Tag Archives: History

Cartrivision – Another Attempt to Curtail Home-Viewing

Cartrivision was the very first tape system to offer home rentals. It was introduced back [...]

What is Bluetooth?

Specs Bluetooth behaves a lot like ordinary WiFi, but over much shorter distances. It’s wavelengths [...]

Sony: DRM Overkill

In 2005, an organization had been covertly installing a program similar to a rootkit onto [...]

Adobe Flash

Adobe Flash Player was a familiar sight in the early 2000s. Most browser games used [...]

Corrupted Blood: Art Imitates Life

The heydays of online role-playing games came with a number of new social and digital [...]

Qwerty Board – Why?

The Typewriter A typewriter works (roughly) like this: you press a key. On the other [...]

How Many Bad Conventions Start Online?

Why do so many of these cons have issues?  DashCon – One of The First [...]

FlexPlay: The Worst of All Worlds

Once upon a time, there was a growing trend towards making media easy to access. [...]

True Crime Isn’t Always True

With the rise of True Crime podcasts, some cases become little cultural touchstones. Beginning podcasts [...]

Tumblr’s True Stories Are Stranger Than Fiction

Now that Tumblr’s back in good graces thanks to Musk’s purchase of Twitter, it’s time [...]