As you walk into the Duke Library, you might notice a few dinosaurs. A new foyer display titled “Jurassic Tech” features a selection of old or obsolete technology. The display, created by Rick Jones and Kathie Sloan in the Digital Collections Center, provides a fun and interesting exploration of how cameras, music and audio devices, video recorders, and phones have changed over the decades. Some of the items will likely be familiar to students like early generation iPods and LPs /vinyl, but others may not be like microfilm, slides, or reel-to-reel.
Stop by and see these tech dinosaurs. The display will be available for viewing through December of 2024.
Check out the photos below of Jurassic Tech at Furman in its prime.
