This is a clip of percussionist Joe Porter playing the Windows XP shutdown theme on 15 different percussion instruments in a row, accompanied by a string quartet. It brought back memories. Mostly, of my computer shutting down in college when I was in the middle of doing something important. “Like

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

Crochet artist Nicole Nikolich recently completed this double-sided Windows home screen blanket, with Windows 95 on one side, and Windows 11 on the other. It took Nicole over two months and a respectable 104,800 stitches to complete the 8-pound, 5′ x 3.5′ blanket. And, I think I speak for everyone

This is a visualization bar-charting the best selling video game consoles worldwide from 1978 – 2022. The Atari 2600 was the heavyweight early on, but then Nintendo came along and tore the gold medal right off its neck with the NES and Game Boy. Eventually, the Playstation 2 would take

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

These are two videos of South Korean a cappella group Maytree performing Windows and iPhone sound effects with nothing but their mouths. Most impressive. For reference, when I was in business school my classmates and I once passed an egg down the line using nothing but spoons in our mouths.