So... (Score:1)
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Re:history is in the sizes (Score:1)
Try again. Container tags are like this: <tag> ... </tag>. *Non*-container tags are like this: <tag/>, and have been since XHTML.
ok i went through all of them .... (Score:1)
geeks are such nerds.
Re:Apple shirts! (Score:1)
Re:Geez... (Score:1)
Software is like sex? (Score:2)
What I wish I'd gotten, when I had the chance, was the LHS t-shirt with the Ghandi quote on it. That was so appropriate for the state of Linux at that time. Today, an appropriate t-shirt would have the word "Linux" with dollar signs all over it, because Linux is now a business, not a cult. Which is fine and dandy especially for someone like me who likes to eat! But it's good to remember that Linux survived just fine without the IBM's and Dells of the world.
-E
Try Sun (Score:1)
So now that Sun and Netscape have formed iPlanet, do they plan to take over the world with tshirts then?
I had a feeling you were going to say that.
Re:This needs some order (Score:2)
Re:What about making your own? (Score:1)
I know my male friends would find it funny, but I bet I would be crucified by my female friends (and they are the ones who are more important to impress!
The Real Wang? (Score:1)
Definitely the funniest geek T has to be Martin on the Simpsons with his Wang T-shirt on the school bus saying something like I hope this commotion takes the attention away from my shirt!
I can't see the shirts (Score:1)
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KMFMS (Score:1)
Interesting site but... (Score:2)
None of the T-shirts were alll that old.
One I would have liked to have seen was the one that some guy wore to a DECUS Symposium years ago. It had printed on it the DCL code you needed to disable the VMS license manager. Apparently, DECUS officials quietly asked him to not wear it anymore.
Another one was from HP back in the '70s. The University was a beta site for MPE and got some goodies as a result. There was a poster that had a neat design and said `Homo Programmus'. One of the student admins (a classmate) got a T-shirt with that on it. I was bummed they didn't have more.
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Re:Coolest one I had... (Score:2)
They weren't really (floppy, that is).
Re:What? No Joel Furr shirts? (Score:2)
Pity my wife gave the entire box of purple "WONK!" shirts to goodwill a while back. Damn, they were ugly
Geek shirts for girls? (Score:1)
Re:somebody mirror this (Score:1)
Re:NCC and where are t-shirts prior to last 3-year (Score:2)
When I was in Atari Computer Camp, I had a T-shirt that the press [yes, the press covered Atari Computer Camp like flies] loved: it simply said, "My Computer Understands Me."
I wish that I still had that shirt.
I wish that my computer understood me.
My Favorite, and a Good Resource (Score:5)
My favorite t-shirt was from Apple. It was done up as a MacOS error dialog, and read:
with the arrow positioned over the [Cancel] button.
More generally, you can also get any shirt you want printed up and made available for sale at CafePress.com [cafepress.com]. Need a shirt printed up for your Quake clan? Toss 'em some artwork and they'll crank 'em out for you for $9.95 each. Go spelunking through their t-shirt index sometime; some of them are quite neat.
Schwab
c:\dos (Score:1)
Re:Question (Score:1)
Sure do. There's a great company online called CafePress [cafepress.com] that you just upload images to, and they create a free storefront for you - you decide how much over the base price the user's cost is, and they do all the manufacturing, processing, and shipping, and cut you a check for the difference at the end of the month. Yes, there's NO OUT OF POCKET COSTS. Pardon the french, but it's a fucking brilliant business model. Wish I had thought of it!
a little late, but, Lars/Napster shirts (Score:1)
Re:Apple shirts! (Score:2)
Re:This needs some order (Score:2)
its kinda hard (Score:1)
use LaTeX? want an online reference manager that
Re:Question (Score:1)
-this post is completely on-topic and should not be modded down.
Re:What about making your own? (Score:2)
I want (Score:1)
And a web site! (Score:2)
I did a review of that book once for TidBITS [tidbits.com], which you can find here [tidbits.com]
I'm wearing a such item now... fresh from Goodwill (Score:3)
Front: (With SGI logo) "My other computer is a Cray"
Back: (With Cray logo) "My other computer is a SGI"
I even have an old WOW by Compuserve t-shirt. They sent it out after the service went down. Yes, I did use that service for about 3 months. In addition, there's my old XYvision shirt I store from my father.
While not geeky, a great shirt I have to wear at bars has a few masks of angry faces and underneath:
"there is only one..."
And under that has the Xanax logo! It seems to be an offical company shirt. Yet another great Goodwill find. I guess I have to photograph and scan some of these.
I have a smart math teacher then... (Score:1)
I have a smart math teacher then...He can both code, and he knew what my binary shirt said! I was pretty impressed.
(he had visited thinkgeek)
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Re:He's right, definitely on topic. (Score:1)
Re: (Score:1)
Re:c:\dos (Score:2)
Re:c:\dos (Score:3)
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It's also making fun of the fact that W95 still had DOS underneath.
