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Old 8bit games remastered into HD quality
Sort of wish the old games of my childhood would be remastered into this caliber of graphics. This artist has some amazing talent! Linked his Deviantart profile in sources.
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The Death and Life of Great American GeoCities
At first glance, the blog Animated Text, with its neatly stacked rows of glittering, undulating, pixelated, neon-hued catchphrases, looks like a relic of the ’90s, an untouched time capsule from last-generation social sites like GeoCities. Cat Frazier, the 23-year-old graphic designer who runs it, calls the site a “guilty pleasure” that offers a giddy reprieve from her day job, designing for corporate clients and, therefore, working in the visual language of the present.
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What Technology Has Taken Away
I was thinking this morning about when I was a kid and we had “Saturday morning cartoons”. We looked forward to them all week. Now there are all kinds of cartoons available 24/7 and my kids don’t have the same weekly anticipation I did each week.
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Thunderbirds are go as TV series returns with a makeover after 50 years
ITV’s take on children’s favourite blends computer animation with models and miniature sets – and even the original voice of Parker is coming back
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Star Trek The Original Series Communicator Bluetooth Handset
They plan to have it available by January 2016... and I want it!
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SkiFree!
The Windows 95 Classic SkiFree can be downloaded as a .zip file! I tested this out, no viruses, no bullshit, just a badass game from Windows 95! Enjoy! :D
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Rodent's Revenge!
The Windows 95 Classic Rodents Revenge can be downloaded as a .JAR file! I tested this out, no viruses, no bullshit, just a badass game from Windows 95! Enjoy! :D
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3D Pinball: Space Cadet
The Windows XP Classic 3D Pinball: Space Cadet can be downloaded as a .MSI file! I tested this out, no viruses, no bullshit, just a badass game from Windows XP! Enjoy! :D (for those wondering, I'm out of old Windows operating system games to snap so it'll be a little while before I upload more, this, Rodents Revenge, and SkiFree are all up over at /t/Windows so grab a copy and play to your hearts content!
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The 1,000HP Gen III Hemi 1970 Dodge Challenger Dream Car
Despite how utterly badass Brook Niemi's 1,000hp 1970 Dodge Challenger may be, its cool factor still takes a backseat to the incredible story behind it!
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Commodore PET returns as a nostalgia-powered $312 Android phone
If the name "Commodore" conjures up images of clicking keyboards, beige boxes, and blinking command lines rather than buttery smooth ballads, this one's for you. Yes, that mainstay of '80s home computing is back, this time as a mobile phone. The Commodore PET—which shares its name with the iconic all-in-one computer released in 1977—might not run Commodore BASIC, but it does feature a customised version of Android 5.0 Lollipop...
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I’ll Give it to Mary With Love – and Other Songs Banned by the BBC
Nige recalls some vintage songs banned by the BBC – including some, like a ditty by Cliff Edwards – with good reason…
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Cassette Revolution: Why 1980s Tape Tech Is Still Making Noise in Our Digital World
“If you are putting music out on cassette, you are putting a weird Bat signal into the sky.”
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Classic BBC Two Shows - Celebrating 50 Years of BBC Two
A collection of photos from the most well-known shows in BBC Two's 50 year history
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Forget vinyl, cassette tapes are the hippest new format from the past
Vinyl records aren’t the only analog music media undergoing a revival in the modern era. A company that specializes in another nostalgic format — cassette tapes — just had its best year ever. Springfield, Missouri-based National Audio Company (NAC), which opened in 1969, produced 10 million tapes last year according to a Bloomberg. report. The company noted that cassette sales are up 20 percent year-over-year...
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The Future is Now - Back to the Future Part II is Pepsi Perfect
The future has finally arrived… and so has Pepsi Perfect. Coming soon!
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Vintage Air Travel – Swanky Examples of How We Used to Fly from the Mid-1950s to 1970s
Air travel wasn't always such an unpleasant chore. Here's a gallery of photographs that will make you long for the earlier days of flying.
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In the Coal Town of Helper, Baseball was More than a Pastime
Purportedly created by Abner Doubleday in Cooperstown, N. Y. in 1839, and set to rules by Alexander Cartwright in 1845, what would become our "national pastime" entered American life. In the rural mining and railroad town of Helper, Utah, it was that, and much more.
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2000s gaming speculated from 80s
How people in the 80's imagined gaming in the year 2000. They got a lot of it right!
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Before the Web: Online services of yesteryear
Before we were watching Netflix movies, video-conferencing with our friends, and playing real-time video games on the Internet, we were using online services, such AOL, CompuServe, and GEnie to talk about movies, type letters to our buddies, and play ASCII, turn-based games.
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Yesterday’s technologies, today’s problems
It sounded like a joke: An airport in 2015 closing down because of a Windows 3.1 crash. It was real, though, and not that funny — and similar problems are hiding in your company.
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