Big Box era: manuals, maps and the lost ‘hardware’ of software
The physical world of software we left behind.
#tech #software #computers #nostalgia #physicalmedia #1980s
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Everyone is talking about the Apple #Neo. I still worship the original Mac
[1987] Legacy tech: demystifying the early history of home computing
How the modern computer “happened”.
#tech #history #technology #apple #vomputer #nostalgia #author
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[1987] The 5.25-inch floppy: the fragile backbone of the 1980s computer revolution
Sneakernet: how we shared (and copied) software before the internet.
#tech #computers #nostalgia #1980s #apple
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[1987] An early history of Apple: secrets behind the success of the mighty Apple II
The genius behind Apple’s strategy that dominated the 1980s.
#apple #mac #tech #history #computers #stevejobs
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[1987] Track 1, Disc 1: the real history of the birth of the Compact Disc era
Do you remember your first CD? I do.
#tech #history #technology #sony #CDs #physicalmedia #music
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[1987] Desktop Revolution: Why 1987 was the most important year in computing history
What 12 issues of MacUser magazine reveal about 1987.
#tech #apple #history #software #technology #1980s
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[1987] Bit by bit: how the CD player redefined the quest for flawless sound
The kid who had the best CD player in the school.
#tech #technology #history #audio #music #CD #Sony #retro
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[1986] Projecting the past: rediscovering the ritual of family slide-projector night
LONG READ: My childhood journey through China in the 1980s.
#travel #china #photography #tech #history #diary
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Ha ha. We would have been in Sweden at the same time, even in 82 🤩🙌 Thanks for your comment 👊
[1986] Beyond the negative: demystifying the golden era of chrome slide film and slides
Lifting the lid on slide photography.
#photography #analog #slides #slidefilm #nostalgia #camera
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”£27 of your pounds will disappear offshore and go untaxed to our children. Thank you for your support.”
It’s EXTRAORDINARY, James 😅
[1986] Across the USSR with just a Walkman and a pair of mini speakers
My 7-day train journey on the ‘Trans-Siberian Railway’ as a 13-year-old.
#travel #history #memoir #russia #coldwar #tech #1980s
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[1986] By the book: Turning the tables on a mysterious 8-bit game from 1986
The game on the Commodore 64 caught my eye.
#retrogaming #gaming #author #indieauthor #8bit
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So … everyone who smashed their way into the Capitol Building? 🤔
@mrjamesob.bsky.social Did you ever own a Discman?
[1986] Skip, pause, rewind: How the Discman conquered the world
But Sony’s early portable CD players had dirty little secrets.
#tech #history #sony #cd #music #spotify #retro #physicalmedia #nostalgia
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I see what you did there 👏👏
[1986] The fax of life: how did we send paper documents through the phone line?
The mystery of the 1980s’ most essential office machine, explained.
#tech #nostalgia #office #retro #fax #history
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[1986] Amazing Amiga: recalling the stunning visual renaissance in computing
I will never forget the first time I ever saw a “jpg” image.
#gaming #amiga #retrogaming #computers #nostalgia #tech #design #digitalarts #pixelartist #1980s
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At the Met, the melancholic work of the Finnish artist Helen Schjerfbeck has the strange effect of jolting your senses. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/c3UBhn
[1986] 40 years later: my boyhood memories of Chernobyl fallout in Sweden
The radioactive cloud came straight in my direction.
#history #nuclear #coldwar #1980s
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Tack för de fina orden.
Häftigt! 🙌
Wow. I did not know that 🙌
[1985] Cheap sensation: a nostalgic look back at the legendary Sinclair ZX spectrum
The impossibly plucky British computer that birthed an industry.
#tech #british #computing #zx #nostalgia #history #genx #generationx #1980s
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[1985] I tried starting my 40-year-old Commodore 64 and loading games from a tape
Here’s what happened when I got it all set up.
#gaming #retrogaming #computers #tech #retro #C64 #nostalgia
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[1985] The 8-bit era: demystifying the sounds and graphics of 1980s computing
Unpacking the 8-bit history and aesthetic — bit by bit.
#8bit #pixelart #tech #design #nostalgia #1980s
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[1985] Here’s what Lego should have announced in 2026: a classic kit from 1982
Has Lego lost the plot with smart bricks? They need to bring back the 8700 kits.
#lego #build #tech #retro #nostalgia #1980s
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