-
+2 +1
These awesome technologies just freakin' disappeared. Here's why.
Commercial skipping DVRs, we hardly knew ye and other tales of really good technology that vanished.
-
+8 +1
Mind Fields
No Vacation
-
+14 +1
Going Vintage: How and Why to Start Using Mac OS 9 Software
Instrumental in Apple's well-documented comeback from the brink of disaster was the launch of OS X, an operating system which seemed to herald a new age for Apple and since then, the Cupertino...
-
+15 +1
Carmen Sandiego, The Popular 1980s Cartoon Is Getting the Netflix Treatment
Will it be the next big Netflix hit?
-
+18 +1
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.
-
+21 +1
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....
-
+17 +1
NY77: The Coolest Year In Hell
Henry Corra
-
+22 +1
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.
-
+25 +1
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.
-
+4 +1
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.
-
+12 +1
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.
-
+18 +1
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.
-
+16 +1
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.
-
+15 +1
Retro-innovation: Features we miss from long-gone tech products
Forget about new stuff. We want our good old stuff back.
-
+10 +1
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.
-
+1 +1
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
-
+14 +1
Revisiting the Glory Days With One of Japan’s Most Violent Biker Gangs
Vice
-
+15 +1
Golden Brown
The Stranglers
-
+6 +1
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.
-
+16 +1
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.
Submit a link
Start a discussion