Computing Archives

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 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 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: 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 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 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 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 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: 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 […]

Published: January 9, 2024 by Tyler Von Harz

Computers have become a quintessential element of daily life in most societies. The advancements within recent years have made computers […]

Updated: November 1, 2023 by Liam Frady | Leave a Comment

The oldest versions of Windows tell a story of constant innovation, adaptation, and, ultimately, success. Microsoft’s flagship operating system is […]

Updated: September 20, 2023 by David Beren | Leave a Comment

When you think of search engines, the first name that comes to mind is undoubtedly Google and for good reason. […]

Updated: April 16, 2024 by Elizabeth Milne | Leave a Comment

Up Next… Interested in more articles on computing? Click on the links below: Cloud computing technology has completely changed the game when […]

Updated: April 16, 2024 by Jasmine Gray | Leave a Comment

Key Facts There are a variety of ways for organizations to make the most of their technology infrastructure. In order to […]

Updated: February 6, 2024 by Jason Collins | Leave a Comment

Servers are massive, powerful computers specifically designed by the largest server companies. They store, process, and manage network data, devices, […]

Updated: August 8, 2023 by David Beren | Leave a Comment

The world wide web isn’t a name we even use anymore, but it was not too long ago when […]