Slashdot Items Tagged "nostalgia"

Date / Time Story
Wednesday June 23, 2021 @03:12PM Ed Roberts, Personal Computer Pioneer, 1941-2010
Thursday June 03, 2021 @05:21PM Atari VCS Game Console Finally Launches June 15
Monday December 28, 2020 @08:28PM Early Apple Designs Revealed, Courtesy of Hartmut Esslinger
Thursday May 23, 2019 @05:07PM Portland Software Developer Unveils 'Playdate' Retro Handheld Console With a Built-in Crank
Tuesday February 26, 2019 @09:55PM The Cassette Returns On a Wave of Nostalgia
Friday March 18, 2016 @11:35PM What Lies Beneath: The First Transatlantic Communications Cables
Friday March 11, 2016 @03:57PM 'Serious Sam 1' Engine Released As Open Source
Wednesday March 09, 2016 @11:13PM Thanks For the Memories: Touring the Awesome Random Access of Old
Wednesday March 09, 2016 @10:49PM How Astronomers Used the First Concorde Prototype To Chase a Total Eclipse
Tuesday March 08, 2016 @08:33PM ScummVM, Update With a Bang
Saturday March 05, 2016 @03:06PM Join the Hunt For the Government's Oldest Computer
Friday March 04, 2016 @09:34AM MAME Released Under OSI-Compliant, FSF-Approved License
Tuesday February 23, 2016 @02:29PM Computer Engineer Wes Clark Dies at 88
Tuesday February 23, 2016 @02:00AM The Story Behind the Worst Computer Game In History
Monday February 15, 2016 @01:47PM Preserving Cuba's Classic Cars
Friday February 12, 2016 @01:30AM Internet Archive Brings Classic Windows 3.1 Apps To Your Browser
Wednesday February 10, 2016 @09:36PM SCO vs. IBM Battle Over Linux May Finally Be Over
Tuesday February 09, 2016 @08:50PM Uborne Children's Books Release For Free Computer Books From the '80s
Friday February 05, 2016 @06:31PM Online Museum Displays Decades of Malware
Thursday February 04, 2016 @02:37PM Facebook Celebrates Turning 12 Today
Sunday January 31, 2016 @12:24AM Linux Kernel 2.6.32 LTS Reaches End of Life In February 2016
Saturday January 30, 2016 @10:21AM German Inventor, Innovator and Businessman Artur Fischer Dies At Age of 96
Friday January 29, 2016 @04:56PM In Memoriam: VGA
Tuesday January 19, 2016 @11:36AM John Romero Creates New Doom Level
Thursday January 07, 2016 @11:26AM The E6-B Flight Computer Is 75 Years Old, Still In Use
Monday December 28, 2015 @01:04AM Perl 6 Released
Friday December 25, 2015 @06:34PM Tour the Turn of the Century Electrotherapy Museum (Video)
Friday December 25, 2015 @08:59AM For a Missouri Cassette Tape Factory, Obsolesence is Just a 12-Letter Word
Saturday December 12, 2015 @08:22PM How Much Is That Click, Clack Worth?
Friday December 11, 2015 @07:22PM The Real Star Raiders II
Tuesday December 08, 2015 @09:07AM B-52s: The Plane That Refuses To Die
Saturday November 28, 2015 @12:56AM Celebrating ARM's 25th Anniversary With the Visual ARM1
Thursday November 26, 2015 @11:44AM Free Pascal Compiler 3.0.0 Is Out; Adds Support For 16-Bit MS-DOS, 64-Bit iOS
Friday November 20, 2015 @07:07PM Happy 30th Birthday, Windows!
