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This 1998 PDA Review Video Shows How Gadget Design Has Stalled
Diversity in the gadget realm is a good thing, and it'd be nice to see a bit of risk make a comeback.
"Are These Guys Just Having Fun?" Watch This 1990s Video About Hacking
Hackers, the phantoms of the opera of the Internet, have had an enormous impact on the rich narrative of our online reality. The video below, the first episode of "Net Cafe" from 1996, begins by describing "the first time the CIA website got hacked...
Watch These Four Suits Pitch Their Terrible Dotcom-Era Startup Ideas
I'm a big fan of Net Cafe, a show that mirrored the rise and fall of the neon, Zima-swilling dotcom era. This episode, from 2001, comes from near the end of the show's run, and as such it's a brilliant look into the coming downfall of Silicon Valley...
What the Digital Piracy Debate Looked Like in 1985
As far as the corporate lobbyists in Washington are concerned, the spectacularly reckless anti-piracy measures being introduced under "SOPA and PROTECT-IP":http://motherboard.vice.com/2011/11/17/the-internet-is-fighting-hollywood-s-blacklist-bill-by...
