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The retro trend of 88x31 buttons on informal websites
Find out about 88x31 buttons, including examples and a list of 88x31 button makers to try out.
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SF’s Market Street Subway Is Running on Reagan-Era Technology
SFMTA runs trains on a storage format that can’t even hold a hi-res image.
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Two C64s Plus a Pile of Floppy Disks Equals One Accordion
The Commodordion is played just like a traditional instrument
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The quiet disappearance of the safe deposit box
Once revered as the safest way to store physical valuables, safe deposit boxes are now being phased out by major banks.
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The 'last man' selling floppy-disks says airlines continue to make orders for the ancient storage technology
The archaic floppy disk apparently isn't as obsolete as we thought in the US. While they're a relic of another time, at least one industry is still interested in the storage devices, according to the person who claims to be "last man standing in the floppy disk business." Tom Persky, the founder of floppydisk.com — which sells and recycles floppy disks — said that the airline industry is one of his biggest customers in the new book "Floppy Disk Fever: The Curious Afterlives of a Flexible Medium" by Niek Hilkmann and Thomas Walskaar.
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BlackBerry will die on January 4th — for real this time
Dear friends, we’re gathered here today to mourn the death of that once-beloved monarch of the mobile world: BlackBerry. And, yes, I realize that this is not the first time we’ve announced the death of the company or its devices (and, for reasons I’ll explain below, it likely won’t be the last) but this is a very definite ending for legacy BlackBerry hardware.
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Calling all payphone users: thousands of call boxes set for protection
With 96% of UK adults now owning a mobile phone, and mobile signal improving significantly in recent years, the way people make calls is changing.
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The epic Blood Omen: Legacy of Kain joins GOG.COM
Over the decades, gaming has expanded in ways people could never have imagined, but one genre that has continued to stand the test of time while still growing is the action-adventure genre.
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Nuclear-powered Tetris handheld generates power for a century
Have you ever picked up a forgotten handheld and thought: “I want to play you, but I know I’ll have to charge you.”? What If I said you’d barely have to worry about charging your device again for the rest of your life? Well, one YouTuber has an unconventional solution: a nuclear-powered Tetris game.
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Today in Apple history: iOS 4 launch brings multitasking and FaceTime
On June 21, 2010, Apple releases the first version of iOS 4. With FaceTime and multitasking features, it's a big step forward for iDevices.
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Back in the Day: The Video Games We Were Playing in June 1991
Welcome back to June 1991, a year of great games and some not so great games. I was going to traumatise you all by reminding you of Gilbert, the snotty alien from that Saturday morning show but then remembered there are much better games to talk about. Still, if I have to remember him so do you so enjoy the image.
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The Game Boy Camera is a fantastic low-res art tool
Last year, I found a retro Game Boy Camera and printer attachment. These products debuted in 1998, and I love to use them to take and print photos.
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Microsoft drops a little surprise thank-you gift for sitting through Build: The source for GW-BASIC
Build Microsoft delighted retro fans by closing its Build conference with an open-sourcing of 1983's GW-BASIC. Warning that he would not be accepting pull requests from fans seeking to scratch a 37-year-old itch, senior program manager Rich Turner made the treble by adding the open-sourcing to the already-scored goals of Windows Terminal 1.0 and the impending arrival of GUI and GPU support in Windows Subsystem for Linux 2.
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Tiger Electronics Is Bringing Back Its LCD Games With Sonic And More
Hasbro's initial lineup includes four classic titles.
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The enduring allure of retro tech
In the era of disposability, some cling tightly to Walkmen, DVDs, and our fading love of stuff.
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Spotify, YouTube, and others get reimagined as retro anime tech
Artist Sheng Lam is behind the satisfyingly chunky designs
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A portable Bluetooth cassette tape player brings retro audio into 2019
Cassette tapes are having a minor comeback: sales were (somehow) up almost 19 percent year over year in 2018, and where there’s a market, there’s a Kickstarter project looking to cash in. Case in point: the Ninm It’s OK. It’s sort of what a portable cassette player like an original Walkman would be if Sony continued to develop tape-based tech in 2019.
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NASA’s restored Apollo Mission Control is a slice of ’60s life, frozen in amber
Following the completion of a multi-year, multi-million-dollar restoration, NASA's historic Apollo Mission Operations Control Room 2 ("MOCR 2") is set to reopen to the public next week. The $5 million in funding for the restoration was partially provided by Space Center Houston, but the majority of the money was donated by the city of Webster, the Houston suburb where the Johnson Space Center is located.
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Retrofuturism: 15 futuristic car concepts of the 1980s
By the mid-80s the angular shapes, straight lines and planar surfaces that characterized the automotive design language.
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Retro PC Ads - 1975 Sphere 1
The Sphere 1 was a personal computer from 1975 built around the Motorola 6800 CPU. It was built by Sphere Corporation, located in Bountiful, Utah. Marketed as the first real computer (due to having a built in keyboard and monitor) targeted at consumers, it ran PDS (program development system) and included an editor, assembler and an edition of BASIC. The first few editions came as a kit, later on fully assembled units were available.
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