Step-by-step, practical guide to finding, restoring, and preserving an Atari 800. Covers safety, diagnosis, cleaning, electronics repair, sourcing parts, and preserving historical value.
The story of digital organizers is a story about focus vs. abundance. From the PalmPilot's singular mission - organize your life - to today's always-on smartphones that do everything and demand everything, here's what we lost, what we gained, and what designers should remember.
From a Bellevue garage selling a single paperback to a global behemoth reshaping commerce, cloud computing and logistics-track Amazon’s improbable arc, the decisions that mattered, and the questions it still forces on modern capitalism.
How machine learning and clever tooling are repairing and enhancing classic video games-what works, what breaks, and why it feels like time travel.
Angelfire was a formative playground for a generation of web creators. This piece traces how its quirky constraints taught core web skills, seeded design habits still visible today, and left a cultural afterimage that resurfaces in modern 'retro web' movements.
Lycos went from Carnegie Mellon research project to dot‑com poster child and then to a cautionary relic. This article traces the arc of Lycos’s rise and fall and draws hard lessons every digital startup should heed.
Digital voice recorders have quietly resurrected a human art we were about to lose: the telling of true lives, in human voices. This piece explores how pocket-sized recorders turn private memories into public patrimony, includes interviews with enthusiasts, and gives practical, ethical, and technical tips to make your recordings sing.
A nostalgic, investigative look at how the VCR shaped 90s culture - from rental-store rituals to time-shifting - and why the age of magnetic tape ended so quickly. An argument about what we lost when physical media surrendered to streaming, and why that matters now.