Once dismissed as relics of a bygone office era, fax machines are quietly proliferating again - especially where legal weight, regulatory comfort, and air-gapped reliability still matter. This piece explains why, where, and how the fax persists, and how organizations can use it responsibly in 2025.

Make your Sega Genesis ROMs stop looking like sterile PNGs and start looking, sounding and feeling like they did in the living rooms of 1992. This guide covers shaders, audio tweaks, controller mapping, and hardware options to restore authenticity without sacrificing modern convenience.

Kodak invented the digital camera, then spent decades protecting film. Its decline is a textbook lesson in how corporate success can calcify into strategic blindness - and what modern tech firms must do to avoid the same fate.

How did on-screen robots go from comic sidekicks to morally ambiguous killers? This essay traces that shift across 1980s–90s films - from Short Circuit’s wide-eyed Number 5 to the Terminator’s cold inevitability - and shows how those changing tropes mirror our anxieties and aspirations about technology.

From cassette-tape necklaces to Game Boy-inspired streetwear, vintage gadgets aren't just museum pieces - they're active ingredients in contemporary style. This article traces how retro technology became fashion shorthand, why it resonates psychologically, and how brands and consumers turn nostalgia into profit, identity, and oddly sincere aesthetics.

How did a wooden ruler, a clacking pocket calculator and the glowing rectangle in your pocket form a single lineage? An analytical, often wry look at how calculation tools evolved, what calculators taught us, how they seeded the smartphone age-and what we quietly lost when everything went app.

Microsoft Works was small, fast, and unabashedly useful. Its humble integration and friendly wizards solved messy, everyday problems. Modern productivity software-bloated, cloud-first, and fashionably segmented-could regain something important by reviving a few Works-era ideas. This article argues for a tasteful 'retro revival': compact, integrated workspaces, offline-first modes, template intelligence, and simpler mental models.

How an underdog 1980s console found a second life in software: a technical and cultural tour of Atari 7800 emulators, from crude ROM runners to cycle‑exact preservation tools that keep gaming history honest.