// Museums

Retro media.
Catalogued.

Five museums — CD/DVD, MiniDisc, Phreak Phone, Tape, Floppy. An archive of the formats the internet forgot. Capacity charts, duplicator specs, nostalgia phones, format wars, sunset timelines. Everything the Wikipedia article doesn't have time for.

5
Museums live
28
Museum pages
1963
Earliest format
62
Years of media
// Collection

The five museums.

Each museum opens its original retro-green page -- the aesthetic is preserved on purpose.

MUS-001
1982 – present · 8 pages

CD / DVD Museum

From Red Book spec through M-DISC. A full history of optical media -- capacity charts, duplicator hardware, sunset timelines, and modern archival uses.

History · Sunset timeline · Duplicators · Capacity reference · Modern uses
Enter
MUS-002
1963 – present · 5 pages

Phreak Phone Museum

Blue boxes through the Motorola RAZR. The culture that invented hacking -- network shutdowns, nostalgia phones, and a deep dive on the RAZR V3.

Phreak history · Network shutdowns · Nostalgia phones · RAZR V3
Enter
MUS-003
1963 – present

Tape Museum

Format-by-format walk through magnetic media. Cassette, 8-track, DAT, VHS, Beta, DigiBeta, MiniDV -- what survived, what didn't, and why.

Cassette · 8-track · DAT · VHS · Beta · DigiBeta · MiniDV
Enter
MUS-004
1992 – 2013

MiniDisc Museum

A 20-year format war told in full -- the one Sony never quite won. ATRAC encoding, NetMD, Hi-MD, portable player hardware, and the full Sony story.

ATRAC · NetMD · Hi-MD · Portable players · The Sony story
Enter
MUS-005
1971 – ~2011

Floppy Disk Museum

Every floppy format, capacity, and drive ever made -- plus the bizarre side-quests: DMF compression, FlipFloppy double-density hacks, bootable installers.

8" · 5.25" · 3.5" · Zip · Superdisk · Jaz
Enter

Coming soon.

Candidates on the shortlist: Game Cartridge Museum (Atari through DS), Modem Museum (300-baud through DSL), Pager Museum (1950s–2000s), Typewriter & Word Processor Museum. Priority set by reader interest. If one calls to you, send word.

Suggest a museum → Contribute artefacts →