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Our Misplaced Nostalgia for Cassette Tapes
The cassette is the embodiment of planned obsolescence. Each time you play one it degrades. Bad sound gets worse. Casings crack in winter, melt in summer. Inescapably, a cassette tape unspools: It’s only destiny. Fine, death comes to us all. But just because we can anthropomorphize a gadget doesn’t give it a soul.
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Mold-A-Rama: An Affordable Art Machine That’s Survived Half a Century
In zoos, museums, and other attractions around the United States, visitors can still get a retro souvenir for just a couple of bucks.
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Your Favorite 80s and 90s Cartoon Themes Like You’ve Never Heard Them
YouTube user Triforcefilms has created a playlist of all of your favorite Saturday morning cartoons and shows, all performed a capella style. Performing under the name Mr Dooves, his talent is apparent and his catalog of knowledge is vast. I’ve
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19 year old Scottish developer gets Windows 95 running in a web browser
Using no downloads, no special software, or no plugins, a 19 year old developer in Scotland managed to get Windows 95 running in a web browser using emscriptem, a emulator that converts C++ code to JavaScript in real time.
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The full run of If magazine, scanned at the Internet Archive
The Internet Archive's amazing Pulp Magazine Archive includes all 176 issues of If, a classic science fiction magazine that ran from 1952 to 1974.
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Are You Keeping Up With The Commodore?
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They’re Ideal: Three Amazing Toys of the 1960s Designed by Marvin Glass
In The Chicago Tribune on November 5, 1961, the late Marvin Glass (1914-1974) was termed the “reigning king of toy designers.”
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Secrets of the penny candy jar: From Tootsie Rolls to Necco wafers, the real story behind every nostalgic treat
Whether you loved Milk Duds, Pixy Stix, the Circus Peanut or the Charleston Chew, these histories are sweet
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Paradise Regained
Simon Barnes on “My Family & Other Animals” by Gerald Durrell.
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This Best Buy Flyer from 1994 Shows How Fast Technology Has Changed
For as long as I can remember, consumer electronics retailer Best Buy has published their weekly flyer. There was always something on sale and if they managed to get you in-store, the flyer had done its job. Earlier this week, redditor /u/sheahofosho scanned an old Best Buy flyer from the week of October 23, 1994 and it really shows how fast technology has changed in 20 short years. You’ll find walkmans, VCRs, CDs, and camcorders; but what gets me are...
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‘Stranger Things’ Is Terrifyingly Good 80s Nostalgia (Spoilers Ahead!)
Human beings inhabit at least three parallel worlds in the course of a lifetime. There's childhood, the teenage hellscape, and the confused territory of adulthood. The child makes unique sense of its environment, taking cues from movies and television; the teen apes its peers; and the adult improvises with the remnants of both, which we call nostalgia. In the early 1980s, when the excellent, desperately nostalgic Netflix series Stranger Things is set, children watched E. T. the Extra-Terrestrial; teenagers flocked to see Tom Cruise in All the Right Moves; and adults had the good-humored horror picture Poltergeist.
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Heuristic: Nostalgia, networks, and nuance of Pokémon Go
On the cultural phenomena of Pokémon Go
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Rocket Slides and Monkey Bars: Chasing the Vanishing Playgrounds of Our Youth
“I looked around the playground and thought, ‘Where is all the equipment that I remember growing up on?’ They had new plastic contraptions, but nothing like the big metal slides I grew up with....” By Lisa Hix.
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Stranger Things doesn't just reference '80s movies. It captures how it feels to watch them.
As I was watching Netflix’s spooky new drama Stranger Things, a friend asked me how the show was. "It’s scary!" I said, then quickly realized that wasn’t quite accurate and qualified the statement accordingly: "It’s scary in the way that Poltergeist is scary when you stumble across it on TV when you’re 8." And that response, I think, is the key to Stranger Things’ success. The show is an elaborate collection of homages and references to '80s movies, and most works made via collage can’t help but feel like fuzzy copies of the originals — perhaps made on a ditto machine (to nod toward the series’ '80s small-town setting).
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Power Rangers (2017) announces Bill Hader as Alpha 5
See this Instagram photo by @powerrangersmovie • 13.8k likes
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Breathing Holes
“The night after the second story was published, I got choked unconscious at my friend’s place in Iqaluit House—in the same apartment, it turned out, where a young man had removed his head with a shotgun blast months earlier…” By Lisa Gregoire.
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On Nostalgia
“I suspect that my father made a choice, and it meant concealing the past in order to live, with presence, in the present.” By Elizabeth Evitts Dickinson.
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The Sweet, Gooey History of Marshmallow Fluff
How the sticky confection became fluffernutter-famous
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Dresden retirement home recreates communist East Germany to help residents with Alzheimer’s
“Many of them have started eating independently again, they go to the toilet on their own, even some who were bed-ridden have got up.” By Justin Huggler.
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10 fun tech ads through the years
80 Mbytes of storage for less than $12,000! boasts one ad. In another, a woman in hot pants touts a modem that's "maybe even sexy." These were too much fun not to share.
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