tech AOL ends dial-up service Rob Beschizza

nostalgia Listen to almost 50 years of startup sounds Gail Sherman

Technology Italian company pays $1.5B for America's most embarrassing email domain Ellsworth Toohey

Boing Boing Gadgets Microsoft put one of its biggest upgrades behind a $199 paywall, but right now, it's only $13 Boing Boing's Shop

Technology Listen to the sounds of dial-up internet modems Ellsworth Toohey

deaths AOL to end dial-up internet service Rob Beschizza

privacy "The entire business model built on harvesting user data could become obsolete" with Fully Homomorphic Encryption Ellsworth Toohey

gadgets San Francisco metro says goodbye to 5.25" floppies Rob Beschizza

mistakes Implementing a "disturbingly modern" MS-DOS BBS Rob Beschizza

Boing Boing Gadgets This brand new Apple Mac mini is here for our Back-to-School Sale Boing Boing's Shop

AI ChatGPT but in the 1980s Rusty Blazenhoff

Vintage Weird Hop aboard the "Internet Cruise" — an ancient tutorial on how to use the web Popkin

art These vintage computer book cover graphics are a dial-up wormhole back to the 1980s David Pescovitz

websites Space Jam website updated for first time since 1996, is now bloated usability disaster that takes 20 seconds to load Rob Beschizza

History Modem noise spectrogram Rob Beschizza

kentucky One of the poorest, most desperate regions in Appalachia is experiencing an economic miracle thanks to fiber run by a New Deal-era co-op Cory Doctorow

History Paleocomputing watch: Tech magazines cover the BBS scene Cory Doctorow

books Libby is my very most favorite app because free books Jason Weisberger

new york The story of how Buffalo's oldest, best-established Black neighborhood was literally wiped off the map is a perfect parable about systemic bias — UPDATED Cory Doctorow

dogs Dog finally convinced to howl Rob Beschizza