Popular Nostalgia

The development of computers, and our recollection of it, can often age us. Remember when computers were more primitive? Explore that feeling here.

Long ago, before the internet was even really invented, or at least before it was available to people without bottle end glasses, there was no such thing as email. If people wanted to deliver a message on the spot, however, they did have an option. They could send a fax. To do this, you needed [...]

Where on Earth is Carmen Sandiego? was a Saturday morning cartoon series that was shown in the early nineties. It featured the adventures of Zack and Ivy, two teenage siblings who worked as ACME agents and, aided by the Chief, had to stop Carmen and her gang from stealing artifacts. Most children of the nineties [...]

Light years ahead in terms of technology, virtual reality children’s television series, Knightmare, was actually really scary. It was like a cross between a medieval re-enactment and a computer game. It would be really strange to take part in it as it literally was a walk through computer game -except some gammy actors would accost [...]

Presented by that-guy-off-Red-Dwarf, Craig Charles. Robot Wars was the arena for robots to do their best to try and blow each other up on TV. Especially funny when they tried to interview the uber-geeks backstage who would mumble and blurt out inappriopriate comments. The show’s own master robots sometimes came to a grisly end of [...]

At the end of the 1980s, in 1989 to be precise, Nintendo released the Gamboy, which was to become one of the greatest selling hand-held games consoles of all time. Looking back, the monochrome colour scheme and basic games – such as Tetris – seem quite quaint and antiquated, but at the time, we were [...]

During the late nineties, somebody started a rumour that got old the middle-age technophobes into something of a bind. Fear spread like the plague that everything electrical would explode when the countdown reached 2000. Just as people were buying revamped copies of The Artist Formerly Known As Prince (or squiggle) ‘s “We’re gonna party like [...]

Everyone remembers learning geometry, angles and degrees with one of these little fellas. The height of new technology, the teachers used to have to ask for help programming these futuristic floor robots. Along with MS-DOS and coding your own computer, Roamers remind me of basic computing days before the internet. It used to be a great [...]

Sonic the hedgehog launched the Sega Megadrive (aka the Sega Genesis in the states) into everyone’s living room. At least mine anyway. In the early 90s as a child you were either a NES or a Megadrive family. In my house, we got the Megadrive and must have spent hundreds of hours playing on Sonic [...]