Sunday November 15, 2015 @05:31PM The Intel 4004 Microprocessor Turns 44
Saturday November 14, 2015 @10:03AM Freeciv Founded 20 Years Ago Today
Friday November 13, 2015 @08:22PM Gene Amdahl, Pioneer of Mainframe Computing, Dies At 92
Thursday November 12, 2015 @10:09AM How One Company Is Bringing Old Video Games Back From the Dead
Tuesday November 10, 2015 @11:25AM Sony To End Sales of Betamax Tapes Next Year
Tuesday November 10, 2015 @09:54AM Hands-On With the Nintendo PlayStation
Thursday November 05, 2015 @12:05PM Celebrating 30th Anniversary of the First C++ Compiler: Let's Find Bugs In It
Tuesday November 03, 2015 @01:51PM The Return of OS/2 Warp Set For 2016
Tuesday November 03, 2015 @10:58AM Gateway Computer Co-Founder Mike Hammond Dead At 53
Tuesday October 27, 2015 @12:11PM MAME Emulating a Sonic the Hedgehog Popcorn Machine
Sunday October 18, 2015 @10:35PM New Plastic For Old Amigas and Commodores
Sunday October 18, 2015 @09:25PM "Father of the Space Shuttle" George Mueller Dies At 97
Tuesday October 13, 2015 @12:36PM Playboy Drops Nudity As Internet Fills Demand
Tuesday October 13, 2015 @12:35PM 3 Open Source Projects For Modern COBOL Development
Tuesday October 13, 2015 @10:40AM How Analog Tide Predictors Changed Human History
Sunday October 04, 2015 @06:55PM Desktop Turing-Welchman Bombe Build
Saturday October 03, 2015 @07:52PM Apollo-Era Photos Now Up at NASA's Flickr Account, In High-Res
Thursday October 01, 2015 @03:03PM 30 Years a Sysadmin
Tuesday September 29, 2015 @11:35AM Retro Roundup: Old Computers Emulated Right In Your Browser
Saturday September 26, 2015 @02:40PM Dr Who Detective Philip Morris Hints At More Rediscovered Episodes
Saturday September 26, 2015 @01:39PM Recalc Or Die: Excel 1.0 Developers Celebrate Their Baby's 30th Birthday
Friday September 18, 2015 @09:55PM Club Concorde Wants To Put a Concorde Back In the Air
Tuesday September 15, 2015 @10:57AM Northern California Wildfire Destroys American Telephony Museum
Friday September 11, 2015 @08:35AM TSR's Lost 1980s Dungeons and Dragons Movie Script, Reviewed
Tuesday September 01, 2015 @08:11AM LILO Bootloader Development To End
Monday August 31, 2015 @01:14AM Unearthed E.T. Atari Game Cartridges Score $108K At Auction
Thursday August 27, 2015 @09:13AM Contiki 3.0 Released, Retains Support For Apple II, C64
Sunday August 23, 2015 @09:27AM Windows 95 Turns 20
Saturday August 22, 2015 @02:38PM COBOL Comes To Visual Studio 2015
Tuesday August 18, 2015 @10:02AM Jason Scott of Textfiles.com Is Trying To Save a Huge Storage Room of Manuals
Friday August 14, 2015 @06:54PM Commodore Smartphone Hits Trademark Opposition
Friday July 31, 2015 @07:22PM 10 Years of Intel Processors Compared
Tuesday July 28, 2015 @08:47AM Smithsonian Increases Goal For Spacesuit Crowdfunding Effort
Sunday July 26, 2015 @11:22PM Nintendo TVii Service Will Go Dark August 11th
Saturday July 25, 2015 @12:49PM Battle For Wesnoth Seeks New Developers
Monday July 13, 2015 @07:39AM For £70,000, You Might Be Able to Own an Enigma
Friday July 03, 2015 @07:47AM "Jobs" vs. "Steve Jobs": Hollywood Takes Another Stab At Telling the Steve Jobs Story
Saturday June 27, 2015 @02:49PM GA Tech Researchers Train Computer To Create New "Mario Brothers" Levels
Friday June 26, 2015 @10:22AM How Etak Built a Car Navigation System In 1985
Friday June 26, 2015 @09:18AM Lenovo Could Remake the ThinkPad X300 With Current Technologies
Thursday June 18, 2015 @08:50AM The Rebirth of Arcade Racers -- On Kickstarter
Sunday June 14, 2015 @04:21PM Woz To Be Immortalized In Wax
Friday June 12, 2015 @06:34PM Commodore PC Still Controls Heat and A/C At 19 Michigan Public Schools
Thursday June 11, 2015 @12:59PM PHP At 20: From Pet Project To Powerhouse
Monday June 01, 2015 @07:43AM Mystery Woman Recycles $200,000 Apple I Computer
Friday May 22, 2015 @11:09PM 25 Years Today - Windows 3.0
Thursday May 21, 2015 @11:11AM In 1984, Jobs and Wozniak Talk About Apple's Earliest Days
Thursday May 14, 2015 @01:39PM Rediscovered Lucas-Commissioned Short "Black Angel" Released On YouTube
Wednesday May 13, 2015 @09:14AM (Hack) and Slash: Doing the LORD's Work
Saturday May 02, 2015 @10:04PM Bill Gates Owes His Career To Steven Spielberg's Dad; You May, Too
Saturday April 04, 2015 @04:48PM Building an NES Emulator
Friday April 03, 2015 @06:27PM Microsoft Celebrates 40th Anniversary
Thursday March 19, 2015 @04:36PM "Descent" Goes For a Crowdfunding Reboot (and a Linux Version)
Saturday March 07, 2015 @02:18PM Ask Slashdot: Best Strategies For Teaching Kids CS Skills With Basic?
