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Traumatic License: An Oral History of Action Park
From 1978 to 1996, New Jersey hosted a ride-at-your-own-risk water park that earned it the nickname “Class Action Park.” By Jake Rossen.
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The Auto Rental Is Born (1952)
Overcoming the fear of losing vehicles to crooked customers, the drive-it-yourself industry boomed after World War II.
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The Glory That Was Yahoo
For one brief shining moment, Yahoo was the king of all it surveyed. Then everything went to hell.
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Vintage Advertisements: RCA’s 1920s Radios
Check out these late-1920s vintage advertisements from RCA, when their Radiola was all the rage.
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You Can Now Download Thousands of Vintage Movie Posters in High Resolution
The University of Texas at Austin has a huge collection of film posters from the 20th century, and they’re being digitized.
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America in 1968: An Overview in 17 Quotes
We take a quick look at the major events and pop culture highlights in a pivotal year in American history.
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Golden Brown
The Stranglers
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Revisiting the Glory Days With One of Japan’s Most Violent Biker Gangs
Vice
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Minitel: The Online World France Built Before the Web
A decade before the Internet went mainstream, French citizens were interacting via Minitel, a computer network open to anyone with a telephone
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The early history of HP calculators
A calculator collector reflects on the early 1970s, when HP's programmable calculators revolutionized the everyday work of engineers, technicians, and financial professionals. Oh, and computer scientists, too.
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Retro-innovation: Features we miss from long-gone tech products
Forget about new stuff. We want our good old stuff back.
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Halt and Catch Fire's final season inspires nostalgia for the early days of the internet
The long cords extend from the phones they’re attached to, spiraling in neat little curves. The people talking on those phones have to always be conscious of them, to navigate them as they chat for hours on end.
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What’ll It Be for the New York Diner?
BLT (light on mayo), 2 eggs over easy, or extinction? Watching and lamenting the massive diner die-off. By Adam Platt.
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Why Aren’t You Laughing?
There was my sunny, likable mother, and there was the dark one who’d call late at night. Should we have intervened when her drinking got out of hand? By David Sedaris.
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One of the first computer games is born again in open source
Going all the way back to 1976, Colossal Cave Adventure, one of the first computer games, has been reborn in an open-source incarnation.
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Salvation Mode
Visually mesmerizing, intellectually engaging, and nearly decommodified, screensavers reveled in a stillness and rapture that’s gone missing in technology. By Zack Hatfield.
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Children of the ‘80s Never Fear: Video Games Did Not Ruin Your Life
Inside the ridiculous media panic that scared parents silly. By Michael Z. Newman.
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NY77: The Coolest Year In Hell
Henry Corra
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Top Misconceptions People Have about Pulp-Era Science Fiction
A lot of people I run into have all kinds of misconceptions about what pulp-era scifi, from the 1920s-1950s, was actually like....
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Why do your musical tastes get frozen over in your twenties?
One grim day (when youth is over) you find that new music gets on your nerves. But why do our musical tastes freeze over? By Lary Wallace.
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