no YOU got distracted by a wiki while researching your own AskMe

October 1, 2019 12:50 PM

HighwayWiki is a work-in-progress collection of "facts and pictures about each and every known traffic signal and accessory, including their respective companies, dates produced, and related brands and models."
posted by cortex (10 comments total)

THIS IS A WORK IN PROGRESS is so close to a proper vintage Under Construction image, it just needs to rotate or flash.

[See also: EVERY UNDER CONSTRUCTION GIF FROM THE 1990s - takes a moment to load; via Vice, who interviewed Jason Scott about his collection]
posted by filthy light thief at 12:57 PM on October 1, 2019

Including the little known 'so you bought yourself a traffic light'?
posted by RandomInconsistencies at 12:57 PM on October 1, 2019 [2 favorites]

This is extremely my seven-year-old's jam. Bookmarking.
posted by soren_lorensen at 1:40 PM on October 1, 2019 [1 favorite]

Portland Orange is the new Pepsi Blue?
posted by jenkinsEar at 1:54 PM on October 1, 2019

I don't know what it says about me that my eye was instantly drawn to "Horni Signal Mfg. Corp."
posted by JDHarper at 1:56 PM on October 1, 2019 [2 favorites]

JDHarper, you realize that implies that one or more towns may have installed Horni on Main?
posted by cortex at 2:14 PM on October 1, 2019 [7 favorites]

I have so many questions about who is behind this. I also have major quibbles with how they classify stuff (I mean... the MUTCD is not an administration!), but I love the effort and devotion to traffic control devices.
posted by kendrak at 3:14 PM on October 1, 2019 [1 favorite]

I was thinking of buying a CRT for my retrogaming rig but then I thought, what if I just had one pixel and it was really really big and heavy
posted by RobotVoodooPower at 5:23 PM on October 1, 2019 [4 favorites]

I was thinking of buying a CRT for my retrogaming rig but then I thought, what if I just had one pixel and it was really really big and heavy?

You could have a mechanical one and it would be even more retro.

posted by Gilgamesh's Chauffeur at 6:52 PM on October 1, 2019

nixie pixel ok
posted by away for regrooving at 12:04 AM on October 2, 2019