I turned a 1990s Samsung CRT into a retro terminal with a Raspberry Pi Zero 2W
I’ve never really been a guy who spends much time on the command line or terminal on any computer or…
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4 PC ports that outlived their inventors and still refuse to die
Hippocrates once said “art is long, life is short.” It’s a neat old proverb that, like many ancient Latin and…
USB-A is 30 years old, but it still does these 6 things better than USB-C
Although USB-A’s color-coded cables and ports may be a nuisance to navigate, there’s no replacing this tech, old as it…
The ’90s cutest PC failure tried to replace URLs with physical media
The ’90s and the ’00s were one of a kind, and this isn’t just my millennial nostalgia peeking through here.…
Don’t recycle that CRT yet—these 4 uses beat any flat panel for retro games and TV
So you’ve found an old CRT PC monitor, or maybe you inherited it from your grandpa. Either way, it’s just…
PC backward compatibility is a miracle: 5 nostalgic components that still slot right in
The best and worst thing about tech is just how fast it moves on. You buy a CPU today, then…
Should you shut down your PC every night? Here’s what it actually does to your computer
When I was growing up in the ’90s, one of the first things I learned about our home computer was…
The invisible PC killer from the ’90s is still around—and most people don’t know it
The early days of people having internet in their homes were pretty wild. Viruses were pretty much everywhere, and unlike…
4 ways to repurpose an old Xbox Kinect camera
The Xbox Kinect was Microsoft’s big push into motion and gesture-controlled gaming, debuting right around the same time as the…