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The Inside Story of PC Magazine, PC World, and Macworld's Origins, as Told by David Bunnell
In the early 1990s, David wrote a proposal for a book about his life and adventures in publishing, covering the founding of PC Magazine, PC World, Macworld, and more. The book didn't happen, but the proposal is good reading in itself.
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10 Things Kids Don’t Know How to Do (and 5 Things They Know How to Do Better)
These kids today . . . know stuff we don’t.
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The World’s Last Internet Cafes
For a quarter century, internet cafes connected the world. Now they’re vanishing into history.
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Hayes Command Set History: The Tech That Dialed In a Million Modems
The obscure command set that gradually helped us move past acoustic couplers and brought dial-up modems into the mainstream. For a while, at least.
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We feel more nostalgic as we get older — but it’s not always a positive experience
By Emily Reynolds. Young adults reported nostalgia 60% less often than middle aged adults, while older adults reported nostalgia three times more than middle aged people.
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Why are game makers creating new Game Boy games in 2021?
Here's an unavoidable fact: the original Nintendo Game Boy is reaching middle age. The world may have moved on to sleeker, less bulky technology since Nintendo's first portable landed in shopping malls and mom-and-pop electronics stores back in 1989. But a number of developers are returning to the green hue of Nintendo's flagship handheld to explore new ideas for the platform, using the classics as a template.
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Life in Dataspace
A 1985 perspective on the shift of "home" from physical space to the network, rendering geographic location irrelevant and changing relationships.
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A History of Vintage Electronics: The Guglielmo Marconi Collection and the History of Wireless Communications
April 25 marks the birth of Guglielmo Marconi, the Italian electrical engineer who pioneered wireless communications. Today, we celebrate the International Marconi Day.
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Air Force finally retires 8-inch floppies from missile launch control system
"Solid state storage" replaces IBM Series/1's floppy drive.
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Inside the black (cherry) market of vintage Kool-Aid packet collectors
When you’re in the mood for Kool-Aid, you can walk into a grocery store and chose from about 20 different flavor packets all priced at about a quarter a piece. However, if you’re in the market for some quintessentially classic, high-grade, “Oh Yeah!”-era Kool-Aid, you’ll have to enter the fruit-flavored underbelly of one the most intriguing subsets in the world of pop culture food enthusiasts: the black market of vintage Kool-Aid packet collectors.
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Meet Your iPhone’s Grandparent
How the calculator morphed into the pocket computer—the predecessor of today’s smartphones
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The Cigarette Company That Reinvented Television News
Television's first news anchorman and modern-style broadcast were brought to you by the fine people at Camel cigarettes.
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The Lost Worlds of Telnet
Most people think of Telnet as "that thing I used to use to remotely access servers." But a few hearty souls are still keeping their Telnet services online — and it's a great way to experience some good old-fashioned time-wasting fun!
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Tupperware Parties: Suburban Women's Plastic Path to Empowerment
If you peeked into a suburban living room in the 1950s, you might see a group of women in funny hats playing party games, tossing lightweight plastic bowls back
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Early Copy of Super Mario Bros. Sells for Record-Setting $100,150
You might think spending $60 on a new AAA video game is a lot, but three video game enthusiasts just spent more than $100,000 on a single game, and they don't even plan to play it.
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Did Civil War Soldiers Have PTSD?
One hundred and fifty years later, historians are discovering some of the earliest known cases of post-traumatic stress disorder. By Tony Horwitz.
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Inside Computer Stores of the 70s and 80s
Rare scenes from the early days of personal computer shopping.
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From Ignored Ubiquity to Design Classic: the Art of the Blank VHS Tape
When Matthew Jones was a teenager, he would regularly purchase packs of blank VHS tapes at the Walgreens opposite his house, or sometimes at a local Blockbusters or nearby K-Mart. Like many of us who were around before the permanent sense of indecision catalyzed by on-demand, Jones grew up making of
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Revolution at 3.5″: Inside Vaporwave’s Mini-Boom of Floppy Disk Releases
Why the nostalgia-saturated labels subgenre is reviving the long abandoned format.
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Christopher Robin Official Trailer
Disney
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