Posts by benjedwards@mastodon.social
(DIR) Post #AWQzolSoKR83MADiTI by benjedwards@mastodon.social
2023-06-07T02:41:48Z
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Did it fully register with anyone that Apple announced a wearable eyeball simulator yesterday
(DIR) Post #AWp3UHVUE1yL8G03Rg by benjedwards@mastodon.social
2023-06-18T14:55:15Z
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“The New Rockefeller” (1993)
(DIR) Post #AXIDW6RLS9dJM91qHA by benjedwards@mastodon.social
2023-07-01T19:22:27Z
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Twitter’s messed up, Mastodon isn’t loading, BlueSky isn’t loading … well I guess there is more to life than social media
(DIR) Post #AXTs04WGtV72Hm4pEG by benjedwards@mastodon.social
2023-07-07T14:52:10Z
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In 1998, I stayed online for over 20 hours straight and got a warning email from my ISP
(DIR) Post #AXpC2FxCTwCk2JtPSS by benjedwards@mastodon.social
2023-07-18T14:49:37Z
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What's the best piece of software ever written?
(DIR) Post #AXrM3E1NTOnAHyV6Y4 by benjedwards@mastodon.social
2023-07-19T17:46:34Z
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@webmink @arstechnica Thanks, I have updated the article to rectify the "open source" issue.
(DIR) Post #AXtt6drlWYxk7NA4uW by benjedwards@mastodon.social
2023-07-19T19:21:30Z
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Expecting TV streaming services to keep a historical archive is like expecting your local movie theater to preserve film history. They only show what is commercially viable, and they discard the rest'Ole Benj warned y'all about this way back in 2012: https://www.technologizer.com/2012/01/23/why-history-needs-software-piracy/
(DIR) Post #AYL5cOBjL2jftlCJU0 by benjedwards@mastodon.social
2023-08-03T02:05:11Z
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@clive Clive with the cool links!
(DIR) Post #AYnCl4JCEtyysc8W0W by benjedwards@mastodon.social
2023-08-16T13:33:25Z
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Just a reminder that any device with a sealed-in battery is disposable by designAny archivists/museums who wish to preserve smartphones for the future must remove the batteries NOWThey swell up and are ultimately fire hazards
(DIR) Post #AhoGKbAiWrMAO16Gp6 by benjedwards@mastodon.social
2024-04-15T14:04:24Z
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Clip art collections from the early 1990s are forgotten cultural time capsules, freezing life three decades ago as digital illustrations full of obsolete tech, vintage fashions, and moreI dug through clip art CDs to find fun examples:https://www.vintagecomputing.com/index.php/archives/3337/tech-time-capsule-early-1990s-clip-art-captured-an-era
(DIR) Post #Ahumev4ScKBXNLfP72 by benjedwards@mastodon.social
2024-04-15T15:47:31Z
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Gizmodo interviewed me and my co-author Dr. Jose Zagal about our new MIT Press Platform Studies book, Seeing Red: Nintendo's Virtual Boy:https://gizmodo.com/the-nintendo-virtual-boy-deserves-your-respect-1851408009
(DIR) Post #Ai0cDFV1EpOo2112mG by benjedwards@mastodon.social
2024-04-03T02:45:15Z
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My Atari friends are my best friends
(DIR) Post #Ai5d4XJWhp1KQ9qifo by benjedwards@mastodon.social
2024-04-08T21:25:01Z
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Today's the last day to play Nintendo Wii U or 3DS online networking games -- servers shut down at 4 PM Pacific (7 PM Eastern) tonight. Farewell old friends😨https://en-americas-support.nintendo.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/63227/~/announcement-of-discontinuation-of-online-services-for-nintendo-3ds-and-wii-u
(DIR) Post #Ai6PJdtPK9g6y4twEi by benjedwards@mastodon.social
2024-04-02T21:53:34Z
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Avast, me hearties! Back in 2020, I wrote a piece about what life was like before the Internet, and how things are different nowIt languished unpublished, but I decided to put it up on VC&G because some people might enjoy it (or enjoy arguing with it):https://www.vintagecomputing.com/index.php/archives/3132/my-memories-of-what-life-was-like-before-the-internet
(DIR) Post #AjmL71HyzNEayEoEb2 by benjedwards@mastodon.social
2024-07-10T00:22:44Z
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I recently discovered an odd first-person maze game called “Lair of Squid” built into my HP 200LX palmtop PC, released in 1994Then I found the author. Here’s the story of how this quirky Doom-inspired title came to be: https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2024/07/how-i-found-a-forgotten-squid-based-ode-to-doom-on-a-1994-palmtop-pc/
(DIR) Post #Ak6RRRnbcTGEUuAcUq by benjedwards@mastodon.social
2024-07-19T22:43:53Z
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Found some classic reading from 1999 in my mom’s house: CliffsNotes “Creating Your First Web Page.”
(DIR) Post #Ak6RRSemQlnN9p35NY by benjedwards@mastodon.social
2024-07-19T22:48:12Z
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It’s not mine because I built my first website in 1995 :)https://www.fastcompany.com/3053173/what-it-was-like-to-build-a-website-in-1995
(DIR) Post #Al20WMDyLSwF3sIOA4 by benjedwards@mastodon.social
2024-08-16T16:44:57Z
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So what’s the good news in the world today?
(DIR) Post #AqC18WZumgkvFk3rKi by benjedwards@mastodon.social
2025-01-18T02:24:11Z
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The PC is Dead: It's Time To Make Computing Personal AgainMy new essay on how we lost control of personal computing to Internet surveillance, DRM, and extractive business models—and how we can launch the era of Personal Computer 2.0https://www.vintagecomputing.com/index.php/archives/3292/
(DIR) Post #AyTJRxcB7a9c0vP2LQ by benjedwards@mastodon.social
2025-09-22T17:39:32Z
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The Iomega Tower of PowerZip + Jaz + Ditto