Tag: NOSTALGIA

In the time before Game Boy, handheld gaming consisted of primitive "animations" on alarm-clock-like LCDs. The glory days of Game & Watch and Tiger handhelds are long gone, but now you can head over to Pica-Pic.com and enjoy their simple fun without having to raid eBay. Every tinny sound and unresponsive control is recreated with a stunning level of accuracy. Go now, and make sure to hit up ...

Heartbroken lovers eager to get over their exes will no longer have to worry about running into painful old photos on Facebook, now that the social network has decided to automatically remove all unwanted romantic nostalgia from its 'Photo Memories' feature. The 'Memories' box, which appears in the top right corner of some Facebook pages, used to display photos of all your friends who were ...

Chief software architect at Microsoft Ray Ozzie was digging though his archives when he stumbled across a folder dated November 20th, 1985. Inside was the original press release and related materials for the release of Windows 1.0. The presser includes quotes from the likes of Bill Gates, who proclaims, "Windows provides unprecedented power to users today and a foundation for hardware and ...

As gadgets progressively shrink in size and expand in function, reminiscing about vintage tech gear generally becomes a mocking and condescending exercise. Ridiculing the massive and relatively simple devices -- on the surface -- can be effortless, but, put in the proper context, cumbersome and clunky gadgets again appear revolutionary and inspiring. Wired is providing a retrospective glimpse at ...

When we were wee-little bloggers, nothing piqued our interest in books more than the Choose Your Own Adventure series. In retrospect, the series (which was launched in 1979) and its interactive storylines presaged the role-playing video games that would later engross millions. Having changed publishers' hands over the years, Choose Your Own Adventure has found a still newer venue -- albeit under ...

As you probably know, computers were once solely the purview of nerds. Those with pocket protectors, glasses, and very few friends spent the '80s sitting in front of bulky beige boxes named PC Jr. or Apple II. 'How I Met Your Motherboard' celebrates those heady days by collecting stories and photos of people's earliest computing memories. The tales collected speak of love affairs started with now ...

As postmodern society accelerates, we look back with greater and greater fervor. Nostalgia, not for decades past but for mere months back, informs us of who we are and whence we come. Reminiscence helps us to situate ourselves in history. But also, it helps us to make fun of ourselves! Danish tech fan Theis Søndergaard recently launched Wired ReRead after flipping through back issues of ...

When video games first emerged from the primordial tech stew, the initial creators experimented with a variety of different codes, formats, and cartridges. Many of those styles and early evolutionary techniques have been rendered obsolete, though, and are now rapidly progressing toward complete irrelevance. The '70s and '80s witnessed the release of a huge assortment of quality games, but some ...

The "re-imagined, re-invented, and nuttier than ever" stage version of 'Pee-wee's Playhouse,' which originally debuted in 1981, will premiere November 8th in Los Angeles. To hype the upcoming play, which will feature a cast of original human characters as well as an assortment of the classic puppets, Paul Reubens (a.k.a., Pee-wee Herman) has been making the publicity rounds. He has also created ...

BuzzFeed, by way of Everything is Terrible, recently unearthed the above classic tutorial, intended for the computer noobs of old who needed help learning about DOS. That's Disk Operating System for all you youngins not old enough to experience the computer dark ages (or salad days, depending on your mindset) of the 1980s. Replete with hilarious and quotable lines ("Files have first and last ...

Beginning October 8th, the Profiles in History auction house will be offering a one-of-a-kind item with which one lucky 'Star Trek' fanatic can wholly demonstrate his unconditional love for the show's iconic creator Gene Roddenberry. The item is an "early production Macintosh 128 (#776), which was then upgraded by Apple for Gene to a Macintosh Plus." According to TUAW, Apple's gift to ...

As cult classics go, 'The Big Lebowski' is perhaps king of them all. The tale of a bowling and beer-loving underachiever, it's the sort of story to which we all can relate -- or at least enjoy watching. It's no surprise then, that the Dude has become a sub-cultural icon, as most recently shown by a series of art panels done in the pixelated style of 8-bit video game systems. Classic game ...

It's not unusual that gamers, serious and casual alike, get duped by manufacturers who shill needless, overpriced, and dysfunctional accessories and add-ons (ahem, Nintendo). Well, Scott Jones and some of the other Crispy Gamers have sorted through the most over-hyped (and underwhelming) peripherals of the past, present, and future in order to celebrate and denigrate 'The 11 Biggest Frauds in ...

The Hollywood writers strike supposedly ended in 2008, but judging by the flood of various '80s-era remakes (including some truly awful selections), the writers still haven't dusted off the cobwebs that gathered during their lengthy hiatus. Continuing the alarming lack of creativity, Hollywood producers are revisiting the 1982 Disney film 'Tron' which details the virtual adventures of a ...

In today's dizzying world of technological growth, a lot of hardware falls by the wayside, left to reside forever in as relics in dusty attics and landfills. To illustrate this fact, the folks at Wired have put together a list of technological ephemera that our children may never know about (and some non-techie stuff as well). Highlights range from "inserting a VHS tape into a VCR to watch a ...