Tag: tech history
Video Fridays: SEEKING MAVIS BEACON (trailer)
Something about this trailer reminded me of the early days of the Apple ][ in elementary schools....
A Nerd History Media Fail and a Couple Nerd History Media Wins
August is notorious for being the doldrums for tech news. On the Mac side, any tech announced at...
Technology Tuesdays: Apple Tried to Bury It’s Past Failure
I love it when I hear someone complain that anyone who spends more than $500 for a computer is...
Tech Tuesday: The Myth of Open Architecture & “Repairability”
As I’ve said on more than a few occasions, I didn’t get into tech because I loved tech or gadgets....
Video Fridays: Macintosh | Apple’s Most Successful Failure
More tech history, boys and girls, more Apple Macintosh history, that it. I never owned any of the...
JBB’s DRP for 5/3/23: Above the Noise: What Really Happens to old Electronics?
How many of you have heard of “planned obsolescence,” where something is created with limited...
Video Fridays: Springboard: The Secret History of the First Real Smartphone
I was an early adopter of the Handspring PDA and bought my Visor in blue in 1999. I learned to...
Video Fridays: Inside the flop that changed Apple forever
I love documentaries and documentaries about the early PC revolution are near and dear to my heart...
Video Fridays: The Birth of Basic
Taking a slight break from music videos and such, this video popped up in my feed and I was...
Is the Watch the Next Big (Tech) Thing
Lots of buzz about the Watch, as we quickly approach Apple’s official entrance into the...
Witnessing History: The Best Steve Jobs Keynote
Just over eight-years ago I was in the auditorium on January 9, 2007 and witnessed history when...
TWiT Pundits Poke Fun – Confused By Apple iPad Ad
In his defense Chief-TWiT, Leo Laporte, calls himself a pundit, who comments on the news, and not...
One Last Thing: The PBS Steve Jobs videos
I know that I’m venturing dangerously close to Steve Jobs Biography overload, with my last...
What is… The Internet? (1994 Commercial)
Love the Wired plug with their cutting edge offices and all those tube CRTs....
Not Being Overly Enamored With Shiny Boxes
I have been working with some kind of tech since 1979. Before that I was student who loved to doodle and write. When it came to actually bringing technology home, I remember window shopping in the early 80’s and happening...
