Moist Towelette Museum

Brendinooo•about 15 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...)

ThinkingGuy•about 14 hours ago

I had to look up that reference:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Community_characters#P...

Brendinooo•about 14 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."

ThinkingGuy•about 14 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.

rkozik1989•about 12 hours ago

Autism never sleeps.

PyWoody•about 14 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] https://web.archive.org/web/20050613084710/https://moisttowe...

[1] https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/moist-towelette-museum

brightbeige•about 9 hours ago

> Watch out, these are big files (for 1990's technology). About 1.6 megs each.

jddj•about 15 hours ago

Reminds me of this lovely book of Spanish restaurant serviettes: https://antennebooks.com/en-eu/products/servilletas-spanish-...

And another of beer coasters from the bars around Barcelona: https://antennebooks.com/en-eu/products/posavasos

ivan888•about 15 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: https://ivan.sh/biz-cards/

runamuck•about 13 hours ago

I heard Collectors Universe/ PSA will launch "Moist Towlette Grading" in the next quarter.

cmehdy•about 11 hours ago

Related (?) : https://airsicknessbags.com/

xg15•about 15 hours ago

Misunderstood that as "moist towel museum" first and was worried for a moment.

walrus01•about 15 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:

https://matchesmuseum.com/en/home/

xbar•about 15 hours ago

No Wash & Dry samples?

pseingatl•about 14 hours ago

Look harder.

dredmorbius•about 12 hours ago

Specifically: <https://moisttowelettemuseum.com/MVC-0044F.JPG>

mrbluecoat•about 13 hours ago

Ah, now it makes sense why my AI prompt last week for "Create a Spock moist towlette image" was so realistic.

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