MSX was Japan’s audacious bid to create a single, cross-manufacturer standard for home computers. This article traces its rise, the corporate and geopolitical tangle around it, why it thrived in some countries and failed in others, and why retro fans still care.
Emulators let you play decades-old games on modern hardware - but the code on the screen is wrapped in a thicket of copyright law, DMCA anti-circumvention rules, and moral arguments about preservation vs. profit. This article unpacks what’s legally risky, what’s defensible, and what the gaming community still can’t agree on.
Netscape built the first modern browser business, sparked the dot-com rush, and then collapsed into irrelevance. Its story is a primer in product-market fit, distribution, platform risk, and the perils of fighting incumbents without a durable business model.
A nostalgic, technical, and cultural deep dive into cathode-ray tube (CRT) monitors - how they worked, why they dominated the 90s and early 2000s, and why they still spark fierce devotion among retro enthusiasts.
Before smartphones learned to nag us, beepers invented on-the-go social signaling - terse, asynchronous, status-laden and perfectly suited to life on the move. This essay traces the pager’s role as proto-social media and extracts practical lessons for today's platforms.
A nostalgic, evidence-backed comparison of early-2000s blogging site Xanga and today's platforms (Instagram, TikTok). We examine user experience, formats, community dynamics, discoverability, moderation, and what was gained-and lost-when the internet swapped long-form diaries for scrollable dopamine loops.
Before USB thumb drives and cloud buckets, a ragged army of removable hard drives and external SCSI boxes quietly kept studios, labs, and offices functioning. This piece rescues a few of those forgotten models - the Bernoulli Box, SyQuest cartridges, Zip and Jaz drives, and the SCSI externals - catalogs their virtues and vices, and explains why they still matter to preservationists.
A nostalgic, critical look at how streaming services have transformed how we watch, own, and remember media - and what we lose when tactile ritual gives way to endless catalogs and license fees.