Stories by shortformblog

Active-Matrix LCD Panel History: Why American Companies Missed Out

Duracell PowerCheck History: An Energizer of a Battery Patent Battle

The Firmware Update of Doom: Sony’s PS3 OtherOS Debacle

Why John McAfee Was Secretly a Social Media Innovator

An Examination of Quizbowl’s Technological Evolution

NES Advantage History: The Story of the NES’ Defining Early Controller

Test Pattern History: How Color Bars Became a TV Staple

Browse Minimally: A Case for More Minimal Web Browsers

Pac-Man Patterns: The Secret to a High Score

AT&T WorldNet vs. AOL: How Flat-Fee Access Disrupted Dial-Up Internet

Résumé History: A Sudden Rise to Modern Irrelevance

The Inbox Pioneer: This Is True, an Email Newsletter Going Since ’94

White Plastic Devices: From Apple to Zire, a Century-Long Story

Elf Bowling History: It’s Not a Virus. It’s Not Spyware. (2017)

Pac-Man Patterns: The Secret to a High Score

SharkWire: The Nintendo 64’s GameShark-Operated Online Service

DualDisc Format History: Not Quite a CD, Technically a DVD

Why Trapper Keepers Are Hard to Find in Stores These Days

Why Most Marketing Emails Still Use HTML Tables

Michael Wolff’s Internet Book Empire

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