Collaborate Disseminate
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
The AM broadcast band doesn’t have a lot of mainstream programming on it across much of the United States today. That’s a shame because a lot of kids got their first taste of radio and electronics by building simple crystal radios. [Eric Wrobbel] has a well-done page discussing some of …read more
For gamers, the early 2000s certainly stand out as a memorable era. The dawn of the 21st century ushered in the sixth generation of home video game consoles, with Sony, Nintendo, and Microsoft all releasing their systems within a few years of each other. Nintendo also released their Game Boy …read more
Continue reading RuneScape GBA Controller is a Nostalgic Mash-Up
I don’t want these games to look better than they did. Continue reading The PlayStation Classic Accurately Captures the Fumbles of Early 3D Games