Stories by vontzy

A look at IBM's short-lived "butterfly" ThinkPad 701 of 1995

Microsoft is winning Big Tech's AI war

The war over Chinese Wikipedia is a warning for the open internet

The Oregon Trail at 50

Arctic Adventure: A lost 1981 TRS-80 adventure game you can play in a browser

Alvy Ray Smith is out to change how you think about pixels

Unheard Steve Jobs tape is part of a trove of tech history

The three early, maddening viruses that shook the world–and Microsoft

How the telephone failed its big test during 1918’s Spanish flu

What it’s like to attend a conference–in person–in the age of Covid-19

1996’s campaign websites didn’t change history. They’re just hilarious

Project LightSpeed: How Facebook shrunk Messenger down by 75%

I’m a trans woman. Google Photos doesn’t know how to categorize me

What happened to Mint?

Delta’s “parallel reality” display sounds like sci-fi, but it’s coming soon

Atari’s home computers turn 40

Facebook’s like button hijacked our attention and broke the 2010s

The weird, wonderful world of Y2K survival guides: a look back

I became part of the alt-right at age 13, thanks to Reddit and Google