Collaborate Disseminate
We have probably all been there: that sudden memory of playing a (video) game and the good memories associated with said memory. Yet how advisable is it to try and …read more Continue reading Feeling a Pong of Nostalgia: Does it Hold Up In 2024?
It is hard to imagine that a handful of decades ago, TV wasn’t a thing. We’ve talked a few times about the birth of television. After an admittedly slow slow …read more Continue reading Retro Gadgets: Things Your TV No Longer Needs
Like many of us, [MIKROWAVE1] had a lot of electronic toys growing up. In a video you can watch below, he asks the question: “Did electronic toys influence your path?” …read more Continue reading A Trip Down Electronic Toy Memory Lane
For decades now, MTV has been on a bizarre trajectory given its original name was an acronym for Music Television. In the original days in the 80s and 90s it …read more Continue reading Video Killed the Radio Alarm Clock
Fewer and fewer people have cable TV subscriptions these days, due to a combination of poor business practices by cable companies and the availability of alternatives to cable such as …read more Continue reading Recreating The Golden Era of Cable TV
We can’t remember ever seeing a late-night TV ad for oscilloscopes before but, for some reason, Tektronix did produce a video ad in 1987. You can see it below and …read more Continue reading OScope Advert from 1987 Rocks It
For those of us who are a little older, the 90s seem like they were just a few years ago. The younger folks might think that the 90s were ancient …read more Continue reading New Drivers for Ancient Webcam
Born of nostalgia and the pandemic, the project seeks to recreate an ersatz past. Continue reading RE-AOL Is a Faithful Recreation of AOL 3.0
Tell the world that something is in short supply, and you can bet that people will start reacting to that news in the ways that make the most sense to …read more Continue reading Hackaday Links: July 18, 2021
You’re hit by the global IC shortage, reduced to using stone knives and bearskins, but you still want to make something neat? It’s time to revisit BEAM robots. Biology, electronics, …read more Continue reading Living Robots: Revisiting BEAM