Tag: Nostaltech

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NostalTech: The Commodore Amiga 500 and the Home Computer Multimedia Era

NostalTech: The Commodore Amiga 500 and the Home Comput...

The Commodore Amiga 500 arrived in 1987 and became Europe's defining home comput...

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NostalTech: The Iomega Zip Drive and the Click of Death

NostalTech: The Iomega Zip Drive and the Click of Death

The Iomega Zip drive promised floppy-simple removable storage at a time when har...

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NostalTech: The HP-12C and the Long Life of Programmable Pocket Math

NostalTech: The HP-12C and the Long Life of Programmabl...

The HP-12C went on sale in September 1981 and, decades later, was still being so...

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NostalTech: How the Palm Pilot Made the Pocket Computer Normal

NostalTech: How the Palm Pilot Made the Pocket Computer...

The Palm Pilot turned the personal digital assistant from a science-fiction idea...

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NostalTech: The Microsoft IntelliMouse and the Quiet Optical Revolution

NostalTech: The Microsoft IntelliMouse and the Quiet Op...

Before lasers and wireless dongles, the Microsoft IntelliMouse helped move mains...

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NostalTech: The Logitech WingMan and the Fight for the PC Gamepad

NostalTech: The Logitech WingMan and the Fight for the ...

Before console ports standardized the PC controller, Logitech's WingMan line tri...

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NostalTech: The Zip Drive and the Removable-Storage Dream Before USB

NostalTech: The Zip Drive and the Removable-Storage Dre...

The Iomega Zip drive promised to retire the 1.44MB floppy with a 100MB cartridge...

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NostalTech: The First Consumer 3D Accelerator Cards Were a Race, Not a Single Moment

NostalTech: The First Consumer 3D Accelerator Cards Wer...

The first consumer 3D accelerators did not arrive as a tidy standard — they arri...

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NostalTech: The Creative Nomad Jukebox and the Hard-Dri...

In 2000 Creative Labs packed a 6GB hard drive into a player shaped like a portab...

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NostalTech: The Early Netbook Era and the Compromises T...

For a few years in the late 2000s, cheap tiny laptops looked like the future of ...

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NostalTech: The Palm Pilot and the PDA That Learned to Stay Out of the Way

NostalTech: The Palm Pilot and the PDA That Learned to ...

The Palm Pilot succeeded not by acting like a tiny PC, but by doing a few pocket...

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NostalTech: Sony Discman D-NE10

NostalTech: Sony Discman D-NE10

In the early 2000s, portable music was revolutionized by a device that epitomize...

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NostalTech: iPhone 6

NostalTech: iPhone 6

In the fast-paced world of technology, it's easy to forget the milestones that h...

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NostalTech: Winamp

NostalTech: Winamp

In the early 2000s, the digital music scene was revolutionized by a sleek and cu...

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Nostaltech: MySpace

Nostaltech: MySpace

Do you remember the days when MySpace ruled the social media landscape? It's tim...

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Nostaltech: Friendster Flashback

Nostaltech: Friendster Flashback

Today, we're taking a stroll down the memory lane of the internet to revisit a r...