My ordinary life: Improvements since the 1990s
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Turn any webpage into a 1990s GeoCities blink fest
24 votes -
Swiss embassy radio
8 votes -
Ten desktop publishing tools that didn’t make it
19 votes -
A history of GetRight
10 votes -
GenAI is our polyester
17 votes -
In 1978, Arthur C. Clarke predicted the rise of AI and wondered what would happen to humanity
18 votes -
Intelligent Agent Technology: Open Sesame! (1993)
7 votes -
Closed captions on DVDs are getting left behind
14 votes -
The internet used to be a place
29 votes -
A 1903 proposal to preserve the dead in glass cubes
16 votes -
When ChatGPT broke an entire field: An oral history
14 votes -
YouTube at 20: From ‘Lazy Sunday’ to ‘Hot Ones’
5 votes -
The GNU nano text editor is named by analogy
18 votes -
The GeoCities Website Maker is a fun and charming way to turn any modern webpage into a nostalgic 90s-style site
26 votes -
Review: Cræft, by Alexander Langlands
4 votes -
AI chatbots are people, too. (Except they’re not.)
10 votes -
Algorithmic complacency: Algorithms are breaking how we think
82 votes -
The birth and glory of Swedish computers
7 votes -
The 88x31 GIF Collection
64 votes -
Space hifi
6 votes -
How AI is unlocking ancient texts — and could rewrite history
16 votes -
In memoriam: Thomas E. Kurtz, 1928–2024
14 votes -
Grooveshark: The original Spotify
21 votes -
Img_0416
35 votes -
Make it ephemeral: Software should decay and lose data
24 votes -
‘We were wrong’: An oral history of WIRED’s original website
14 votes -
Thinking on storage
9 votes -
Duracell PowerCheck: A genius idea which didn't last that long
51 votes -
45 years ago CompuServe connected the world before the World Wide Web
8 votes -
Inside Iron Mountain: It’s time to talk about hard drives
23 votes -
Tapedeck.org is a digital archive that features hundreds of cassette tape designs
13 votes -
Why GitHub actually won
21 votes -
Microsoft Graveyard: a website for tracking dead and soon-to-be-dead Microsoft products
39 votes -
End of the road: An AnandTech farewell
53 votes -
US National Security Agency releases footage of Rear Admiral Grace Hopper speech from the 1980s
32 votes -
The rise and fall of Usenet: How the original social media platform came to be
9 votes -
Making radio pay: Toll broadcasting and the first ad on the airwaves
6 votes -
It's starting to look a lot like... Y2K
24 votes -
Objects of Our Life: Steve Jobs' talk at the 1983 design conference in Aspen
7 votes -
Thirty years later, FreeDOS is still keeping the dream of the command prompt alive
18 votes -
FreeDOS open-source text-based OS turns 30, still in active development and primarily used for retro gaming
13 votes -
Fast crimes at Lambda School
21 votes -
Before smartphones, an army of real people helped you find stuff on Google
21 votes -
Goldfish memories - most of China’s early websites have disappeared
30 votes -
Archie, the (pre) Internet’s first search engine, is rescued and running
14 votes -
The forged Apple employee badge
25 votes -
Emoji history: The missing years
6 votes -
Making the Macintosh: Technology and culture in Silicon Valley
11 votes -
Zilog discontinues production of original Z80 processor after forty-eight years
28 votes