This is an archival copy of my PhD blog, which was active between 2009–2015. I'm publishing it again as a personal time capsule, but also because I think it's an interesting documentation of the PhD process itself, which might be useful to someone, somewhere. – Chris Marmo, January 2026

Augmenting the new with the old

There seems to be a recent trend towards augmenting new services with nostalgic versions from less tech-y times – the above taken on an inner city suburban street in Melbourne; it invites people to take a token and SMS the code. Just because you can pull out the technology, doesn’t mean you should.

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