Re:history is in the sizes (Score:1)
At least you can buy shirts in your size like that. I've been looking the last two hours and can't find anything smaller than a Large.
Guess it's some white paint and stencils for me. At least they'll be one of a kind. :)
Re:What about making your own? (Score:1)
I have no personal experience with them, anybody care to comment how they work?
german tshirts (Score:2)
Re:Oh boy, something to do with my.... (Score:2)
garyr (owner of probably the only car still sporting a DV/X bumper sticker)
sex, drugs and Unix (Score:3)
Re:What? No Joel Furr shirts? (Score:3)
Agreed, Joel Furr [furrs.org] made some damn fine stuff. But the RSA shirt is on geekt, BTW.
I still wear my Serdar Argic [jaedworks.com] shirt in my standard rotation. I'll scan it tonight when I get home.
Hmm... would other Usenet shirts qualify as Geek T's? For example, Suicide Squid [squiddies.org] from rec.arts.comics.* ?
p.s. If anyone has a Green Card Lawyer shirt they don't wear, I want to buy it! (L or XL, clean, wearable, no holes) Anyone?
Re:history is in the sizes (Score:1)
Are you honestly asking me to pity you for being thin? Is that what you're asking? Oh, you poor, poor baby!
"I just eat and eat and eat, and I can't gain any weight. Woe is me."
"My Porsche and my new Ferarri can't both fit in my garage at the same time. I'll have to park one in the driveway. The horror!"
"So many attractive people want to have sex with me, I can't make up my mind. Pity me!"
Bite me, twig-boy.
history is in the sizes (Score:5)
Re:c:\dos (Score:1)
Apple ran when IBM first introduced their version
of the PC. And shortly after Apple's products
started getting spanked in the marketplace.
It's that sort of blatant arrogance in the face
of changing market conditions that put Apple
where it is today.
Re:The Simpsons (Score:1)
I'm going to have to find it and send it into the site now...
Wow what an excellent storage medium (Score:2)
I had a few t-shirts i could send in, but... (Score:1)
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Re:My Favorite, and a Good Resource (Score:1)
New Mexico Supercomputing Challenge (Score:1)
Apple shirts! (Score:1)
"error of type AM" (Score:2)
has a pseudo mac dialog box & says
Warning! Application programmer could not be
opened because of error of type AM!
it was advertising mactech magazine & you got it when you purchased a copy of code warrior...
Geek T-shirts forever! (Score:2)
code... (Score:1)
Moz.
Re:My Favorite, and a Good Resource (Score:1)
Re:history is in the sizes (Score:2)
wow! and to think you threw away a gleaming career in the Occult Arts of Divination to become a geek...
<smile/>
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Re:He's right, definitely on topic. (Score:1)
somebody mirror this (Score:2)
T-shirts (Score:2)
Re:history is in the sizes (Score:1)
Re:I had a few t-shirts i could send in, but... (Score:1)
So stop programming in that bloated OO language, streamline your code, enable strong typing, and by the way how do errors in your program logic make your t-shirts...
Re:My Favorite, and a Good Resource (Score:2)
Hemos, you muppet (Score:1)
I now 0wn Hemos@geekt.org. I am so l33t I scare myself. Yadda Yadda. (Oh, mom, do I *have to go to bed now?)
Chaz the l33t 3kr1p7 k1dd13.
how many... (Score:1)
you think they're gonna get scans of?
Been there, done that (Score:1)
They've even got a book out!
Re:He's right, definitely on topic. (Score:1)
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Re:c:\dos (Score:5)
C:\ONGRTLNS.W95
Oddly enough....i'm wearing it.... (Score:2)
It's a misprinted shirt: the stupid printer in the initial run printed the image on the back instead of the front, so it was printed again on the front.
It's the t-shirt sold as fundraising for a SF convention that has yet to happen (OdysseyCon 2001 [sf.org.nz].) A nice monolith w/stars and sunrise over a planetscape picture.
It just screams geeky to me - even if it's not part of history (yet).
IBM (Score:3)
Small World. (Score:1)
I had exchanged emails with lloyd a while ago about his harvey system (what geekt.org is using)
And now I see him submitting slashdot articles.
Soon I will be getting to know my neighbors better through slashdot.
Re:I want (Score:1)
Re:c:\dos (Score:1)
jred
www.cautioninc.com [cautioninc.com]
Re:Coolest one I had... (Score:1)
Made me Gig-gle though.
Re:My favorite geek t-shirt ... (Score:1)
Get it? Like Torvalds couldn't come up with a good OS, so he's reduced to using C# on Win2K. Since Linux has failed and Microsoft has won [techweb.com] and all...
What a weenie.
-B
Now expecting geekpolo.com and geekcap.com (Score:2)
Anyway, Internet History is a good thing, and I love to see it collected and displayed.
take it tux tshirt (Score:2)
http://www.rageout.net/takeittux.jpg
Lost to history (Score:1)
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Re:Oh boy, something to do with my.... (Score:1)
Too bad they didn't make one with the QuarterDuck though.
