A look back at the brutal, bungled duel between Sega's Saturn and Sony's PlayStation - the marketing misfires, hardware choices, killer games, and the stubborn fandom that turned a lost war into a lasting legend.
Step-by-step guide for hobbyists to experience the ZX Spectrum today - choose between emulation, original hardware restoration, or FPGA recreations, and connect modern displays, storage, and controllers while preserving vintage electronics.
The IBM PC XT introduced a set of hardware and firmware decisions whose echoes are still audible in modern PCs. This post traces the XT's architecture, software compatibility mechanisms, and the pragmatic stubbornness of legacy support - and explains why engineers should study these old machines.
What if browsers brought back the purposeful, power-user-friendly search features of AltaVista but without the clutter and privacy sins of the 1990s? This essay proposes a modern reincarnation-practical UI, privacy-preserving architectures, and community layers-that would make search more humane, precise, and resilient.
A nostalgic yet practical blueprint for building a modern, minimalist writing app inspired by Windows Write - balancing the charm of simplicity with contemporary design, privacy, and performance.
The clean, spare interfaces of the 1990s - born of constraints, clarity, and a stubborn devotion to usability - offer a surprisingly potent playbook for today's privacy-focused tech activists. This piece traces the lineage and extracts concrete design rules for building ethical, user-first digital tools.
The Sinclair QL, with its counterintuitive genius - cheap, small, multitasking, and modular - offers a design philosophy that could inspire a new generation of devices combining clarity, thrift and hacker-friendly expandability.
How cheap beams of light became badges of honor at LAN parties - and why playful showmanship with early laser pointers produced injuries, angry pilots, and new rules. A sharp look at the devices, the people who wielded them, and the etiquette that finally followed.