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Senior AI Reporter, Ars Technica. Tech Historian. Bylines Fast Company / The Atlantic / Retronauts. http://www.benjedwards.com Founder http://Vintagecomputing.com

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Benj Edwards @benjedwards.com · Nov 8

Someone suggested I start a retro tech blog—I already did in 2005! 😁 www.vintagecomputing.com

560+ more works: www.benjedwards.com/works.php

Culture of Tech podcast: www.thecultureoftech.com

Retro works for HTG: www.howtogeek.com/826448/best-...

MIT Press book: mitpress.mit.edu/978026204506...

Vintage Computing and Gaming

VC&G is a blog about computer, video game, and technology history founded in 2005 and run by Benj Edwards.

www.vintagecomputing.com

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Benj Edwards @benjedwards.com · 13h

Glowpods

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Yay

Legion Gaming Podcast @legiongamingpod.bsky.social · 14h

It really is a handsome shelfpiece and even more awesome that the digital version is free!

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Benj Edwards @benjedwards.com · 22h

haha

Benj Edwards @benjedwards.com · 22h

It's free but also if you want to buy it anyway to have a handsome shelfpiece, that would be cool too! 😁

MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social · 23h

👀 We heard Nintendo is bringing the Virtual Boy back to gamers. While we can't get you the new add-on, the story behind this unique platform is completely free!

@jzagal.bsky.social & @benjedwards.com's "Seeing Red" is available #OpenAccess: mitpress.mit.edu/978026204506...

Hands holding a copy of "Seeing Red: Nintendo's Virtual Boy" by Jose P. Zagal and Benj Edwards. The cover depicts a Mario game in play in black and red pixels.

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Benj Edwards @benjedwards.com · 22h

As much as it looks like something AI would cook up, this is actually a real product

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Benj Edwards @benjedwards.com · 22h

What can I say? It's perfect

Photo of a box for "MULTI-FUNCTION TV/RADIO LANTERN" that is real!! It's a flashlight with a black and white TV set in one unit.

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Benj Edwards @benjedwards.com · 1d

Yep glad you are focusing on that!

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And the whole thing with knives as fingers has fallen out of fashion because of that maniac

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 1d

Listen to the response to this and look how easy it is to say it.

Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine.bsky.social · 1d

We have armed secret police kidnapping people off the street based on the color of their skin.

When we win: we will haul them before a Senate committee. The masks will come off. There will be consequences.

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Benj Edwards @benjedwards.com · 1d

Hello! What’s the report about? Sounds cool

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My dogs are very interested in the techniques of food preparation

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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 2d

Look, the purpose of Tron movies isn’t to make money. It’s to teach us all what it’d be like to be inside the computer.

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Benj Edwards @benjedwards.com · 2d

It’s a cautionary tale about eating glowsticks

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Benj Edwards @benjedwards.com · 2d

Yeah I vaguely remember there is some contest among water treatment plants in NC at least

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Tyler Dukes @mtdukes.bsky.social · 2d

FWIW, this is a claim some municipalities here in NC make.

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Benj Edwards @benjedwards.com · 2d

Me, randomly while driving: “I wonder which city has the best tasting municipal water in the world”

My kid in passenger seat: “Are these the kinds of things you think about, daddy?”

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Benj Edwards @benjedwards.com · 2d

This album is the perfect gateway drug into the 1980s/90s Jeff Lynne-averse

Orbison, Harrison, Wilburys, Armchair Theatre

Lora Kolodny @lorak.bsky.social · 2d

Tom Petty's Full Moon Fever is end to end classic rock greatness. But... Zombie Zoo (last track on the record) is sort of random - sounds like a kids' Halloween ditty but nope. It's a cultural history and appreciation of L.A. goth, vintage, retro kids and their meandering nightclub (pre-raves).

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Benj Edwards @benjedwards.com · 2d

Yeah it’s an amazing album!

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Tom Happ @axiomverge.bsky.social · 2d

I'm curious as to what the industry was like to work in during the early days. Today it seems like most of us grew up playing games and that's our motivation, but in the 70s and early 80s, was it more hoping you stumble on something people may like, not even knowing if you like it yourself?

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🦐Lauren🏳️‍⚧️ @superlauren.world · 3d

Watchin a tas run with grandpa

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Benj Edwards @benjedwards.com · 3d

I’m getting better!

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Yes

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This sounds really cool

jessamyn @librarian.bsky.social · 3d

A Short Bright Flash by Theresa Levitt, a history of lighthouses and the way the Fresnel lens revolutionized all of it. More dramatic than you'd expect!

Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · Aug 21

In response to this, name the last book that you read that you would recommend.

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Benj Edwards @benjedwards.com · 3d

Was reading up on an in-lab sleep study and the doctor's instructions say, "Although we record many physiologic parameters and can tell when you are dreaming, we cannot monitor the content of your dreams"

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Benj Edwards @benjedwards.com · 3d

I’m still around!

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