Tag Archives: History

Memory Terms

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

The Train That Breaks Itself

If you’ve paid any attention to big tech in the last several years, you’ll probably [...]

Optical Memory

Optical storage is defined by IBM as any storage medium that uses a laser to [...]

Magnetic Memory

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

The Awareness of Future Cringe Past

The Concept of Cringe What is ‘cringe’? To cringe is to jerk away from a [...]

VHS Tapes and Analog Horror

What is it about the humble VHS tape that inspires such magnetism from the horror [...]

Varieties of Screens

There are many different screens. From gigantic vacuum-tube TVs to the flattest of the flat [...]

Public Internet Access Terminals

In the early days of the internet, the average computer was still bulky and often [...]

Emulators Make Games Look Worse Than the Original CRT Did

Old Nintendo games look very different from what people remembered them as. They’re not crazy, [...]

What’s Up With VHS Tapes?

Yeah, CDs are impressive or whatever, but have you ever seen the inside of a [...]