Collaborate Disseminate
In the innocent days of the early 90s the future of personal computing still seemed to be wide open, with pundits making various statements regarding tis potential trajectories. To many, …read more Continue reading How the CD-ROM Lost the Multimedia Dream to the Internet
If you were the type of person who might have read Hackaday had we been around in the late 1980s or early 1990s, it’s a reasonable guess that you would …read more Continue reading It Wasn’t DOOM That Killed The Amiga
There was a moment in the years spanning the move from 16-bit platforms to 32-bit, during which it looked for a moment as though there might be a few new …read more Continue reading Do You Have An Old Hitachi Computer? You Might Just Have BeOS Without Realizing It
The HP-200LX palmtop was a fascinating machine for its time, and [Terrence Vergauwen] proves that its time is not yet over, given that one is responsible for serving up the …read more Continue reading HP-200LX Runs Website Like it’s the 90s
Want to see a 90s-era Acorn Archimedes A3020 home computer get opened up, refurbished, and taken for a test drive? Don’t miss [drygol]’s great writeup on Retrohax, because it’s got …read more Continue reading See Acorn Archimedes Get Repaired and Refurbished, in Glorious Detail
In the early and mid 1990s there were a host of big players in the nascent public Internet that played their part in guiding the adventurous early Web users on their way. Many of them such as Netscape or Altavista …read more
Continue reading No More Cows: Iconic 1990s Download Site Finally Shuttered By Tucows
An FBI memo written during the Unabomber investigation describes roleplayers as ‘armed and dangerous,’ ‘extremely intelligent individuals’ and ‘overweight and not neat in appearance.’ Continue reading Why The FBI Investigated ‘Dungeons & Dragons’ Players in the 1990s
Nostalgia is both fuzzy and insanely lucrative. Continue reading 90s Nostalgia Sells So Well Because We’re Chasing Fleeting Happiness
Nostalgia is both fuzzy and insanely lucrative. Continue reading 90s Nostalgia Sells So Well Because We’re Chasing Fleeting Happiness
London’s 64 Bits exhibition goes back to the future of the web’s early days. Continue reading I Surfed the Wholesome Web of the 1990s at This Historically Accurate Internet Cafe