COMPUTERS

Scientists Recreate Dreams With YouTube Videos

Mind reading used to belong to the realms of sci-fi books and comic strips. But in 2011, a team of scientists from UC Berkeley discovered a way to construct YouTube videos from a viewer’s brain activity.

More On the Apollo Guidance Computer from 1965

Watch Steve Ballmer Promote Windows 1.0

How IBM Watson Learns

Creating the Windows 95 Startup Sound

Using Your New Commodore 64 (in 1982)

In past weeks, I've brought you lots of retro videos about computers, but this one is a little different. Here we have a full two-hour video explaining in near-excruciating depth the inner workings of the Commodore 64.

5 Other Big Sites Bought by Yahoo!

Vintage Tandy Computer Ads

What Tax Prep Software Looked Like in 1991

How to Use Email (in 1997)

In 1997, the idea that you could access email (specifically Hotmail) via a web browser was pretty revolutionary. "Even attachments show up!" exclaims the host in this charming segment of 'The Computer Chronicles.'

What Portable Computers Were Like in 1987

Our definition of portability has changed over the years, from 1975's IBM 5100 (what we used to call a "luggable" computer) all the way to today's ultrabooks, which are finally actually "notebook" sized -- and still have halfway decent battery life.

The Best Video Game Consoles (of 1990)

What the Internet Looked Like in 1995

In this retro episode of 'Computer Chronicles,' the team goes in-depth on "The Internet," a trendy topic in 1995.

The Video Toaster 4000

Google Celebrates UK's WWII Codebreakers

Do You Know How to Code?

Every "One More Thing" from Steve Jobs

Lotus 1-2-3, Three Decades On

72 Scenes from the Portland Retro Gaming Expo, 2012

On September 30, I spent a geektastic day at the Portland Retro Gaming Expo. I arrived early and got a look at many booths before they opened (later, they would be swarmed by thousands of attendees). For much of the day I was one of several referees for

Dot-WTF? These Top-Level Domains Could Be Coming Your Way

In June, ICANN announced that over 1,400 new generic top-level domain names (in other words, .wedding, .sex, and .lawyer) were under consideration to join the familiar .com and its kin. Weirdness has ensued. A Brief Technical Lesson In the world of we

11 Quirky Code Names for Apple Products

Apple uses secret internal code names for many of its products before they're released. Over the years, they've come up with some really weird ones -- including one that led to multiple lawsuits. 1. "Carl Sagan"/"Butt-Head Astronomer" - Power Macintosh

The Weird World of Country-Specific Web Domains

As the dot-com bubble reached its peak in 2000, Internet entrepreneurs faced a problem: every word in the dictionary had been registered as a dot-com domain name. So their bold new innovation was to register domains ending in something other than dot-co

10 Screensavers of Yore

Here's a roundup of screensavers from the '90s, when they were delightfully corny, 3D graphics meant "the future," and flying toasters invaded our dreams. Enjoy!

What's Wrong With PROTECT IP and SOPA?

You may have heard about some new bills making their way through the U.S. Congress, related to piracy on the internet. But what are they and what's the big deal? Here's a simple guide to what the laws are and why so many internet nerds (like myself) are

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