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StoneRed

The StoneRed project (SR) is a wide-area curiosity retrieval initiative aiming to give universal access to one interesting document per day.

Everything there is online about SR is linked directly or indirectly to this document, including an executive summary of the project, the document archive, today's SR news and other appearances.

Today's document: The one interesting thing for Tuesday, October 6, 2026.
What's out there?: Pointers to every previous document, by subject and date.
Arbitrary document: Retrieves a document at random. Results not guaranteed.
Bored: A recommendation, for users with nothing to do.
Exhibition: Pictures, by artists both dead and very dead. Viewing requires imagination.
Case files: Unsolved matters. Restricted to users with a magnifying glass.
Motion pictures: Moving images. Download time at 9600 baud: approximately one geological era.
Bulletin board: Pictures and sounds posted by other users of this system.
Your documents: Documents kept on this machine.
Audio: Experimental. Requires a loudspeaker and the patience of a saint.
Help: Change how documents are displayed. Recommended for users arriving from the future.

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You came here to read one thing. You left knowing something you didn't know before.THE INTERNET'S MOST UNNECESSARILY INTERESTING DAILY READING MATERIAL

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The Screening Room / Music, Art & Counterculture

BBS: The Documentary

2005 · Episodes playlist · Colour

[FILM: BBS: The Documentary, 2005]

Before the web, people ran bulletin board systems from home computers on phone lines. An eight-part history of that lost online world, by the archivist Jason Scott.

Streaming from the Internet Archive. See the original item, downloads and licence ↗

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COLOUR112 min Something from Nothing: The Art of Rap2012 · Ice-T (via Shout! Studios)

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COLOUR59 min Good Copy Bad Copy2007 · Andreas Johnsen, Ralf Christensen & Henrik Moltke (Creative Commons)

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