Pulp Librarian (@PulpLibrarian)’s best Twitter threads.
Many readers have asked me "why do so many pulp covers feature women in ripped red blouses standing in swamps while a man fights off an unusual animal attack?"
The answer is artist Will Hulsey... pic.twitter.com/2xY60yqiDD
Will Hulsey was the undisputed king of the animal attack pulp cover. You name it, he'd paint it attacking you in a pool of stagnant water. pic.twitter.com/nJ30Jiu3hP
Very little is known about Will Hulsey, but he worked on a number of men's pulp magazines in the 1950s and early 1960s including Man's Life, True Men, Guilty, Trapped and Peril. pic.twitter.com/LfE4xDaJjs
According to Accenture we now need to build an #InternetofTrust, because the old one we grew up with is fundamentally broken.
Dude, it's never been unbroken. Let me explain... pic.twitter.com/hjAAcOi6PQ
The internet is huge, and ever since its creation people have been trying to hack it. It's not very secure, a lot of its infrastructure is old and we're all pretty careless on security: fertile ground for mischief, or worse... pic.twitter.com/uXjZjjSVj5
Now the term 'hacker' is from the 1960s and originally meant someone who was very good at FORTRAN: they could literally 'hack' doing all the coding! Nowadays it's applied to anyone who subverts computer security, or wears sunglasses indoors. pic.twitter.com/SW2kmbYwQq
View-Master: it sold over one billion reels across the world, but it's based on Victorian technology. How did one simple gadget get to be so popular?
This is the View-Master story...#FridayFeeling pic.twitter.com/9KGmjI0FPU
Stereographs are cards with two nearly identical photographs mounted side by side. Viewed through a binocular device they give an illusion of depth. By 1858 the London Stereoscopic and Photographic Company had published over 100,000 of them. pic.twitter.com/G9cugjaaVe
Sawyer's Photo Finishing Service began in 1919 in Portland, Oregon. By 1936 they had teamed up with William Gruber, who had been experimenting with stereoscope photography using the new Kodachrome colour film. pic.twitter.com/NaYkId36aT