How a staid government-backed microcomputer, given to schools and shown on TV, quietly shaped game design in the 1980s - through hardware quirks, powerful BASIC, and a clutch of brilliant, often overl… more
Before feeds and profiles, there were ICQ pages - glittering, jagged, and earnest little self-portraits posted by modem-lit teenagers and earnest amat… more
Dust off an IBM PC XT (or fire up an emulator) and discover how the machine's severe limits force beautiful, surprising… more
Lycos was once a dot‑com superstar - this essay compares its early strategies with Google and Bing and argues what Lycos… more
Emulation has given a second life to the Sega Master System - but at what cost? This article examines how emulators and… more
We remember the beep as a hymn and the plastic as warm. But Tiger Electronics’ handhelds - the tiny licensed LCD games that populated pockets and schoolyards - survive mostly in me… more
retrotech How a cheap, stubborn little computer and a stack of magazines turned thousands of British kids into… more
retrotech Internet Explorer was once the default, the comfortable choice, and - for many corporate users - the… more
retrotech Vintage computers sell not just because they were useful - because they are anchors for memory. This… more
