Free chapter from the eBook Shareware Heroes. Plus the website is amazing.
Four-Byte Burger
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History
A Brief Compendium of Vintage Opium Underworlds
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Satire in the Age of Murdoch and Trump
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3Dfx Voodoo 2 on a Modern PC
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The DOOM Effect
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Tape Cassette Inserts
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3dfx’s Unreleased Voodoo5 6000 Quad-GPU Card
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This review looks at the unreleased 3dfx Voodoo 5 6000 video card — except it was hand-made by an enthusiast who specializes in retro hardware resurrections. It’s a quad-GPU monster that competed with the likes of NVIDIA back in the day. This piece looks at the history of 3dfx, spanning the late 90s to early 2000s, and tells the story of the company’s rapid, fiery rise and collapse.
Sony Design Gallery
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Meet Me In The Bathroom
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Probably the best music documentary I’ve seen since The Punk Singer.
Something Pretty Right: A History of Visual Basic
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Coolest website i’ve seen a quite a while.
Time Traveler by Merriam-Webster: 1981
merriam-webster.comI Made an Internet Time Machine
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I would like to be paid like a plumber
news.lettersofnote.comIn November of 1992, shortly before they formally agreed on his involvement, Albini wrote to Nirvana and laid bare his philosophy in a pitch letter that is fascinating from start to finish.