Tag: tech history
A Nerd History Media Fail and a Couple Nerd History Media Wins
August is notorious for being the doldrums for tech news. On the Mac side, any tech announced at...
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Technology Tuesdays: Apple Tried to Bury It’s Past Failure
I love it when I hear someone complain that anyone who spends more than $500 for a computer is...
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Tech Tuesday: The Myth of Open Architecture & “Repairability”
As I’ve said on more than a few occasions, I didn’t get into tech because I loved tech or gadgets....
Read MoreVideo Fridays: Macintosh | Apple’s Most Successful Failure
More tech history, boys and girls, more Apple Macintosh history, that it. I never owned any of the...
Read MoreJBB’s DRP for 5/3/23: Above the Noise: What Really Happens to old Electronics?
How many of you have heard of “planned obsolescence,” where something is created with limited...
Read MoreVideo Fridays: Springboard: The Secret History of the First Real Smartphone
I was an early adopter of the Handspring PDA and bought my Visor in blue in 1999. I learned to...
Read MoreVideo Fridays: Inside the flop that changed Apple forever
I love documentaries and documentaries about the early PC revolution are near and dear to my heart...
Read MoreVideo Fridays: The Birth of Basic
Taking a slight break from music videos and such, this video popped up in my feed and I was...
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Is the Watch the Next Big (Tech) Thing
Lots of buzz about the Watch, as we quickly approach Apple’s official entrance into the...
Read MoreWitnessing History: The Best Steve Jobs Keynote
Just over eight-years ago I was in the auditorium on January 9, 2007 and witnessed history when Steve Jobs introduced the iPhone to the world. It seems weird that this happened only eight-years ago, and at the same time hard to...
Read MoreTWiT Pundits Poke Fun – Confused By Apple iPad Ad
In his defense Chief-TWiT, Leo Laporte, calls himself a pundit, who comments on the news, and not...
Read MoreOne Last Thing: The PBS Steve Jobs videos
I know that I’m venturing dangerously close to Steve Jobs Biography overload, with my last...
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