Douglas E. Welch<p>Vanishing Culture: Punch Card Knitting | Internet Archive Blogs</p><p>Punch cards are a fascinating binary data storage format that aren’t just history—they’re still used by knitting machines today! Thanks to the Internet Archive and other collections, we still have access to historic punch cards, but there are some technical challenges to using them in the format they’re stored in. Meet a few folx working on those challenges. </p><p><a href="https://welchwrite.com/blog/2025/04/30/vanishing-culture-punch-card-knitting-via-internet-archive-blogs-shared/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">welchwrite.com/blog/2025/04/30</span><span class="invisible">/vanishing-culture-punch-card-knitting-via-internet-archive-blogs-shared/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/history" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>history</span></a> <a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/knit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>knit</span></a> <a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/knitting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>knitting</span></a> <a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/technology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>technology</span></a> <a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/punchcard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>punchcard</span></a> <a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/fashion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fashion</span></a> <a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/machinery" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>machinery</span></a> <a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/programming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>programming</span></a> <a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/shared" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>shared</span></a> </p><p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://fuzzies.wtf/@altbot" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>altbot</span></a></span></p>