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RetroNov 7

The original floppy disk’s envelope cleaned it as well as covering it

RetroNov 7

The first Macintosh nearly missed its software deadline. The spacebar got formatting moving.

RetroNov 7

Ben Hammersley Suggested Podcasting While Padding a Newspaper Story on Deadline

RetroNov 7

Tamagotchi Turns 30 With a Times Square Takeover After Winning a Prize for Wasting Our Time

RetroNov 7

Xbox and GameCube Landed Three Days Apart With Opposite Pitches for the Living Room

RetroNov 6

The 1988 Internet worm tried last names backward. Email debug mode did the rest.

RetroNov 6

Bill Atkinson got two weeks to prove Apple needed Pascal. Lisa used the result.

RetroNov 6

IBM's early disk team used compressed air to keep the head from scraping data

RetroNov 6

IBM's tape breakthrough involved a vacuum cleaner and baby pants

RetroNov 6

Microsoft says its Mouse spent four weeks in Canadian agricultural quarantine

RetroNov 6

Apple explained printer settings with a font animal that became the dogcow

RetroNov 6

Nokia 3310 vs. Nokia 1100: 47 grams lighter, with a flashlight

RetroNov 5

The earliest “Hello, world” its creators remembered was written for C’s predecessor, B

RetroNov 5

Commodore 64 vs. VIC-20: nearly thirteen times the system RAM behind a familiar keyboard

RetroNov 5

Early web pages had an HTML tag that switched off every tag after it

RetroNov 5

Fred Cohen’s 1983 virus demo got full system rights in under five minutes at its fastest

RetroNov 5

An old iPod touch backup surfaces early apps with their version numbers intact

RetroNov 5

Microsoft Word had so many shortcuts it collided with the Mac’s emergency abort keys

RetroNov 5

The Mac’s four-voice sound demo squeezed two values into each register

RetroNov 5

The Macintosh team’s pirate flag went up with rusty nails and survived a Lisa-team heist

RetroNov 5

The original Mac shipped a hook for a little man who never fit

RetroNov 5

An archive upload collects the Roland ROM pairs that bring old DOS music back

RetroNov 5

ThunderScan made an ImageWriter read photos by replacing its ink ribbon

RetroNov 5

CERN's two-year staff turnover gave the Web proposal an office problem to solve