From browser play to FPGA accuracy: how NES emulation transformed preservation, accessibility, and nostalgia for classic games - and why the legal and ethical fight still matters.

Ask Jeeves began as a charming experiment in natural-language search - a valet who answered questions. It rose quickly, suffered the consequences of misplaced bets, and disappeared into a rebrand. Its story offers sharp lessons about focus, product-market fit, algorithmic rigor, and the human side of search that modern engines still overlook.

A spirited look back at the MiniDisc - Sony’s bold, weird, and oddly prescient format. How it changed portable listening, recording habits, and taught the industry lessons that still echo in streaming today.

From a single analog stick to fuzzy, low‑poly charm, Nintendo 64 classics keep pulling players back. This piece examines the nostalgia, design innovations, and visual aesthetics that make N64 games persist in gaming culture and influence modern titles.

The Newton MessagePad was a strange, brilliant, and messy ancestor of today's tablets. This piece traces how its handwriting recognition, apps, and design experiments prefigured features we now take for granted - and why it was canceled before the world was ready.

How the neon nightmares of 80s and 90s fiction - from cyberpunk novels to VHS-era films - encoded a set of fears that now look eerily prescient: corporate power, ubiquitous surveillance, algorithmic opacity, and computerized warfare. Those old anxieties mutated into modern dread about AI, data extraction, and cybercrime.

Netscape Navigator didn't just surf the web - it built the surfboard. This essay traces how Netscape shaped web technologies, standards and culture, drawing on contemporary reporting, oral histories and recollections from engineers and early users.

Two decades after its demise, the Dreamcast's daring designs and strange little inventions still hum with ideas. This post explains why those games matter today - to players, historians and modern developers.