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Show HN: A zoomable, searchable archive of BYTE magazine

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401 points chromy | 2 comments | 26 Aug 25 15:34 UTC | HN request time: 0.561s | source

A while ago I was looking for information on a obscure and short lived British computer.

I found an article[1] in the archives of BYTE magazine[2] - and was captivated immediately by the tech adverts of bygone eras.

This led to a long side project to be able to see all 100k pages of BYTE in a single searchable place.

[1]: https://byte.tsundoku.io/#198502-381

[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17683184

1. mbirth ◴[26 Aug 25 16:47 UTC] No.45029082[source]▶
Wow, that’s the first digital Microfiche implementation I’ve seen. Well done!
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2. catapart ◴[26 Aug 25 18:26 UTC] No.45030362[source]▶
Same! This is really awesome! I'm hoping it's generalizeable enough to do with something like Game Informer, or other magazines. Seems like the underlying tech is just "load unreasonably sized images without performance issues" which feels plenty generalizeable, as a framework. So the question is in how complex or tedious it is to get every page into a single image (or whatever format these are loaded as), in a catalogued way.

Regardless, this is just a really fantastic example of this whole kind of project, and the fact that it was done with BYTE is the cherry on top.