PinnedRetro Tech Show·Sep 9My first year on Medium: 122 articles, 260K words, 64K reads and a 4-book seriesMedium is the best platform I’ve joined in my life.A response icon13A response icon13
PinnedRetro Tech Show·Nov 5, 2025Retro Tech Show: memoir chronicling the last 50 years of technologyTurn off your devices and let’s look at the story of how it all began.A response icon3A response icon3
Retro Tech Show·22h ago[1992] Tech before apps: the little laminated cards that made you feel you belongedThe 1990s was the Golden Age of the membership card.A response icon2A response icon2
Retro Tech Show·Sep 10[2026] The Game Boy is 40. So why are developers still making games for it?The Game Boy should be dead. Instead, it’s getting new games.A response icon4A response icon4
Retro Tech Show·Sep 3[2026] Lagom: the Swedish phone that blocks all social, dating, XXX and trackingA fearless Swedish upstart has transformed the smartphone.A response icon11A response icon11
Retro Tech Show·Aug 30[1992] Game Boy: the little device that freed gaming from the TVGaming went from boy to man at the same time I did.A response icon6A response icon6
Retro Tech Show·Aug 26[1991] The 1990s miniaturisation revolution: when tech fit in your pocketWhy tech went handheld in the 1990s.A response icon2A response icon2
Retro Tech Show·Aug 25[1991] Year One: the first year of the World Wide Web — the Internet in 1991Part 2 — getting the Web off the ground.A response icon5A response icon5
Retro Tech Show·Aug 20[1991] Linus & Linux: the ‘radical’ Finnish hobby project that conquered the worldA classic “where there’s a will, there’s a way” tale.A response icon5A response icon5
InRead or Die — HQbyRetro Tech Show·Aug 19[1991] Cut & Paste: Demystifying How Graphic Design Was Done Before ComputersYou weren’t a graphic designer if you couldn’t draw.A response icon32A response icon32
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