Web Dev
Is the internet broken beyond repair?
Who broke the internet? And who can fix it again?
Nostalgia
The "glamour" of 1980s computer magazines
Ah, the 1980s! The decade of decadence. Suits with shoulder pads. Dance music workouts with Jane Fonda in leg-warmers. Home computers with rudimentary graphics and sound. *record scratch* Wait. Home computers? How do you make those beige plastic boxes with cassette recorders and televisions for monitors look glamorous? That was
Retro Futurism
Television of the retro-future
Welcome to the world of tomorrow's television as seen from 1978 in this children's book that predicted the future.
Nostalgia
In the 1980s we also downloaded software from TV
Explore with me two fascinating techniques for encoding software in analogue TV signals
Nostalgia
Yes, in the 1980s we downloaded games from the radio
So there I was, minding my own business, doom-scrolling my way through Facebook posts when I happened upon one that hit me straight in the nostalgia. A photo of a 1980s home computer, a cassette player and some tapes. The text underneath proclaimed "In the 1980s, people could download
Nostalgia
Back From The Future: 1995's predictions of 2025 life
In 1995 three brave prognosticators set out to predict life in the 2020s. How did that work out for them?