Google brings past LIFE to the future

GOOGLE IS EXCITED again, this time it’s for something quite high on the interesting scale – the availability of never before seen images from the LIFE photo archive.

This collection of newly digitised images shows photos and etchings which were produced and owned by LIFE Magazine dating back to the 1970s taking you back in time to moments previously kept in dusty archives.

Google wants to share these images with the rest of the world through its own image search, as only a handful of LIFE’s images have ever been published.

Since yesterday Google has added 20 percent of the collection online, yet in the next few months it will be busy digitalising around 10 million photos.

The images available are brought to you by LIFE photographers Alfred Eisenstaedt, Gjon Mili, and Nina Leen among other photography illuminaries.

To get at the pics you just need to add “source:life” to the search string – once you’re in the archive you can access a full-size version of the picture by clicking on it – furthermore if you like what you see you can order a framed print of it.

We thought we’d take you back in technology time with these little beauties.

(They built the first transistor)

(Steve Jobs with Apple II and dandy tache)

Classic. µ

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