The Rise of Nintendo: A Story in 8 Bits
A long excerpt from Blake J. Harris’ new book, Console Wars, which I am very much looking forward to.
A long excerpt from Blake J. Harris’ new book, Console Wars, which I am very much looking forward to.
I’m not sure how I haven’t linked to this before, but here it is now. This needs to exist and I’m so glad it does.
From the indispensable blog of Jess Nevins: Still another Gopher of distinction was Happy Jack Mulraney, so called because he always appeared to be laughing. However, his smile was caused by a partial paralysis of the muscles of his face. In reality Happy Jack was a verjuiced person and very sensitive about his deformity; when […]
We’ll never really know, but Eddie Cicotte said so…
Jason Scott: Yahoo! are about to delete all user-generated content on Yahoo! Video and that is really busting my crank, as well as the crank of a lot of people that have joined Archive Team to rescue it. We’re now to the point that the whole process is pretty smooth, and we’re getting in the […]
Old documents, unreleased game reviews, and more from a games reviewer. It’s a formatted simply, easy to read, and made up of neat little bits and bobs.
Doctor Sparkle, the mad genius behind Chrontendo, mentions the GDRI several times in his videos, and it’s an awesome resource for information on… game developers. The bent is toward older companies and projects because those are the ones we generally know the least about.
Historian Jason Scott walks through the many-years story of software piracy and touches on the tired debates before going into a completely different direction – the interesting, informative, hilarious and occasionally obscene world of inter-pirate-group battles. A multi-media extravaganza of threats, CSI-level accusations and evidence trails, decades of insider lingo, and demonstrations of how the […]
Describing the technical workings of the Atari 2600, it is not an emulator, or even really a “how to,” but more like a… Documentary App. I love this kind of thing. It is Volume One in what will become a series, and if you don’t buy this you are an asshole.
You were responsible or many of the most retch-inducing websites on the internet, and you only got worse with time. We’ll miss you. xkcd is GeoCities-ified (saved image).
An absolutely astonishing demonstration of a vector drawing application from 1962.
Jason’s acquired about 5 years worth of expired threads from the internet’s House of Awful Shit and Meme Factory, 4chan. Yes, this is culturally important. Just trust me. via Andy Baio.
Woof, this is a big deal. There is a lot of culture and history in these sites.
Philip Greenspun: Our literary culture is impoverished when every idea is stretched or amputated to fit the Procrustean bed made up by magazine and book publishers. When an author runs out of relevant stuff to say after 20 or 30 pages, that’s how long the essay should be. Quoting the same passage that Gruber did, […]
WebRing was started by a co-founder of DreamHost. Then sold to GeoCities, which was then sold to Yahoo, and, well, read the article. Josh thinks it’s a sort of micrososm of the web: It went from a tiny ad-free community service, to hyper-growth, to showing ads, to being acquired for an INSANE price, to being […]
The Sonic Bible was an internal document created by SOA to provide a localised history and overall philosophy for Sonic and the Sonic universe. It is apparently not based on the Japanese history. The series bible for Sonic The Hedgehog from Sega’s launch of the first Sonic game in the US.
My name is Phil Nelson and I make beautiful objects for a troubled world in CSS, HTML, and JavaScript. I'm a designer / developer at Occipital.
Hey. What're you doing all the way down here? You get lost? Just looking around? Cool. I like you.