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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.

Overcoming the fear of losing vehicles to crooked customers, the drive-it-yourself industry boomed after World War II.

For one brief shining moment, Yahoo was the king of all it surveyed. Then everything went to hell.

Check out these late-1920s vintage advertisements from RCA, when their Radiola was all the rage.

The University of Texas at Austin has a huge collection of film posters from the 20th century, and they’re being digitized.

We take a quick look at the major events and pop culture highlights in a pivotal year in American history.

The Stranglers

Vice

A decade before the Internet went mainstream, French citizens were interacting via Minitel, a computer network open to anyone with a telephone

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.

Forget about new stuff. We want our good old stuff back.

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.

BLT (light on mayo), 2 eggs over easy, or extinction? Watching and lamenting the massive diner die-off. By Adam Platt.

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.

Going all the way back to 1976, Colossal Cave Adventure, one of the first computer games, has been reborn in an open-source incarnation.

Visually mesmerizing, intellectually engaging, and nearly decommodified, screensavers reveled in a stillness and rapture that’s gone missing in technology. By Zack Hatfield.

Inside the ridiculous media panic that scared parents silly. By Michael Z. Newman.

Henry Corra

A lot of people I run into have all kinds of misconceptions about what pulp-era scifi, from the 1920s-1950s, was actually like....