“There’s More to Life On-Line” Just a few months ago, the 20th anniversary of the launch of WorldsAway, a pioneering graphical online world, came and went without any major notice (it launched in September 1995). But I remembered the milestone, and I wrote a recent This Old Tech column over on PCWorld.com about my memories […]
[ Earlier this year, I asked readers what they wanted to see on VC&G’s tenth anniversary. Most people said “behind the scenes coverage,” but I wasn’t sure how to approach that. So I asked my longtime editing partner Harry McCracken to interview me in the hopes that I might accidentally say something interesting about the […]
* Feathered hair not included Ah, the good ole days when you had to pay $535 (that’s $1,744 in today’s dollars) for the privilege of merely being able to hook a printer to your home computer. What can I say — it was a useful feature. My first computer, an Apple II+, came equipped with […]
There was a time when you could fit the entire Internet in a box. [ From Internet World, February 1996, p.1] Discussion Topic of the Week: What ISP did you use to first connect to the Internet?
A time when TVs were made of wood and children were not yet rabid. In honor of Thanksgiving, a holiday which tends to emphasize family, I’ve dug up this AT&T Sceptre Videotext Terminal box art that I captured years ago. Look at those gloriously generic 1980s folks gathered around the TV set. (I say “captured” […]
Epic MegaGames purchase invoice in January 1996. You’re looking at a rare physical artifact from the twilight of shareware’s golden age. Way back in 1996, when Gears of War maker Epic Games still went by “Epic MegaGames,” I ordered a few registered copies of its shareware games through CompuServe. Since it was a special buy-and-download […]
Click to see other views of this image: [ Original Size ] [ 2X Zoom ] [ 4:3 Ratio ] It’s hard to believe that an artist created this delectable representation of a strawberry using only tiny digital squares in a mere 16 different shades. Whomever made it did so in 1986 on a Commodore […]
Click to see other views of this image: [ Original Size ] [ 2X Zoom ] Just two days ago, Sony announced the PlayStation 4 at a press event in New York. It reminded me of the last time I eagerly awaited a new console launch. That would be way back in 1993 with the […]
Click to see other views of this image: [ Original Size ] [ 2X Zoom ] This particular image, titled “Another Day at the Office,” is one of the gems of my personal GIF collection. I believe I downloaded it from CompuServe, and I likely downloaded it on the file date, June 16, 1996. The […]
Click to see other views of this image: [ Original Size ] [ 2X Zoom ] You’re looking at a photograph of an Apple I computer that currently resides in the collection of the Smithsonian Institute in Washington, D.C. It was on display at one point, but I believe it is not being displayed at […]
