Vintage Computing and Gaming

Greetings, fellow retro tech fans. 20 years ago today, I launched Vintage Computing and Gaming.

How surveillance capitalism and DRM turned home tech from friend to foe.

Clip art collections from the early 1990s are today’s forgotten cultural time capsules, freezing life three decades ago as digital illustrations full of obsolete tech, vintage fashions, and more.

Platform Studies book from Zagal and Edwards launches May 14, 2024.

[Benj’s note — I originally wrote this in 2020 and had it sitting around until now.

In August 2022, I joined up with Ars Technica as their AI and Machine Learning Reporter.

Atari founders circa 1972-73 (from left to right):Ted Dabney, Nolan Bushnell, Larry Emmons, and Allan Alcorn [ Atari Pong turns 50 years old today, and I thought it might be fun to revisit an article I wrote about the game’s creation for Edge Magazine (Is…

[ Phillip Heller is a member of the Prodigy Preservation Project.

“Now computing can be fun and easy for the entire family.”

In Memoriam: Clive Marles Sinclair (1940-2021) British inventor, Founder of Sinclair Research, Creator of Sinclair computers — See Also: RSOTW: Where’s the Bits?