When I first left my job at Microsoft a couple years ago, I went through the process of scanning all the postcards I received from my JPEGView days. I then put them online and started the process of OCRing and tagging them.
I got through about half (3000/6000) before I kind of petered out, but still put up https://postcardware.net with what I had, along with a Mastodon bot npub1atvwpjggrnv5ttaf5f9wj6rh8cdxjagf2xn9jlu7xsyc6fcvarlsvmeecc (npub1atv…eecc) that you can follow for 3x daily samples.
Since the beginning of this year, I've started working through the remainder, and just crossed the 3500 threshold. I just refreshed the database, so if you visit postcardware.net you'll be able to browse the current lot.
Onward to 4000!
Aaron Giles /
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2024-01-26 07:17:50
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2024-01-26 07:17:50Event JSON
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