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- 1What old computer magazines predicted about the future●The future in old computer magazines (1984–2004)
A retrospective essay revisits computer magazines from 1984 to 2004 to see how their writers imagined the future of technology. Readers are sharing memories of the era's computing culture and comparing the period's predictions about personal computers, the internet and emerging tech with what actually happened two decades later.
- 2Anil Dash revisits the joy of programming on the Commodore 64●@ anildash on the fun of # Programming on the # Commodore # C64 . “Getting this program running is standard stuff — you
Technologist Anil Dash is sharing the pleasures of programming on the vintage Commodore 64, quoting how getting a program running was "standard stuff": reading a magazine article describing a game, then typing in a short BASIC loader printed on later pages. People are responding with nostalgia for the hands-on era when home computers demanded typing code by hand from print magazines.
- 3Dutch magazine interview from 1993 touts Amiga as art tool●In the Summer of 1993, around the time we were working on the Amiga version of Moon Child, I was interviewed in a Dutch
A developer recalls being interviewed by a Dutch magazine in the summer of 1993 while working on the Amiga version of Moon Child. In the interview, he promoted the computer as a tool for creating art, an idea that was not widely accepted at the time. He shared the story alongside images from the period, prompting nostalgia about the Amiga's early role in digital art.