Dead Parrot BBS

There was a time when a personal computer made no serious attempt to hide that it was a computer.

The phrase AI slop has caught on because people needed a name for something they were already seeing.

Most people do not really own their online identity.

There is a particular feeling some old software has that is hard to explain without sounding sentimental.

If you hear the word Gemini now, you probably think of Google’s AI product.

IRC is one of those Internet technologies that always seems to be on the edge of being declared dead.

Every so often, somebody asks whether an old operating system can still be used on the modern web.

There was a time when going online usually meant visiting a website.

When Google shut down Google Reader on July 1, 2013, a lot of people decided RSS had died with it.

For a long time, Cloudflare was one of those services that seemed almost too useful not to use.