Moist Towelette Museum

(moisttowelettemuseum.com)

76 points by bookofjoe4 days ago

11 comments

Brendinooo14 hours ago
Pierce Hawthorne, is that you?!?(Given that he audited classes for years, this very much strikes me as a class project based on his interests...)
- ThinkingGuy13 hours ago
 I had to look up that reference:<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Community_characters#Pierce_Hawthorne" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Community_characters#P...</a>
 - Brendinooo13 hours ago
 There's an episode called "Digital Estate Planning" where his dad mocks him for his lack of business acumen: "In 1980, you said that video games, not moist towelettes, were the business of the future. Today, moist towelettes are stocked in every supermarket, while arcade after arcade closes."
ThinkingGuy13 hours ago
This reminds me something my the teacher of my university public speaking class told us (in the context of doing research): No matter how trivial, esoteric or obscure the topic, there is someone on earth who has devoted their entire career to studying it.
- rkozik198911 hours ago
  Autism never sleeps.
PyWoody13 hours ago
Wow, almost unchanged from 2005[0]. Impressive. I miss the weird web.EDIT: Here's an Atlas Obscura article about the museum itself[1].[0] <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20050613084710/https://moisttowelettemuseum.com/" rel="nofollow">https://web.archive.org/web/20050613084710/https://moisttowe...</a>[1] <a href="https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/moist-towelette-museum" rel="nofollow">https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/moist-towelette-museum</a>
- brightbeige8 hours ago
 > Watch out, these are big files (for 1990's technology). About 1.6 megs each.
jddj14 hours ago
Reminds me of this lovely book of Spanish restaurant serviettes: <a href="https://antennebooks.com/en-eu/products/servilletas-spanish-napkins" rel="nofollow">https://antennebooks.com/en-eu/products/servilletas-spanish-...</a>And another of beer coasters from the bars around Barcelona: <a href="https://antennebooks.com/en-eu/products/posavasos" rel="nofollow">https://antennebooks.com/en-eu/products/posavasos</a>
ivan88814 hours ago
I find myself holding onto and preserving general ephemera and just happened to scan a moist towelette package over the weekend. My collection mostly consists of business cards and dry cleaning type carbon copy receipts. I need to better catalogue these and share online. A few business cards: <a href="https://ivan.sh/biz-cards/" rel="nofollow">https://ivan.sh/biz-cards/</a>
runamuck12 hours ago
I heard Collectors Universe/ PSA will launch "Moist Towlette Grading" in the next quarter.
cmehdy10 hours ago
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xg1514 hours ago
Misunderstood that as "moist towel museum" first and was worried for a moment.
walrus0114 hours ago
Re: the moist towelettes, I love that the person who runs this website hasn't seen any need to change the HTML design since probably 1997.See also, matchbook and matchbox museum:<a href="https://matchesmuseum.com/en/home/" rel="nofollow">https://matchesmuseum.com/en/home/</a>
xbar14 hours ago
No Wash & Dry samples?
- pseingatl13 hours ago
 Look harder.
 - dredmorbius11 hours ago
 Specifically: <<a href="https://moisttowelettemuseum.com/MVC-0044F.JPG" rel="nofollow">https://moisttowelettemuseum.com/MVC-0044F.JPG</a>>
mrbluecoat12 hours ago
Ah, now it makes sense why my AI prompt last week for "Create a Spock moist towlette image" was so realistic.