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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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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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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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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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Christopher Robin Official Trailer
Disney
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Revolution at 3.5″: Inside Vaporwave’s Mini-Boom of Floppy Disk Releases
Why the nostalgia-saturated labels subgenre is reviving the long abandoned format.
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From Ignored Ubiquity to Design Classic: the Art of the Blank VHS Tape
When Matthew Jones was a teenager, he would regularly purchase packs of blank VHS tapes at the Walgreens opposite his house, or sometimes at a local Blockbusters or nearby K-Mart. Like many of us who were around before the permanent sense of indecision catalyzed by on-demand, Jones grew up making of
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Inside Computer Stores of the 70s and 80s
Rare scenes from the early days of personal computer shopping.
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Did Civil War Soldiers Have PTSD?
One hundred and fifty years later, historians are discovering some of the earliest known cases of post-traumatic stress disorder. By Tony Horwitz.
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Early Copy of Super Mario Bros. Sells for Record-Setting $100,150
You might think spending $60 on a new AAA video game is a lot, but three video game enthusiasts just spent more than $100,000 on a single game, and they don't even plan to play it.
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Tupperware Parties: Suburban Women's Plastic Path to Empowerment
If you peeked into a suburban living room in the 1950s, you might see a group of women in funny hats playing party games, tossing lightweight plastic bowls back
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The Lost Worlds of Telnet
Most people think of Telnet as "that thing I used to use to remotely access servers." But a few hearty souls are still keeping their Telnet services online — and it's a great way to experience some good old-fashioned time-wasting fun!
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The Cigarette Company That Reinvented Television News
Television's first news anchorman and modern-style broadcast were brought to you by the fine people at Camel cigarettes.
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Meet Your iPhone’s Grandparent
How the calculator morphed into the pocket computer—the predecessor of today’s smartphones
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Inside the black (cherry) market of vintage Kool-Aid packet collectors
When you’re in the mood for Kool-Aid, you can walk into a grocery store and chose from about 20 different flavor packets all priced at about a quarter a piece. However, if you’re in the market for some quintessentially classic, high-grade, “Oh Yeah!”-era Kool-Aid, you’ll have to enter the fruit-flavored underbelly of one the most intriguing subsets in the world of pop culture food enthusiasts: the black market of vintage Kool-Aid packet collectors.
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Air Force finally retires 8-inch floppies from missile launch control system
"Solid state storage" replaces IBM Series/1's floppy drive.
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A History of Vintage Electronics: The Guglielmo Marconi Collection and the History of Wireless Communications
April 25 marks the birth of Guglielmo Marconi, the Italian electrical engineer who pioneered wireless communications. Today, we celebrate the International Marconi Day.
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Life in Dataspace
A 1985 perspective on the shift of "home" from physical space to the network, rendering geographic location irrelevant and changing relationships.
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Why are game makers creating new Game Boy games in 2021?
Here's an unavoidable fact: the original Nintendo Game Boy is reaching middle age. The world may have moved on to sleeker, less bulky technology since Nintendo's first portable landed in shopping malls and mom-and-pop electronics stores back in 1989. But a number of developers are returning to the green hue of Nintendo's flagship handheld to explore new ideas for the platform, using the classics as a template.
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We feel more nostalgic as we get older — but it’s not always a positive experience
By Emily Reynolds. Young adults reported nostalgia 60% less often than middle aged adults, while older adults reported nostalgia three times more than middle aged people.
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