As far as DLC goes, we need a lot more of this.
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TechnologizerHistory
Technology in the 1990s, as Captured in Obsolete Computer Store Signs
On Saturday, my wife and I went to run some errands at a shopping center in Santa Clara, California, in the heart of Silicon Valley. As we pulled into the parking lot, we let out simultaneous little startled gasps: Micro Center, …
Finally, an iPhone Case with a Built-in Magna Doodle
In a world brimming with iPhone cases, it takes a lot to get noticed. This iFoolish case might just have what it takes.
Careful to sidestep any legal entanglements, the £19.99 ($32) case simply bills itself as “a 3.7″ retro …
TechnologizerComputers
Apple II Forever: a 35th-Anniversary Tribute to Apple’s First Iconic Product
Thirty-five years ago, on April 16 and 17, 1977, more than twelve thousand proto-geeks flooded into San Francisco’s Civic Auditorium. They were there to attend a new event called the West Coast Computer Faire, and the room …
TechnologizerApple
Fourteen Ways to Celebrate the Apple II’s 35th Birthday
You probably weren’t paying attention when a tiny company called Apple Computer introduced its second product, the Apple II microcomputer, at the West Coast Computer Faire on April 16 and 17, 1977. (I wasn’t.) You may never have …
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Photos: The Apple II Turns 35
Alternate Universe: Twitter Invented in the ’80s, Facebook in the ’90s
Exciting times, friends: Behold the future, as if it happened in the past – and by “future” I mean “present” instead.
If Twitter would have been invented in the 80s. [Squirrel-Monkey.com]
TechnologizerCompanies
Our Fabulous Future: Corporate America’s Great Tech-Utopia Movies
The wonders of tomorrow, as revealed by GM, Hewlett-Packard, Apple, Microsoft and other companies in seven decades’ worth of self-serving mini-epics.
Pros and Cons of the Internet (as Taught to Students in 1996)
Last weekend, I was at my parents’ house in Connecticut for a family matter. As my sister went through some of the things in her childhood bedroom, she discovered a document from 1996, explaining the advantages and disadvantages of the Internet. This was apparently part of some high school handout packet; also included among the papers …
Tiny $25 Computer for Kids Who Want to Learn Real Computing
Ask any British coder of a certain age what it was that got them into the technology business in the first place, and the chances are high that they’ll say it was a childhood encounter with a Sinclair Spectrum, a BBC Micro, or an Acorn computer.
Back in the 1980s, these three UK-designed computers were a massive success story. They …
TechnologizerComputers
Mobile Computing is Thirty Years Old This Weekend
Sad but true: We have no national holidays in this country that pay tribute to our great technological heritage. But if we did, April 3rd would be a good candidate. On that day in 1981, at a trade show in San Francisco, a startup called Osborne Computer Corporation announced the Osborne 1, the first mass-produced portable computer. That …
Video Starts Upgrade Process at Windows 1.0, Ends at Windows 7
Oh hey, childhood, early teens, high school, college, post-college and modern day memories. What are you guys all doing here?
An angel of a saint of a man on YouTube has documented the installation of Windows 1.0 followed by an upgrade to every subsequent version of Windows thereafter. He opts for Windows 2000 instead of Windows ME, …
