Time-travel stories let us imagine fixing historical wrongs. But they also reveal the moral limits of intervention, the seductions of 'one act' salvation, and the kinds of imagination activists actually need for reparative justice today.
The Apple Newton was more than a famously fallible PDA - it became a fertile playground for hackers. This piece unpacks the open-source and homebrew community that grew around the Newton MessagePad, the technical and social lessons it leaves for modern developers, and a practical path to getting hands-on with Newton-era hacking today.
A practical, hands-on guide to building a Neo‑GeoCities site in 2023: keep the blinking GIFs, tiled backgrounds, and guestbooks - but host them with modern tools. Includes cultural context, step‑by‑step instructions, code snippets, and hosting options.
AOL Instant Messenger didn't just let people chat - it taught an entire generation how to manage presence, curate identity, and expect instant attention. This post traces AIM’s features (away messages, buddy lists, screen names) and shows how they seeded the behaviors and UX patterns of modern social platforms.
A visual timeline and analysis tracing Dell’s transformation from Michael Dell’s dorm-room startup and beige towers to the thin, CNC-milled laptops and gaming rigs that define the brand today - and what that journey means for consumer tech.
How a modest 68000-based home computer with MIDI ports and a stubborn user base quietly rewired music studios, desktop publishing shops and the indie game scene - and why its influence still hums in modern tools.
The Acorn Electron was supposed to be Britain’s affordable BBC Micro. Instead it became a study in clever engineering undone by timing, supply failures and brutal market forces. This article explains what Acorn got right, where it stumbled, and why enthusiasts argue it was more undervalued than failed.
How a 1984 business desktop - the IBM PC AT - seeded the rules, mistakes, and rituals that still shape modern PCs. A look at the technical choices (80286, 16-bit bus, BIOS setup, A20), the business model of compatibility, and the long shadow these decisions cast on hardware, OS design, and industry structure.