This is a vintage video of renowned PC engineer (one of the twelve who developed the first IBM PC) and creator of the Ctrl-Alt-Del shortcut David Bradley zinging Bill Gates during a panel discussion. While discussing the Ctrl-Alt-Del shortcut, he says, “But I have to share the credit. I may

This is a video documenting launch day of the iMac at a CompUSA store in Alexandria, Virginia on August 15, 1998 — just over 24 years ago. The interviews with the Apple reps and customers are great. As my mom would say, it’s a real hoot. I remember when I

This is a 1992 commercial for the latest and greatest in spreadsheet applications: Microsoft Excel. In the ad, a businessdude makes a super shitty 4 x 4 spreadsheet on what appears to be the world’s first laptop that blows everybody’s minds and saves the day. Full disclosure: I hate, and

This is a video of South Korean acapella quintet MayTree (previously) performing a brief history of Windows startup sounds, including such bangers as Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 10, and Windows 11. Which was your favorite? Mine has been and always will be Windows XP. As

This is a clip of Fox 9 Minneapolis-St. Paul meteorologist Jennifer McDermed multiplying on screen and forming a psychedelic one-woman conga line due to a glitch in the Matrix. She briefly loses it before composing herself and continuing with the forecast as the graphics are restored to normal. Personally, I

Note: Hey guys I’ve been sick with a sickness the past few days that makes my head a cloud and difficult to even look at a computer screen. I’ll do what I can today but I’ll be back tomorrow after the doctor gives me the good stuff, which is what

This is a visualization created by MetaBallStudios (previously) of various computer storage sizes (eg megabyte, gigabyte, terabyte, and upward) if a single byte occupies a volume of one cubic millimeter (1mm3). Some more info while I try to estimate the total volume of my roommate’s horrible digital music collection if

Pocket monsters: there can never be enough of them. And now programmer Matthew Rayfield has created 3,000 more using language-based artificial intelligence models. Some more information about what he did while I choose Pikachu but we still lose the battle anyways because he didn’t choose me and a solid relationship