Published: December 23, 2024 by David Beren

As the world today mostly recognizes Google as a verb for search engines, it is difficult to remember a time […]

Published: December 20, 2024 by Liam Frady

Word about Salt Typhoon is making the news right now. As a former cybersecurity professional, it is incredible to see […]

Published: December 18, 2024 by Liam Frady | Leave a Comment

Typically, when you’re thinking about operating systems in the modern day, you’ve got three to consider. Linux, Windows, and MacOS […]

Published: December 17, 2024 by David Beren

One of the most important companies in the history of computers, smartphones, and tablets, Apple is a name that needs […]

Published: December 12, 2024 by Liam Frady

Smartphones are ubiquitous these days, everyone and their cousin have one. However, in the early years of the tech’s introduction […]

Published: December 11, 2024 by Liam Frady

Apple’s first iPod is celebrating its 23rd birthday, and I thought it was high time to take a closer look […]

Published: December 6, 2024 by Liam Frady

Do you remember the first time you saw a truly breathtaking effect in film? For me, it was seeing the […]

Published: December 5, 2024 by Liam Frady

If you had sat down with a musician in 1976 and told them the entire way they approach recording, tracking, […]

Published: November 27, 2024 by Liam Frady

I think it bears mention of how spoiled we are when it comes to information in the modern era. If […]

Published: November 26, 2024 by Liam Frady

The internet has gone from something seen as a veritable fad to a backbone supporting modern society. It has its […]

Published: November 21, 2024 by Liam Frady

You might find yourself curious as to what browser wars even mean. That’s fine and dandy, and the subject of […]

Published: November 20, 2024 by Liam Frady

Were you around for the dotcom bubble? Silicon Valley was like a second Wall Street during the late 90s to […]

Published: November 15, 2024 by Liam Frady

Killer apps are a fascinating phenomenon when looking at computers. You’ve likely been accustomed to some over the years, like […]

Published: November 15, 2024 by David Beren

The world of computers in the 1980s feels like a time capsule compared to today’s light and thin machines. Long […]

Published: November 14, 2024 by David Beren

Microsoft has been at the forefront of the tech world since the mid-1980s as the world’s premier name in computing. […]

Published: November 13, 2024 by Liam Frady

Why would someone emulate vintage computers on modern hardware? Well, there is no shortage of reasons to keep using legacy […]

Published: November 9, 2024 by David Beren

In the early 1980s, computers were far from the light and thin machines they are today. While these models were […]

Published: November 8, 2024 by Liam Frady

What factors are driving the retro computing revival? While hardware is more powerful than it has ever been, there is […]

Published: November 7, 2024 by Liam Frady

One way or another, you’re interacting with operating systems. Your smartphone uses one, and your tablet and laptop do as […]

Published: November 7, 2024 by David Beren

When you think about today’s internet, it’s full of buzzwords like NFT, AI, SEO, IoT, Machine Learning, Blockchain, and the […]

Published: October 31, 2024 by David Beren

When you think about how to communicate on today’s internet, places like Reddit and online forums are key. Unlike social […]

Published: October 30, 2024 by David Beren

If you have ever owned a computer, especially over previous decades, you know that the type of storage used has […]

Published: October 29, 2024 by Liam Frady

Computers need programming languages to function. That’s just a simple fact of life. However, these languages didn’t just spring up […]

Published: October 28, 2024 by Liam Frady

Floppy disks, if you’re older than 30, you likely remember these from school. In the days before CD-Rs, thumb drives, […]

Published: October 27, 2024 by Liam Frady

BBS, or bulletin board systems, were one of the big reasons to hop on the internet in the 1980s. We […]

Published: October 26, 2024 by David Beren

As someone who loves the Sony brand almost as much as I love Apple, I had a love affair with […]

Published: October 25, 2024 by David Beren

When you reflect on the 1980s onward, two names in the electronics physical retail space will most likely come to […]

Published: October 24, 2024 by Liam Frady

What even is a forgotten home computer? When we gaze back at the annals of computing history, there are some […]

Published: October 24, 2024 by David Beren

Years before Android and Apple dominated the smartphone game, BlackBerry was already a household name. The company that essentially introduced […]

Published: October 23, 2024 by Liam Frady

How has technology impacted art? Despite at our core being predisposed toward art, it hasn’t been a possibility for the […]

Published: October 18, 2024 by Liam Frady

Computers have been a part of the household since the 1980s. However, when we think of them in a modern […]

Published: October 16, 2024 by David Beren

When you think back 20 years, your internet browsing options were simply Internet Explorer and Internet Explorer. While IE dominated […]

Published: October 15, 2024 by David Beren

When it comes to the website of the world’s largest online retailer, a lot of work goes into what you […]

Published: October 14, 2024 by David Beren

Let it be said that I am a huge PDA fan, and my Palm Treo was one of my favorite […]

Published: October 13, 2024 by David Beren

When purchasing vintage or obsolete computer tech, there is eBay and everywhere else. The challenge with eBay is that as […]

Published: October 12, 2024 by Liam Frady

What do you think of when you envision the world’s first personal computer? You might consider machines like the Apple […]

Published: October 10, 2024 by Liam Frady

There are countless obsolete formats littered throughout tech history. For every success story like the CD, you’ve got failures like […]

Published: October 9, 2024 by David Beren

If there is one certainty in my touristy life, I love a good museum. However, combining a museum with a […]

Published: October 8, 2024 by David Beren

As the world’s leading sports network and news organization, ESPN has been at the forefront of the sports world for […]

Published: October 8, 2024 by Liam Frady

The Packard Bell Statesman was a popular laptop, at least by 1994’s standards. However, before we dive more into it, […]

Published: October 6, 2024 by David Beren

With the famous words “You’ve Got Mail” in the back of my mind, I can easily talk about my love […]

Published: October 5, 2024 by Liam Frady

Compact discs originally hit the scene in 1982, a joint effort from Japanese electronic giants Phillips and Sony. However, if […]

Published: October 4, 2024 by Liam Frady

The world’s first smartphone is a far cry from the modern devices we tout with us daily. IBM was the […]

Published: October 2, 2024 by Liam Frady

Did people use the internet in 1986? As a former network engineer, there is a fair amount of time spent learning […]

Published: September 30, 2024 by David Beren

If you’re anything like me, there was something special about going to a Radio Shack during the 1980s and 1990s. […]

Published: September 27, 2024 by David Beren

One of the most prolific electronic devices we use daily, the mouse, is a staple of the computing experience. It’s […]

Published: September 26, 2024 by Liam Frady

I was a kid when the original Game Boy came out, and if you had one, you were in the […]

Published: September 26, 2024 by David Beren

One of my absolute favorite parts of my personal gaming history is when I discovered the world of PC games. […]

Published: September 24, 2024 by Liam Frady

There is no shortage of weird Raspberry Pi projects floating around on the internet. I feel like for every banal […]

Updated: September 25, 2024 by Liam Frady

I’m a child of the 1990s, so I have an unhealthy love of retro arcade cabinets. When I was a […]