Norwegian Student Takes Secret Street Photos In The 1890s • Hacker News Board

Re: Norwegian Student Takes Secret Street Photos In The 1890s

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Post by fyfy18 » Tue, Jan 02, 2018, 4:58 PM UTC

dangerboysteve wrote: post #4

It's actually nice to see people smiling in these old photos. Something that was absent in posed photos of those days.

I was thinking the same. I wonder if he knew them or they are strangers. I grew up in a village and if you saw someone, even if you didn't know them (although you knew most people), you'd say hello, but it's strange to imagine that happening in a city today.

Re: Norwegian Student Takes Secret Street Photos In The 1890s

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Post by maho » Tue, Jan 02, 2018, 5:01 PM UTC

Whenever I see pictures from the pre-WW1-era I marvel at the shoes people wore back then. From the outside they appear comfortable, sturdy, and elegant. I wonder which would be more comfortable to wear -- hand-made, customized shoes from a 1900's-inspired, experienced shoemaker, or modern, mass-produced sneakers (which are pretty comfortable to begin with).

Re: Norwegian Student Takes Secret Street Photos In The 1890s

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Post by xexers » Tue, Jan 02, 2018, 5:06 PM UTC

robertelder wrote: post #3

I visited this page two times and it caused my browser to download a file called 'n5hm6dsspmjfor3d5akscs.gz' and then another called 'rblsat02tsnsr899bpjig2.gz'.

Same here

Re: Norwegian Student Takes Secret Street Photos In The 1890s

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Post by kposehn » Tue, Jan 02, 2018, 5:10 PM UTC

OP here - apologies all, looks like this should have been the BoredPanda url in retrospect. Funny enough, I thought BoredPanda was a social click farm by the name and when I went to MyModernMet I had no issues.

@Mods can we change the link to: https://www.boredpanda.com/spy-camera-secret-street-photogra...

Re: Norwegian Student Takes Secret Street Photos In The 1890s

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Post by waltwalther » Tue, Jan 02, 2018, 5:16 PM UTC

robertelder wrote: post #3

I visited this page two times and it caused my browser to download a file called 'n5hm6dsspmjfor3d5akscs.gz' and then another called 'rblsat02tsnsr899bpjig2.gz'.

Same. The site attempted to download multiple files to my machine. Beware of this site. I did not examine the files, only deleted them.

Re: Norwegian Student Takes Secret Street Photos In The 1890s

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Post by waltwalther » Tue, Jan 02, 2018, 5:16 PM UTC

stuaxo wrote: post #8

WTH, as I scroll down the page I get loads of dialogues saying firefox has downloaded different cryptically named gzip files.

Same here. Several people have commented same. Site may have been compromised.

Re: Norwegian Student Takes Secret Street Photos In The 1890s

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Post by maxxxxx » Tue, Jan 02, 2018, 5:19 PM UTC

maho wrote: post #12

Whenever I see pictures from the pre-WW1-era I marvel at the shoes people wore back then. From the outside they appear comfortable, sturdy, and elegant. I wonder which would be more comfortable to wear -- hand-made, customized shoes from a 1900's-inspired, experienced shoemaker, or modern, mass-produced sneakers (which are pretty comfortable to begin with).

I don't know how the 1900 shoes but I much prefer good leather shoes over sneakers.

Re: Norwegian Student Takes Secret Street Photos In The 1890s

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Post by aresant » Tue, Jan 02, 2018, 5:24 PM UTC

For the Bay Area contingent, a similar series of candid photographs taken by Walker Evans in the 1940s - 60s is one of the current MOMA exhibitions if you're looking for an excuse

Re: Norwegian Student Takes Secret Street Photos In The 1890s

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Post by esMazer » Tue, Jan 02, 2018, 5:26 PM UTC

stuaxo wrote: post #8

WTH, as I scroll down the page I get loads of dialogues saying firefox has downloaded different cryptically named gzip files.

not in chrome

Re: Norwegian Student Takes Secret Street Photos In The 1890s

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Post by aceofspad4s » Tue, Jan 02, 2018, 5:28 PM UTC

robertelder wrote: post #3

I visited this page two times and it caused my browser to download a file called 'n5hm6dsspmjfor3d5akscs.gz' and then another called 'rblsat02tsnsr899bpjig2.gz'.

I did not get anything like that. Are you sure your ad blocker is up to date?