retro-tech

Here's the deal: Boing Boing has come into possession of some wicked footage of an anonymous Atari Computer Camp excursion that has everything you could ever want from grainy stock video: namely, yellowed and over-saturated money shots of retro-tech, and a bevy of over-eager and still-innocent pre-teens banging out BASIC to make crossword crosses out of the words Van Halen (no joke!) and gawping at the awesome limitless power and future of computers.

Boing Boing 2009

So, imagine Pesco talking with one of those artists he blogs about, or Cory wandering around in Tokyo with a handheld camera pointing out cool stuff he's seeing that day, or Joel Johnson from Boing Boing Gadgets talking about about little infrared controlled helicopters or retro-tech radios -- oh hey, wait!

- Boing Boing 2007

Besides, this is more than made up for with the way cool retro-tech.

REVIEW: Crystal Rain by Tobias S. Buckell 2006

These retro-tech playing cards feature images from the sadly departed Commodore Amiga personal computer, a dead media competitor to Windows and Mac OS machines from the GUI Cambrian Era.

Boing Boing: August 13, 2006 - August 19, 2006 Archives 2006

BBC TV now devotes much of its "20th Century Roadshow" to retro-tech gems, and Christie's recently auctioned a cache of rare computer artifacts -- for $700,000.

PERISCOPE 2007

Go check out Eric's brilliant illustrations and ideas for a retro-tech version of classic Star Wars.

This is brilliant and I want more, please David Campbell 2007

Go check out Eric's brilliant illustrations and ideas for a retro-tech version of classic Star Wars.

Archive 2007-03-01 David Campbell 2007

How fun would it be to spend a weekend with these retro-tech adventurers?

Boing Boing: September 19, 2004 - September 25, 2004 Archives 2004

Seems oddly retro-tech, a '50s-cum-21st-Century wet nightmare, not unlike a giant machine built out of old tires belching dime-store naphtha on a poster of George W. Bush jacking off.

Birthday Sperm « Skid Roche 2003

We look at retro-tech, "lost" technology, and the make-do, improvised "street tech" of village artisans and tradespeople from around the globe.

MAKE Magazine 2010