Stories by shortformblog

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

Electronic University History: TeleLearning at 300 Baud

Wikitorial History: The Los Angeles Times’ Failed Wiki Experiment

Digital Television: Our Annoying National Upgrade

The Ghosts of Windows 3.1

The Evolution of Saving in Video Games

The Tech Historian Who Started Making His Own Joysticks

Vox Media Acquires Coral Project from Mozilla

How Sears Sold Technology to Middle America

Meet the Community Keeping Obsolete Supercomputers Alive

They Sold It in Books: The History of Clip Art

NetZero, Juno: How Free Dial-Up Defined the Early Internet

Thinner and Lighter Laptops Have Screwed Us All

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