Monday March 02, 2015 @10:12PM Games Workshop At 40: How They Brought D&D To Britain
Tuesday February 24, 2015 @09:42AM Is Sega the Next Atari?
Thursday February 19, 2015 @12:43PM 1950s Toy That Included Actual Uranium Ore Goes On Display At Museum
Sunday January 25, 2015 @04:47PM A Call That Made History, 100 Years Ago Today
Sunday January 25, 2015 @01:39PM Ask Slashdot: Is Pascal Underrated?
Saturday January 24, 2015 @05:45PM Ask Slashdot: Where Can You Get a Good 3-Button Mouse Today?
Thursday January 22, 2015 @11:28AM The Untold Story of the Invention of the Game Cartridge
Thursday January 22, 2015 @10:19AM User Plea Means EISA Support Not Removed From Linux
Tuesday January 20, 2015 @10:23AM NJ Museum Revives TIROS Satellite Dish After 40 Years
Sunday January 18, 2015 @06:40PM Nintendo Power Glove Used To Create 'Robot Chicken'
Tuesday January 13, 2015 @10:39AM Microsoft Ends Mainstream Support For Windows 7
Sunday January 11, 2015 @08:11PM Rare Recalled NES Game Stadium Events On Ebay For $99,000
Thursday December 25, 2014 @01:10PM US Navy Sells 'Top Gun' Aircraft Carrier For One Penny
Tuesday December 16, 2014 @09:23AM The Joker Behind the Signetics 25120 Write-Only Memory Chip Hoax
Friday December 12, 2014 @08:42PM Apple's iPod Classic Refuses To Die
Thursday December 11, 2014 @10:04AM Dad Makes His Kid Play Through All Video Game History In Chronological Order
Thursday December 04, 2014 @12:14PM Woz Downplays the Significance of Apple's Startup Garage
Tuesday December 02, 2014 @09:51AM Microsoft's Age-Old Image Library 'Clip Art' Is No More
Friday November 28, 2014 @02:54AM Edsac Goes Live, At UK's National Museum of Computing
Monday November 17, 2014 @06:52PM Real Steampunk Computer Brought Back To Life
Saturday November 15, 2014 @10:11AM R. A. Montgomery, Creator of the "Choose Your Own Adventure" Books, Dead At 78
Thursday November 06, 2014 @11:43AM Landfill Copies of Atari's 'E.T.' End Up On eBay
Thursday October 23, 2014 @11:32AM Apple 1 Sells At Auction For $905,000
Wednesday October 22, 2014 @11:23AM Xerox Alto Source Code Released To Public
Monday October 20, 2014 @05:37PM GNU Emacs 24.4 Released Today
Thursday October 09, 2014 @08:32AM The Greatest Keyboard Ever Made
Thursday October 02, 2014 @02:27PM End of an Era: After a 30 Year Run, IBM Drops Support For Lotus 1-2-3
Thursday July 31, 2014 @03:37PM HP Gives OpenVMS New Life and Path To X86 Port
Tuesday July 01, 2014 @08:32AM Grandmother Buys Old Building In Japan And Finds 55 Classic Arcade Cabinets
Sunday June 29, 2014 @03:55PM EDSAC Diagrams Rediscovered
Saturday June 28, 2014 @08:26AM Ask Slashdot: Is It Feasible To Revive an Old Linux PC Setup?
