A retrospective on how the early Windows editions of Adobe Illustrator - imperfect, pixel-heavy, but powerful - opened vector design to amateur artists and small businesses and changed the industry's… more
How a staid government-backed microcomputer, given to schools and shown on TV, quietly shaped game design in the 1980s - through hardware quirks, powe… more
The TI-99/4A looked like a beige toy. Under the lid it was quietly ambitious: a 16‑bit CPU, a discrete video co‑processo… 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
How a short-lived, underdog handheld pushed color, scale and texture into compact cartridges - and how artists and fans keep its bruised-but-brilliant aesthetic alive.
culture We remember the beep as a hymn and the plastic as warm. But Tiger Electronics’ handhelds - the tiny… 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
