On February 1, Robert Tinney, the illustrator whose airbrushed cover paintings defined the look and feel of pioneering computer magazine […]
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Stewart Cheifet, PBS host who chronicled the PC revolution, dies at 87
Stewart Cheifet, the television producer and host who documented the personal computer revolution for nearly two decades on PBS, died […]
In 1995, a Netscape employee wrote a hack in 10 days that now runs the Internet
Thirty years ago today, Netscape Communications and Sun Microsystems issued a joint press release announcing JavaScript, an object scripting language […]
Modder injects AI dialogue into 2002’s Animal Crossing using memory hack
But discovering the addresses was only half the problem. When you talk to a villager in Animal Crossing, the game […]
AOL announces September shutdown for dial-up Internet after 34 years
After 34 years of connecting Americans to the Internet through phone lines, AOL recently announced it is shutting down its […]
After 27 years, engineer discovers how to display secret photo in Power Mac ROM
“If you double-click the file, SimpleText will open it,” Brown explains on his blog just before displaying the hidden team […]
Microsoft surprises MS-DOS fans with remake of ancient text editor that works on Linux
Last month, Microsoft released a modern remake of its classic MS-DOS Editor, bringing back a piece of computing history that […]
Reddit user surprised when 1960s computer panel emerged from collapsed family garage
Skip to content Rare RCA control panel from 1966 may be the only surviving example of its kind. A RCA […]
Engineer creates first custom motherboard for 1990s PlayStation console
The nsOne project joins a growing community of homebrew PlayStation 1 hardware developments. Other recent projects include Picostation, a Raspberry […]
US air traffic control still runs on Windows 95 and floppy disks
On Wednesday, acting FAA Administrator Chris Rocheleau told the House Appropriations Committee that the Federal Aviation Administration plans to replace its aging […]