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9 votes
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CP/M for OS X allows you to run CP/M-80 software on your Mac
3 votes -
Charles I's travelling library
4 votes -
What do you think late 2010s-early 2020s nostalgia will look like?
Asking mainly because we generally view this period as a rock-bottom, but nostalgia seems to be as good as natural, so what do you think people in 5, 10, 15+ years will remember overly fondly...
Asking mainly because we generally view this period as a rock-bottom, but nostalgia seems to be as good as natural, so what do you think people in 5, 10, 15+ years will remember overly fondly about the present?
17 votes -
How 1995's Macintosh NY Music Fest 'livestreamed' twenty-five years ahead of its time
3 votes -
The former Netflix DVD library is a lost treasure we’ll never see again
18 votes -
Fry’s Electronics is shutting its doors for good
23 votes -
Revisiting Poptropica a decade later
4 votes -
What were/are your favorite flash/browser games?
Flash is gonna die for good in a few days (dec 31st) so I felt this is a good time to ask this question. (Although obviously, there have been large efforts to preserve these when the developers...
Flash is gonna die for good in a few days (dec 31st) so I felt this is a good time to ask this question. (Although obviously, there have been large efforts to preserve these when the developers did not. And even then, HTML5 means browser games will continue to exist, even though mobile games have mostly replaced browser games anyway.)
Mine personally were (taking away some of the more well-known ones):
Basically a game of celestial golfball. Had a level editor, which was quite fun.
Bonk.io (although this one has a sequel that's not in flash)
Pretty popular for a flash game made in 2016. Basically a game where balls need to "bonk" eachother out of the playing field.
Effing meteors (Definitely one of the games that I probably remember being better than it is.)
Basically a game where you clump up small meteors into bigger meteors to destroy stuff.
A game where a rabbit and frog are fused together and need to bounce like a pogo to the end.
A mountain climbing platforming game.
A game where you need to eat sushis quickly. Also has cutscenes.
An aesthetic racing game? Not entirely sure.
A game where you drill through the planet enough times to move to the next level (man, I had some weird gameplay preferences.)
A game where you need to time your descents to pick up speed in the hills and fly.
An 8 bit game where you as a dinosaur need to outrun extinction.
A power-up racing game I remember playing quite a bit. Definitely designed for children, even if that's not very surprising.
17 votes -
Furniture giant IKEA has announced it will stop printing its traditional catalogue, one of the world's biggest annual publications, after seventy years
10 votes -
On colonial nostalgia and food in fantasy writing
4 votes -
Gopher, Gemini and the smol internet
21 votes -
Oh! The things we had to do to debug software!
9 votes -
Escargot: A custom, reverse-engineered server to bring back MSN Messenger
8 votes -
Big boxes of PC gaming
7 votes -
Why do we feel nostalgia? | Clay Routledge
5 votes -
Fake authenticity
10 votes -
The five most over-hyped tech devices
6 votes -
The Walkman, forty years on
6 votes -
Elegy for a country's seasons [2014]
4 votes -
1998: Apple's iMac is full of flash, dash, but has a few big holes
6 votes -
This is a web page
37 votes -
A history of vintage electronics: The Guglielmo Marconi Collection and the history of wireless communications
3 votes -
Using a 1930 Teletype as a Linux terminal
18 votes -
Baseball card apps bring a classic hobby into the digital age
4 votes -
Vintage Computer Festival Pacific Northwest 2020 looking for exhibitors, speakers, and volunteers
7 votes -
What skill were you once good at that is now completely irrelevant?
E.g. changing a typewriter ribbon, changing the oil in your car.
27 votes -
AIM was the killer app of 1997. It’s still shaping the internet today.
16 votes -
The enduring allure of retro tech
9 votes -
The story of the team behind the 6502
4 votes -
US Air Force finally retires 8-inch floppies from missile launch control system
14 votes -
Cocktails from the 1970s
6 votes -
Eleven things computer users will never experience again (2015)
5 votes -
Wi-Fi just turned twenty, but things could have gone very differently for the now ubiquitous wireless connectivity standard
8 votes -
Here's why adult cartoons are a huge mood right now
7 votes -
In praise of Hook, a flawed classic
5 votes -
The world's oldest webcam is shutting down after a quarter of a century
21 votes -
What are some old (20+ years) anime series that stood the test of time?
After rewatching Evangelion on Netflix, I got in the mood for some classics. Some of my beloved old animes, like Kare Kano, Escaflowne and Fushigi Yuugi, are not available either on Netflix or...
After rewatching Evangelion on Netflix, I got in the mood for some classics. Some of my beloved old animes, like Kare Kano, Escaflowne and Fushigi Yuugi, are not available either on Netflix or Crunchyroll. So I'm curious to know from you guys which old animes (that premiered at least 20 years ago) are still a good watch. Thanks!
13 votes -
Subway history: How OS/2 powered the NYC subway for decades
6 votes -
Inside the black (cherry) market of vintage Kool-Aid packet collectors
9 votes -
'Tetris' turns thirty-five
11 votes -
The return of the pie company that gave the Frisbee its name
6 votes -
You can never go home to GeoCities again - The new video games Hypnospace and Wrong Box offer up complicated nostalgia for the internet of yesterday
4 votes -
Why there's so little left of the early internet
2 votes -
Can anyone help me remember a sci-fi short story about disintegrating weapons and nuclear winter?
I'm trying to recall a short story I read about 10 years ago in English class in school. It would probably be fair to call it "sci-fi", but I'm not sure how important that is. What I remember: the...
I'm trying to recall a short story I read about 10 years ago in English class in school. It would probably be fair to call it "sci-fi", but I'm not sure how important that is.
What I remember: the story was set in the midst of an escalating arms race, Cold War-style, and the characters were chiefly military personnel (I think).
At some point, a chief actor obtains technology that is designed to (from memory) "disintegrate all weapons (certain materials/metals?)" within a vicinity.
I believe the technology is then used, and what ensues is a world-enveloping nuclear winter. I'm not sure how the weapons disintegration tech leads to a nuclear winter. It's also quite possible that I'm conflating two separate stories I read in that class.
Anyone have any idea what short stories I could be thinking of? This would be at the very latest pre-2010 stuff, and knowing my English teacher (old bloke from Yorkshire) probably 20th century. Probably.
7 votes -
The teens who listen to ‘mallwave’ are nostalgic for an experience they’ve never had
18 votes -
Fifty literary cameos in '90s movies
4 votes -
Demand for cassettes surges as music fans hit rewind
10 votes -
A 1950s TV show had a fear-mongering conman named Trump who wanted to build a wall.
7 votes -
A short history of computers in the movies: Panel lights, spinning tapes, and lab coats
4 votes