Category Archives: History

Emulators: Legal Gray Area

History of the Emulator   An emulator is a program that emulates a game console, [...]

Public Campaigns Vs. Public Image: A McDonald’s Story

#Farmers of McDonalds   #MeettheFarmers was the initial campaign, the one that McDonald’s had planned [...]

GameStop: Lazarus of the Gaming World

GameStop   Gamestop first began as an offshoot of Babbage’s, and initially launched in 1999 [...]

What’s the Deal with NFTs?

Is it Bad for the Environment?   Well – that’s complicated. Blockchain technology already takes [...]

Apple Wheels – It’s Wheely About Advertising

Ah, Complaining.   Apple Wheels   The Apple Mac Pro cost several thousand dollars, and [...]

Blizzard Entertainment’s 2012 Hack: An Example of How to Do It Right

In 2012, game developers were beginning to experiment with a principle known as “always on”. [...]

In Terms of Memory

The first Bit of Data   A bit is a single character in binary, and [...]

Attempts at Media Storage That Didn’t Get Big

CEDs: Like Vinyl for Video, but more expensive   The CED (or capacitance electronics disc) [...]

Magnetic Storage Types

  Magnetic Tape   The most well-known version of tape-based magnetic storage is the kind [...]