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Tech NewsGadgetsI Miss My Soviet Diafilm Projector
By the time I was born in 1987, the filmstrip projector was already vintage: a musty, overheating box with a brittle lightbulb glowing yellow out of the vent. For the Soviet Union public, the once widely popular tech could not compete with VHS, but I was not interested in VHS. I preferred to hole up … Continued
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Tech NewsGadgetsI Miss Watching Horribly Compressed Movies on My Game Boy
Recently the internet has stared in disbelief at people horribly compressing movies so they can fit on outdated tech, including Shrek squeezed onto a 1.4 MB floppy disk, and Tenet smooshed across five GBA cartridges. But as horrible as these viewing experiences seem, for a short period of time watching TV shows on the Game … Continued
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Tech NewsGadgetsI Miss My Family’s Collection of CRT TVs
“Wow, you guys have so many TVs.” That’s what my friends would say when they’d come over to my house in elementary and middle school. It was a 3-bedroom English Tudor with a basement and attic, and in almost every room there was a boxy CRT TV. They were all sorts of sizes, and the biggest … Continued
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Tech NewsGadgetsI Miss My First PC
Most of my early childhood memories are filled with vivid flashes of new and unusual experiences, like the time I climbed out of my crib and landed flat on my ass. Just a few years later, I remember using my first Windows PC that solidified the trajectory of the rest of my life. It was … Continued
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Tech NewsGadgetsI Miss My First Real Digital Camera, a 3.3-Megapixel Wonder
The Game Boy Camera might have been my first foray into digital photography, but my first real digital camera—the one that taught me the basics of photography and digital post-processing—was also one of the first true prosumer digital cameras to hit the market in 2000: the Canon PowerShot G1. Although my uncle had a basement … Continued
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Tech NewsGadgetsI Miss Experimenting With My Grandparents’ Old Sony Handycam
It’s hard to miss a gadget the size of a shoebox when the smartphone in my pocket outperforms it in every way possible. But I miss my grandparents’ ‘90s-era Sony Handycam and the fun videography experiments my siblings and I concocted in an effort to avoid being pushed out the door to play outside. In … Continued
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Tech NewsGadgetsI Miss My Walkman and My Secret Cassette Collection
In the summer of 1997, the only reason I survived a family road trip through western Canada was my trusty Walkman. It wasn’t my dad’s Walkman, which was adult, boring, and gray. While I can’t quite find it on Google, mine was teal with hot pink accents—sort of like this Sanyo MGR78 though not quite. … Continued
