A nostalgic yet skeptical look at how data moved from tactile, personal media like floppy disks to ephemeral cloud infrastructures - and what subtle, meaningful things we gave up in the trade for convenience and scale.
A guided tour through lesser-known 80s and 90s space operas - anime and Western - that shaped modern sci‑fi but now live in the dust of bargain-bin VHS. Story beats, animation choices, cultural influence, and how to find them (yes, legally).
A contrarian look at the TI-99/4A: raw specs, architectural quirks, and why - despite being laughably underpowered by modern numbers - it still teaches us something useful about computing and human experience.
Why are teenagers buying Walkmans and swapping mixtapes in 2025? Because cassettes offer ritual, scarcity, and a tactile honesty streaming can’t deliver. This article explains the cultural, technological, and emotional reasons behind the cassette resurgence - and how it’s changing the way young people think about music and ownership.
Contemporary creators are rediscovering vintage tripods for the quiet stability and character they bring to shoots. This guide shows how to choose, restore, and use these storied tools alongside modern cameras-without losing your patience or your sensor.
Internet Explorer wasn't just a browser - it was a time machine. Its quirks, dominance, and backward-compatibility turned the early web into a living museum of glittery homepages, Flash experiments, and stubborn old code.
A nostalgic walk through Lycos's cluttered, colorful homepage that asks a surprising question: what of the 90s web should we preserve, and what should we leave in the era of dial‑up? This post teases out practical UX lessons from an era that thought animated GIFs were a legitimate branding strategy.
How a modest 1987 home computer - its custom chipset, Deluxe Paint, and a scrappy demoscene - remade what it means to make images with a machine, and why artists still court its limitations today.