Friday June 27, 2014 @07:44PM 2600 Distributor Withholds Money, Magazine's Future In Limbo
Monday June 23, 2014 @07:35PM How Disney Built and Programmed an Animatronic President
Friday June 20, 2014 @07:30AM After 47 Years, Computerworld Ceases Print Publication
Tuesday June 17, 2014 @02:34AM Homebrew Cray-1
Monday June 09, 2014 @10:45PM Recommendations For Classic Superhero Comic Collections?
Friday June 06, 2014 @09:28PM Tetris Turns 30
Sunday June 01, 2014 @12:42PM Grace Hopper Documentary Edges on Successful Crowdfunding
Saturday May 31, 2014 @03:40PM After the Sun (Microsystems) Sets, the Real Stories Come Out
Tuesday May 27, 2014 @12:51PM 50 Years Later, MIT Looks Back At AI and Networking Pioneer Project MAC
Thursday April 24, 2014 @09:26AM Previously Unknown Warhol Works Recovered From '80s Amiga Disks
Tuesday April 08, 2014 @08:40AM Meet the Diehards Who Refuse To Move On From Windows XP
Monday April 07, 2014 @02:05AM Fifty Years Ago IBM 'Bet the Company' On the 360 Series Mainframe
Tuesday April 01, 2014 @11:48PM The Inside Story of Gmail On Its Tenth Anniversary
Wednesday March 05, 2014 @09:17PM Website Simulates Amiga OS
Tuesday March 04, 2014 @10:33AM The Ephemerality and Reality of the Jetpack
Tuesday March 04, 2014 @09:52AM Merlin's Magic: The Inside Story of the First Mobile Game
Tuesday February 25, 2014 @09:26AM Harold Ramis Dies At 69
Sunday February 23, 2014 @04:01PM Nostalgic For the ZX Spectrum? Soon You Can Play With a New One
Tuesday January 28, 2014 @01:21PM IBM's PC Junior Turns 30, Too
Sunday January 26, 2014 @02:51PM Watch Steve Jobs Demo the Mac, In 1984
Saturday January 25, 2014 @03:13PM Schiller Says Apple Is the Last PC Maker From the Mac Era, Forgets About HP
Friday January 24, 2014 @07:04PM Apple Macintosh Turns 30
Tuesday December 31, 2013 @02:57AM Archive.org Hosts Massive Collection of MAME ROMs
Saturday December 28, 2013 @04:13PM Prince of Persia Level Editor 'Apoplexy' Reaches 2.0
Tuesday December 10, 2013 @08:53AM The Real Story of Hacking Together the Commodore C128
Friday November 22, 2013 @09:24PM The Art of Apple, In Pictures
Tuesday November 12, 2013 @12:45PM World War II's Last Surviving Doolittle Raiders Make Their Final Toast
Thursday November 07, 2013 @04:28PM Internet Archive's San Francisco Home Badly Damaged By Fire
Saturday November 02, 2013 @01:42PM Microspotting: Inside the Microsoft Archives
Friday October 25, 2013 @06:30PM The Internet Archive Switches To HTTPS Connections By Default
Sunday October 06, 2013 @01:17AM Over 100 Missing Episodes of Doctor Who Located
Thursday October 03, 2013 @10:46AM Finding a Tech Museum For Your Beloved Retired Computer(s)
Tuesday October 01, 2013 @07:41AM Everything You Needed To Know About the Internet In May, 1994
Friday August 30, 2013 @07:16PM BT Prepares To Pull Plug On Dial-Up
Monday August 26, 2013 @12:11AM Linux 3.11-rc7 Release Celebrates 22 Years of Linux
Thursday August 08, 2013 @11:11AM Omni Magazine To Reboot
Tuesday August 06, 2013 @09:13AM The History of The Oregon Trail
Friday July 26, 2013 @07:26PM Windows NT Turns 20
Thursday July 25, 2013 @08:26AM Ask Slashdot: Keeping Digital Media After Imaging?
