How bulky tapes, shaky pans and the ritual of rewinding remade family memory in the 1990s. A deep dive into VHS and 8mm camcorders, their aesthetics, rituals, and the nostalgia enthusiasts keeping the tapes alive.
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.
In the era of beepers and numeric codes, people learned to strip language to its bones. This piece explores how pagers forced brevity and precision, includes first-person recollections, and draws practical lessons for today's overstuffed messaging culture.
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.
How pocket calculators - the scientific, financial and graphing devices of the 1980s and 1990s - reshaped classrooms, workplaces and product design, and why their influence still echoes in today’s devices.
A nostalgic deep dive into how external hard drives and removable-disk products from the 1980s and 1990s reshaped computing - from technical breakthroughs to cultural impact - and practical guidance for preserving the data they hold.