retro
!retro
Pebble was one of the first modern smartwatches when it launched on Kickstarter in 2012 (I still have mine). It became popular for its long battery life, massive library of applications, and open software, and was later followed up by several more models. Pebble shut down in 2016 after running out o…
A documentary in 8 episodes about BBSes and the people behind them, released under creative commons…
An anecdote about the first model of 10k RPM hard drive and bringing an old one back to life…
“Martin Gore of Depeche Mode played one in studio for a segment in the song “Wrong”.” Found this page via :…
A little further back than most posts but I hope it fits…
… “Sometimes I think about buying an old PowerPC Mac, installing MacOS 9, and creating a small island of computing peace for me. Often this idealized machine of retrocomfort morphs into a different device, and sometimes I wish it was a G4 iMac running MorphOS, or an Amiga running AmigaOS 4.1.”…
Do you remember the old times that Etherpad-lite was not yet available ?..