Sunday July 14, 2013 @10:15PM In India, the Dot Dash Is Done
Sunday June 30, 2013 @03:18AM The Father of Civilization: Profile of Sid Meier
Friday June 28, 2013 @09:16PM Yahoo Puts AltaVista To Death
Wednesday June 26, 2013 @11:36AM Cray X-MP Simulator Resurrects Piece of Computer History
Friday June 21, 2013 @10:47PM 65 Years Ago, Manchester's 'Baby' Ran Electronically Stored Program
Saturday June 08, 2013 @01:15PM Gaming Roots: MUD and the Birth of MMOs
Sunday June 02, 2013 @06:16PM Salvaging E.T. In Software, Instead of New Mexico
Saturday June 01, 2013 @05:11PM Will Your Video Game Collection Appreciate Over Time?
Thursday May 23, 2013 @12:54PM Ethernet Turns 40
Tuesday May 21, 2013 @08:40AM Goodbye, Lotus 1-2-3
Tuesday May 14, 2013 @08:42AM Cosmos Remake Coming To Fox In 2014
Tuesday April 30, 2013 @09:41AM CERN Celebrates 20 Years of an Open Web (and Rebuilds 1st Web Page)
Thursday April 25, 2013 @12:10PM Texas Company's Antique Computers Are For Production, Not Display
Sunday April 07, 2013 @07:21PM LucasArts Employees Hold Wake & Eulogy; Vader Still Roams
Sunday April 07, 2013 @12:14PM Extended TeX: Past, Present, and Future
Thursday April 04, 2013 @09:43AM Rare Docs Show How Apple Created Apple II DOS
Tuesday April 02, 2013 @10:07AM Alan Kay Says iPad Betrays Xerox PARC Vision
Saturday March 23, 2013 @11:29AM Meet the Gamers Keeping Retro Consoles Alive
Monday March 18, 2013 @05:12PM Villians & Vigilantes Creators Win Lawsuit, Rights To Game
Thursday March 14, 2013 @04:29PM Solaris Machine Shut Down After 3737 Days of Uptime
Tuesday March 12, 2013 @08:54AM Don't Write Them Off: A Palm Retrospective
Sunday March 10, 2013 @01:47AM Multimorphic Teases Open Source Multi-Game Pinball
Saturday March 09, 2013 @04:08AM Computer History Museum Wants to Preserve Minitel History
Thursday March 07, 2013 @05:02PM Cherry's New Keyboard Switches Emulate IBM Model M Feel
Friday February 15, 2013 @08:49AM For Your Inspection: Source Code For Photoshop 1.0
Tuesday February 05, 2013 @10:25AM The History of Visual Development Environments
Friday January 04, 2013 @08:14PM Catch Up Via Video With World of Commodore 2012
Friday January 04, 2013 @08:05PM World of Commodore 2012 Videos Published
Thursday January 03, 2013 @10:19AM Elite Looks Set To Make a Comeback
Thursday January 03, 2013 @10:16AM Nokia N9: the World's Most Underrated Smartphone?
Wednesday December 26, 2012 @01:53PM Debian m68k Port Resurrected
Sunday December 23, 2012 @11:22AM Has Lego Sold Out?
Thursday December 13, 2012 @11:13AM Current Radio Rules Mean Sinclair ZX Spectrum Wouldn't Fly Today
Thursday December 06, 2012 @03:07PM Ask Slashdot: Old Technology Coexisting With New?
Saturday December 01, 2012 @10:29PM Nintendo Power's Final Cover
Saturday December 01, 2012 @06:03PM Mitsubishi Drops Bulky DLP TVs: End of an Era
Saturday November 24, 2012 @12:30AM 1976 Polaroids of an Apple-1 Resurface
Monday October 22, 2012 @07:44AM Huston Huddleston Wants You To Help Save the Star Trek TNG Set
Tuesday October 16, 2012 @11:16AM Endeavour Arrives At California Science Center
Tuesday October 16, 2012 @10:54AM These 19th Century Postcards Predicted Our Future
Thursday August 30, 2012 @08:32AM The History of the Floppy Disk
Thursday August 30, 2012 @08:32AM Meet the Very First Rover To Land On Mars