In total control - From the arcades to the living room, how the controller has evolved—and why one tech historian, Benj Edwards, started building his own
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Michelangelo’s Sistine splendor, story of a Renaissance icon
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Clash of the slasher titans: The ’88 and ’89 box office battles between Michael, Jason and Freddy!
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During WWII, Bletchley Park was home to codebreaking and tea shenanigans
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The greatest outfits in Grammys history
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Death and valor on a warship doomed by its own Navy - An investigation into the crash of the USS Fitzgerald
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The oral history of Office Space: Behind the scenes of the cult classic
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Eastern Front of WWII animated: 1943/44
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The real definition(s) of freestyle
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America colonisation ‘cooled Earth's climate’
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Nintendo makes it clear that piracy is the only way to preserve video game history
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Holocaust Memorial Day: How the pink triangle became a symbol of gay rights
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The embroidered computer
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The Beatles: The strange history of Sexy Sadie
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A newly-discovered note may finally prove that the much-disputed portrait of young Jane Austen is, in fact, the novelist herself
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“The Linux of social media” - How LiveJournal pioneered (then lost) blogging
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To save the sound of a Stradivarius, a whole city must keep quiet
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Battle of the ax men: Who really built the first electric rock 'n' roll guitar?
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Mini Stories: Volume 6
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How Technicolor changed movies
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A massive amount of iconic works will enter the public domain on New Year’s Eve
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Bandersnatch: the game that killed a company and inspired a Black Mirror episode
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A short history of computers in the movies: Panel lights, spinning tapes, and lab coats
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Leo Tolstoy on finding meaning in a meaningless world
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Only Michelangelo made abdomens – and wonky toes – like these
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'Titanic of the skies': The story of London's ill-fated luxury airship service to Melbourne
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A nostalgic look back at digital music piracy in the 2000s
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Last Sassanids and the anti-Caliphate alliance with Tang
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Lost NES version of SimCity emerges after twenty-seven years
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Third-wave anti-racism makes sense, but it’s a dead end
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The secret histories of secondhand books
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The great NFL heist: How Fox paid for and changed football forever
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How ‘Baldur’s Gate’ saved the computer RPG
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First Muslim superhero returns after seventy years – just in time to take down a few Nazis
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The Rise and Demise of RSS
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How we lost our ambitions for the tech-enabled home
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Apple computers used to be built in the US. It was a mess
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The cover of MAD magazine #258 from October 1985 announces a special computer section featuring the MAD Computer Program
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Remember backing up to diskettes? I’m sorry. I do, too.
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Mystery blast sank the USS San Diego in 1918. New report reveals what happened.
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Project Code Rush - The beginnings of Netscape/Mozilla
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Four days trapped at sea with crypto’s nouveau riche
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Sega Dreamcast at twenty: the futuristic games console that came too soon
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If you could choose to live out your entire life in any time and place in history, what would you choose and why?
There are many periods and places of history that are romantic to me, but I wonder which would have been the best/most interesting to actually live in.
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The birthplace of the modern apple
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We thought the Incas couldn’t write. These knots change everything.
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The single biggest layoff in Canadian history
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Last surviving Khmer Rouge leaders found guilty of genocide in landmark ruling
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Navy training video - Mechanical computers [1953]
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Why 536 was ‘the worst year to be alive’
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