Signals, local reports, language, time, and the useful parts nobody thought to index together.
One press. One place. A signal and five reports.
Discover the light, markets, movement and customs of a place.
DEAD AIR / INTERACTIVEFinal frequencies. Surviving recordings. A map of vanished signals.
ON THE ROADTravel journals, photo albums, and things worth remembering.
01 / LIVESearch the globe. Press a station. It plays here.
02 / FIVE AT A TIMELocal reporting beside a machine translation.
03 / LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICSLanguage practice, writing systems, and a growing home for studying language.
04 / EVERYDAY TOOLSConvert currencies with a dated weekly reference-rate snapshot.
OPENING THE TAPE BOX…
Search the afterlife of a station, feed, or local site. Keep its last address, place, disappearance date, and what survived.
AUWEN reference entry. Google announced retirement for 1 July 2013 and offered subscription export during its sunset period. The original announcement survives; it is not a working Reader login. Archival question: can you identify the feed URL independently of the app used to read it?
LAST ADDRESSAUWEN reference entry. Google’s notice said consumer account shutdown and content deletion would begin on 2 April 2019. This record concerns the consumer service, not every later enterprise product. A surviving shutdown notice documents the service’s end; it does not restore an individual’s posts.
LAST ADDRESSAUWEN reference entry. NIST records that the north antenna now used by WWVB was built for the 20 kHz WWVL broadcast, discontinued in 1972. Distinguish the vanished service from equipment later reused for another one. The surviving source describes the infrastructure; this is not an off-air recording.
LAST ADDRESSFamiliar word, different meaning. Expand an entry for context.
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Watch the resemblance to English “actual” meaning real.
Ist dieser Fahrplan aktuell?
For real, use echt or wirklich as the sentence requires.
At a station this asks whether the information is current, not whether the paper is genuine.
Language reference ↗Watch the resemblance to English “eventually” meaning in the end.
Wir kommen eventuell später.
For in the end, schließlich or letztendlich may fit.
The arrival is uncertain; this does not promise that waiting long enough guarantees it.
Language reference ↗Watch the resemblance to English “also” meaning too.
Der Bus fährt nicht, also nehmen wir ein Taxi.
For too or also, use auch.
Here also introduces a consequence. The finite verb nehmen follows it, then the subject wir.
Language reference ↗Watch the resemblance to English “bald” meaning without hair.
Der Zug kommt bald.
For bald-headed, use kahl or glatzköpfig as appropriate.
Soon does not give a precise departure time. Ask Um wie viel Uhr? if you need a clock time.
Language reference ↗Watch the resemblance to English “magazine”.
Merg la magazin.
For a magazine to read, use revistă.
A magazin alimentar is a food shop. The resemblance does not tell you what is being sold.
Language reference ↗Watch the resemblance to English “eventually”.
Putem lua eventual un taxi.
For “in the end,” use până la urmă or în cele din urmă, as context requires.
It signals possibility, not a promise that something will happen after enough time.
Language reference ↗Translate Romanian eventual and librărie; German bekommen, aktuell, eventuell, also and bald. Explain the misleading English resemblance.
Romanian: possibly; bookshop. German: get/receive; current/up to date; possibly; so/therefore; soon. Apply each in a sentence rather than translating by spelling alone.
Choose two filed moments to place them side by side. Matching dates are useful, but strange collisions are allowed.
SELECT TWO MOMENTS BELOW.
Search small useful corners by place or language, then leave AUWEN only when you choose a result.
AUWEN reference entry. Start with the regional transport authority’s journey planner, then verify the ticket zones and current service notices for that journey. A timetable result and a valid ticket are separate things. This entry links to the live authority rather than freezing a fare or departure time in a travel note.
OPENAUWEN reference entry. Use the official English passenger site for station information, route maps, fares and service status. Tokyo Metro is one operator within a larger rail network; a route can involve another operator. Match the operator and station name before deciding what ticket covers the trip.
OPENAUWEN reference entry. CERN’s preservation project gives a small, concrete entry into the Web’s early infrastructure: the project’s own information page and its original purpose. Follow the restored-site link from CERN’s history page. A restored version is an archival representation, not proof that every original page or interaction survived.
OPENFollow an idea in date order. Each record is one stop; its source address remains attached.
AUWEN reference entry. March 1989: Tim Berners-Lee proposed an information-management system at CERN. This chain follows one documented project through proposal, implementation and release; it does not claim that all earlier hypertext ideas originated here.
SOURCEAUWEN reference entry. December 1990: CERN’s timeline records a working browser/editor, server and website on a NeXT computer. An implemented protocol and a running server turn a proposal into something another person can use. Follow the source timeline to keep the stages distinct.
SOURCEAUWEN reference entry. 30 April 1993: CERN released World Wide Web software into the public domain; a later release used an open licence. This is a software-release milestone, not the invention date of the Internet. Check the terms and the specific release when tracing how technology travels.
SOURCEPlay bells, clocks, IDs, and announcements when an audio address is available; otherwise open the source record.
AUWEN reference entry. NIST’s Fort Collins station broadcasts time and frequency information on several HF frequencies, including 5, 10 and 15 MHz. Reception depends on propagation, place and time; a listed frequency does not guarantee reception. Open the station’s primary record for its format and outage links. No recording is embedded here.
OPENAUWEN reference entry. WWVB distributes digital time codes on a 60 kHz carrier. Radio-controlled clocks decode data rather than listen to a spoken announcement. Do not confuse a 60 kHz radio carrier with an audible tone. The source explains both legacy pulse-width and newer phase-modulated formats.
OPENAUWEN reference entry. NICT describes the JJY standard-frequency and time-signal service, including the Ohtakadoya-yama and Hagane-yama stations. Use the primary page to distinguish the 40 kHz and 60 kHz transmissions and their locations. This is a source record for studying time distribution, not a live reception report.
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