Who is Dennis Miller? (NT) (Score:1)
Re:My Favorite, and a Good Resource (Score:1)
Re:history is in the sizes (Score:1)
Re:As Brian Eno once said... (Score:1)
Re:He's a fucking homo!!!! (Score:1)
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evil adrian
What? No Joel Furr shirts? (Score:2)
Ah, the list goes on. (Anyone with these shirts and a digital camera wanna give these newbies a real "geek history through T-shirts" lesson?)
NCC and where are t-shirts prior to last 3-years? (Score:2)
I think the explosion of geek t-shirts as a mode of expression and a symbol of being part of the geek world has arisen largely within the last few years due to online shopping and the rush of coolness associated with obscure slogans, or *gasp* source code on your T-shirt.
Most shirts made prior to this cultural rush were internal shirts made for product launches (team morale), or promotional shirts from early trade shows. Those would be very interesting indeed -- not the nth-million Mozilla shirt. Big yawn. The site only had one T from pre 1990. Not very exciting.
I've got National Computer Camps t's from the mid-80's. Anyone else go to NCC, back when there were only 2 campsites (national my ass!
My company had an oldest product T-shirt contest a few years back. Somebody won with a shirt from the 80s... pit stains and all!
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Re:somebody mirror this (Score:2)
geekshirts (Score:2)
All designs are available in open formats for any use, you're welcome to print or even sell designs. All we ask is that derived designs are distributed under the same license.
new submission (Score:4)
Re:What about making your own? (Score:1)
here's a url:
http://www.stileproject.com/lls.html
eudas
IsItGeekOrNot (Score:1)
This needs some order (Score:5)
In general, slashcode [slashdot.org] is still designed as a linear news engine, not something like Everything [everydevel.org] designed more as a collaborative database being constantly revised in all directions. Still, the way they have geekt set up now, it seems to work just fine, so i wouldn't worry about that.
My only worry, though, is that unless they do some thinking ahead this site is not going to scale at ALL. Not because of shortcomings in slash; just because they haven't put any thought into what happens once this goes from some people sitting around and passing around pictures to a rather large database.
Specifically, every single posting seems way too isolated.
So, here are my humbly worthless two bits of advice to the maintainers of this page, should they read this article:
(by the way-- how hard would it be to rig together a "return random t-shirt entry" thing? that would be nifty :) )
All of this is, of course, assuming you're expecting for this to be something you seriously continue to update for a long time, and not something you work on for a few weeks, lose interest, and set it to drift (which is probably what would happen to it if I were in charge.. which is why it's a good thing i'm not in charge :) ).
So good luck, and fix those colours, boy!!
Re:What about making your own? (Score:4)
Linux General Store [linuxgeneralstore.com] sells t-shirts with this slogan on them, just click here to get one. [linuxgeneralstore.com]
I had three of these things, and one should be hanging around somewhere........it's my favorite shirt, and I even went to geeks with guns in one of these [tuxedo.org] (photo [tuxedo.org]).
Hope this helps.
ObJectBridge [sourceforge.net] (GPL'd Java ODMG) needs volunteers.
jobs, gassee, and appliances (Score:2)
from the blurb:
Jean-Louis Gassée had always thought the Macintosh needed an open architecture, like the Apple II computers, to make it successful. However, this conflicted with Steve Jobs' view of the Mac as an "appliance."
does anyone else find it interesting that steve spent most of yesterday hyping his new, partially open-source OS and spiffy new PCI-based G4's, and that john-louis now makes internet appliances?
made me laugh.
shirt quilts (Score:2)
shirts at county fairs and such. Seen some with
running race themes, politic slogan themes,
and travel themes. Why not get your girlfriend
to do a nerd theme?
Coincidence (Score:2)
My other favorites:
The Madelbrot set USENIX shirt (Cincinatti, I think)
The OSI network model with "Financial" and "Political" added at the top of the stack with an arrow pointing to "Political" and a label: "You are here"
And for recent additions, I think "got root?" takes it.
quilt (Score:2)
"I'm not a bitch, I just play one on
The Simpsons (Score:3)
C:\
C:\DOS
C:\DOS\RUN - RUN DOS RUN
Lisa laughed at this and remarked "Only one person in a million would find that funny!"
To which another of the geeks replied, "Yes, we call that the Dennis Miller ratio."
Long live The Simpsons!!
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Coolest one I had... (Score:2)
was also a pickup line for geeks:
Don't be afraid baby - I won't byte but I might nibble a bit or two...
It was cute at the time...
What about making your own? (Score:5)
I was surprised by the reaction to the shirt, it went over very well even among non-geeks.
I had been looking for one with the following quote: "Software is like sex, its better when its free." I can't find one anywhere so I think I will have to make my own. (Do it yourself, that's it!)